Patton and War Crimes

[PanzerJaeger]

Oh I agree. What he did to the legacy of the Fallschirmjäger in his rendition of the battle of Brecourt was nothing short of a travesty.

However, he did conduct thousands of primary source interviews with veterans and I have no reason to doubt his findings. His distortions are in his unwillingness to fact check those findings and his flair for the dramatic, not in the alteration of the interviews themselves. As an Allied cheerleader, he would be more prone to downplay Allied war crimes.