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Old 11-18-2012, 09:52 PM  
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yeah i love that movie, George C Scott was brilliant in it - most of the people who knew Patton said he nailed it, though Patton's own voice was higher. Patton also was much more profane in real life than in the movie. A larger than life character.

A few years ago a book came out that purported that Patton's freaky death was an assasination - killed by an OSS(CIA) assassin with the involvement of the KGB. Patton was an angry bastard, after the war ended in Europe he wanted to be sent to the Pacific - the guy just loved being in the middle of the action, they gave him the job of running occupied Germany/Bavaria, not a job a man like Patton wanted. The story goes that Patton was going to blow the whistle on his higher ups including Eisenhower. He also wanted to continue the war and defeat Stalin, he hated Stalin more than Hitler. The conspiracy theory has some interesting facts/hypotheses but none of them have been really proven. His car accident was a very strange way for somebody like him to die.
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