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† The Revd <
fformby-smythe@gmail.com> wrote:
Truer words were never written:
What General Patton was saying about Jews? Oh yeah, right - "these people
do not understand toilets and refuse to use them except as repositories for
tin cans, garbage, and refuse . . . They decline, where practicable, to use latrines, preferring to relieve themselves on the floor."
He described in his diary one DP camp,
"where, although room existed, the Jews were crowded together to an
appalling extent, and in practically every room there was a pile of garbage
in one corner which was also used as a latrine. The Jews were only forced
to desist from their nastiness and clean up the mess by the threat of the
butt ends of rifles. Of course, I know the expression 'lost tribes of
Israel' applied to the tribes which disappeared -- not to the tribe of
Judah from which the current sons of bitches are descended. However, it is
my personal opinion that this too is a lost
tribe -- lost to all decency."
Patton's initial impressions of the Jews were not improved when he attended
a Jewish religious service at Eisenhower's insistence. His diary entry for September 17, 1945, reads in part:
"This happened to be the feast of Yom Kippur, so they were all collected in
a large, wooden building, which they called a synagogue. It behooved
General
Eisenhower to make a speech to them. We entered the synagogue, which was
packed with the greatest stinking bunch of humanity I have ever seen. When
we got about halfway up, the head rabbi, who was dressed in a fur hat
similar
to that worn by Henry VIII of England and in a surplice heavily embroidered
and very filthy, came down and met the General . . . The smell was so
terrible that I almost fainted and actually about three hours later lost my lunch as the result of remembering it."
These experiences and a great many others firmly convinced Patton that the
Jews were an especially unsavory variety of creature and hardly deserving
of all the
official concern the American government was bestowing on them.
Another September diary entry, following a demand from Washington that more German housing be turned over to Jews, summed up his feelings:
"Evidently the virus started by Morgenthau and Baruch of a Semitic revenge against all Germans is still working. Harrison (a U.S. State Department official) and his associates indicate that they feel German civilians
should be removed from houses for the purpose of housing Displaced Persons. There are two errors in this assumption. First, when we remove an
individual German we punish an individual German, while the punishment is
-- not intended for the individual but for the race.
Furthermore, it is against my Anglo-Saxon conscience to remove a person
from a house, which is a punishment, without due process of law. In the
second place, Harrison and his ilk believe that the Displaced Person is a
human being, which he is not, and this applies particularly to the Jews,
who are lower than animals."
LOWER THAN ANIMALS
Truer words were never written.
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