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   From: d@ray   
      
   † The Revd  wrote:   
   >   
   > Truer words were never written:   
   >   
   > "The day dawned clear and cold; lovely weather for killing Germans"   
   >   
   > General Patton's diary, Dec. 25 1944.   
      
   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.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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