Patton's views on Jewish people.

Most of the Jews leaving Germany immediately after the war came from Poland and Russia, and Patton found their personal ways not civilized.

 

He was shocked by their behavior in the camps that the Americans built for them and even more disgusted by the way they behaved when they were housed in German hospitals and private homes. He saw that "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."

Patton's initial views of the Jews were not improved when he attended a Jewish religious service at Eisenhower's insistence. He wrote in his diary:

 

"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 reasons and a great many others firmly convinced Patton that the Jews were very unusual creatures, and questioned why the American government was helping them.

These are some views that George Patton had on the Jewish race.