“You Want Luxury? Look at This!” — Patton’s Brutal Response to German Complaints
DACHAU, Germany — In the freezing spring mud of April 1945, an aristocratic German general in a tailored woolen greatcoat and mirror-polished riding boots stood inside a damp American command post and demanded better quarters, citing the Geneva Convention of 1929 and insisting that a man of his station could not be expected to sleep … Read more