On the Death of Gen. George S. Patton

Forty years ago, when I was in high school, a friend's father, who was in Germany during the close of WWII, told me about the death of Gen. Patton.

According to official reports, he died of a broken neck received in an automobile accident.

My friend's father insisted that this account was merely a cover-up.

My friend's dad told me that the flamboyant general had comandeered a sedan which had formerly been used by a German general for hunting deer in the Black Forest. The German officer had had the car outfitted with large meat hooks hanging from the roof of the large sedan in the back seat to hang his 'kill'.

Accordingly, General Patton was involved in a minor traffic accident and would ordinarily have walked away uninjured. But the force of the crash threw the General and impaled him on one of the meat hooks, and this is what really killed him. The reports of the death of a respected General in such a manner would have been, perhaps, less than honorable and this is why the official reports merely said that he died of a broken neck.

I recently made contact with my friend by e-mail after all these years, and he verified the story.

Now, I've done a little digging around on the web and discovered that the car was a 1938 Cadillac Fleetwood Model, seven passenger Imperial Sedan with a sliding glass partition. The car had been shipped to France before WWII and had been appropriated by the German High Command during the occupation.
http://www.2ndarmoredhellonwheels.com/itsafact.html

Can anyone here verify or refute such a story?

Thanks!

Why would a German office want to have a blood-dripping carcass in the back seat with him?

Play more with Claymore! V-Man

He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

Don't know. Perhaps he was a bloodthirsty fascist.

Are you sure Gen Patton was killed in a Cadillac 'fleetwood'? I don't think Fleetwoods were in use until much later.

Cheers and all,

It was a rhetorical question, designed to provoke though on the question being asked.

As for your reply, there were very few Nazis that actually drank blood. Most seem to have been teetotalers or preferred Beer.

Play more with Claymore! V-Man

He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

Respectfully, I'm not certain that it's a relevant thought-provoking question.

I'm not a hunter myself, but I think that most hunters who dress their own kill are used to a fair amount of blood; also, the sedan *may* have been fitted with some kind of drainage as well; the back seat area is surely roomy enough.

But this is all conjecture, and maybe the devil *is* in the details.

like a dog passing a peach pit:

Ahhh....conspiracy theorists, God love 'em. What fun would the world be without them?

This doesn't strike you as being preposterous?

He may have confirmed to you that your recollection of the story as he had previously related it to you was correct; but he didn't 'verify' anything.

Someone should tell those people that it would be oh-so-much easier to read their page if they would follow one of the basic rules of webpage design and *not* place text over a background like that.

Also please note a couple of disclaimers on that page that even though they say 'It's a fact' (about a million times), they are in possession of several different versions of the 'facts'. Reader beware.

I thought your friend already did.

Michael Cash Kiryu, Japan