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(41,956 posts)jpak
(41,757 posts)Oh wait.
RVN VET71
(2,690 posts)Montgomery, Eisenhower, and DeGaulle all hanging out with a known communist. Seems like a clear link. No wonder Churchill was so upset. Just sayin'
captain queeg
(10,131 posts)He hung out with a lot of nazis after the war.
CatWoman
(79,294 posts)he needed the nazis to help him restore Germany.
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)my Uncle's son (my 2nd cousin, I think) found a pretty famous pic of Patton pointing with a crop and right next to him is a young Uncle Al. It was cool, to say the least.
Talitha
(6,579 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,923 posts)in Patton's army. I have no written proof, just family lore, but DO have an amazing German book that was obviously Hitler propaganda that he brought home.
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m570.l1313&_nkw=deutfchland+erwacht&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&_osacat=0&_odkw=deutchland+erwacht
It is not in "great" shape since it sat in his attic for 50+ years, but it is amazing to look through - and a "fold-out" (NO, not THAT kind!) that shows hundreds of thousands at a "rally" with Hitler speaking (and YES, it DOES remind me of BunkerBoy's rallies!).
One very unique thing about the book is that the "print/wording" of all of the pages was run, and then they "pasted" actual pictures all the way through the book to illustrate whatever was meant to be seen on that page. Yes, the book is filled with separate, glued-on pictures!
Number9Dream
(1,560 posts)Patton famously hated the Russians. If he witnessed Trump kissing Putin's ass, I imagine him coming back to personally kick Trump's ass.
CatWoman
(79,294 posts)I think he would have shot him.
brush
(53,758 posts)And most high ranking nazis were in jail awaiting trial, undercover or trying to get to Argentina.
he wanted to rearm the German army and attack the soviets...his thinking was that we would have to eventually fight them anyway and why not go for it then while we were already there and fully armed.
brush
(53,758 posts)Just a tad
tirebiter
(2,535 posts)Last edited Thu Sep 3, 2020, 11:53 AM - Edit history (1)
He was the only general to do so.
Aristus
(66,307 posts)n/t
tirebiter
(2,535 posts)Or was a part of liberating them? He like Truman was at his core very prejudiced but seeing the Black soldiers perform in combat they both felt the soldiers earned their equality.
Aristus
(66,307 posts)Let's just say we're all better off that he didn't survive long after the war. He's the kind we need for the ground game, and the type we should never have around when there's no fighting to be done.
liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)NoRoadUntravelled
(2,626 posts)monmouth4
(9,691 posts)Stinky The Clown
(67,776 posts)Hekate
(90,616 posts)rwsanders
(2,596 posts)He is to the far left and I don't see any mention of him on similar captioned pictures.
Hekate
(90,616 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,294 posts)I assumed it was de Gaulle; but it turns out it's General Jean-Marie de Lattre de Tassigny.
https://albumwar2.com/georgy-zhukov-dwight-eisenhower-bernard-montgomery-de-lattre-de-tassigny-in-berlin/
Judging by his position and uniform, the guy in the background is a Soviet aide to Zhukov.
rwsanders
(2,596 posts)BlueWavePsych
(2,635 posts)Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)DBoon
(22,350 posts)Just like they call the Civil War "The War of Yankee Aggression"
sandensea
(21,615 posts)But it's not too late.
Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)Since they were fighting "islamofascism".
Maybe that's why Chump sold them out to Erdogan.
bluboid
(560 posts)wryter2000
(46,025 posts)He was my president when I was a little kid. I wish we had Republicans like him now.
KS Toronado
(17,178 posts)Kaiserguy
(740 posts)it has been all down hill since then for the GOP
SharonAnn
(13,772 posts)FakeNoose
(32,610 posts)I'm sure of it!
wryter2000
(46,025 posts)"Military industrial complex," and wrote to his brother that politicians who wanted to dismantle Social Security were "stupid."
WyattKansas
(1,648 posts)Everyone presumes that it just means someone paying 90% instead of forcing reinvestment back into the country and American People, which allows them to keep ownership of that 90% rate. The Democratic Party has done a poor job of educating the American People about how it really works and comparing it to the slash and burn Republican rates destroys them.
MyOwnPeace
(16,923 posts)ANY RepubliCon giving this speech now - the Eisenhower WARNING about the Military/Industrial Complex.
No, not even Mittens would - lord knows he had his own pockets stuffed with gifts from the MIC.
Please, watch this - this man was a Republican!!!!!
Oh, how we have fallen...........
rwsanders
(2,596 posts)The cross of iron speech is better than any sermon I have ever heard in a church.
I think I'm going to get Amrose's history of Eisenhower soon. I was in New Orleans for 2 months for the BP spill and finished EVERYTHING in the National WW2 Memorial there. Read every sign, listened to every oral history. I want to go back to see the restored PT-305.
Anyway, the story I heard there was that Ambrose was interviewing Ike for the book, and Ike asked him where he was from. Ambrose said NOLA, and Ike asked if he had heard of Andrew Higgins. Ambrose said no. Ike said that Higgins was the man who won the war for us. So there is a room in the museum dedicated to the Higgins factory. I have a biography, but I'm saving it for when I complete a model of a Higgins PT (the 216).
certainot
(9,090 posts)Talitha
(6,579 posts)Acornsouth
(294 posts)Everytime!
TheFarseer
(9,319 posts)Where's Robert E Lee and Stonewall Jackson?
NCjack
(10,279 posts)Eyeball_Kid
(7,430 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,294 posts)Rumour has it she's now the head of the regional organization!
Elizabeth Windsor
Buckingham Palace
London
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AZ8theist
(5,447 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)aidbo
(2,328 posts)It comes out as muh garther.
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muriel_volestrangler
(101,294 posts)De Gaulle entered his wartime career as a political leader with tremendous liabilities. He had only a handful of haphazardly recruited political supporters and volunteers for what were to become the Free French Forces. He had no political status and was virtually unknown in both Britain and France. But he had an absolute belief in his mission and a conviction that he possessed the qualities of leadership. He was totally devoted to France and had the strength of character (or obstinacy, as it often appeared to the British) to fight for French interests as he saw them with all the resources at his disposal.
In his country, to the politicians on the political left, a career officer who was a practicing Roman Catholic was not an immediately acceptable political leader, while to those on the right he was a rebel against Pétain, who was a national hero and Frances only field marshal. Broadcasts from London, the action of the Free French Forces, and the contacts of resistance groups in France either with de Gaulles own organization or with those of the British secret services brought national recognition of his leadership; but full recognition by his allies came only after the liberation of Paris in August 1944.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-de-Gaulle-president-of-France
Zambero
(8,962 posts)I knew that DeGaulle had gone to England after France surrendered but was not aware that he was active in supporting the French Resistance during that time. If I can delete my post I will do so.
paleotn
(17,901 posts)Finally got around to reading Atkinson's The Guns at Last Light. The last volume in his liberation trilogy.