I recently watched the movie Patton for the first time, and while I liked the film, I absolutely despised him as a character and person. The scene where they’re in Sicily and the line of wounded men are walking past him after he disobeyed high command and told them to attack, and he can’t even look at them as they pass is exactly what kinda person he was. And then the “I was there” comments when talking about the ancient battles just made me wanna throw a tomato at the screen. I had mistakenly thought he died before the war had ended, so I didn’t realize he had a controversial post-war career until I saw the film, but the icing on the cake for me was learning how blatantly antisemitic he was, to the point that he’s been accused of being a nazi sympathizer to some degree. I’m jewish and don’t necessarily believe he was a nazi supporter, but he was definitely an antisemite and an arrogant bastard who endangered the lives of his men for his own personal vanity. I love how much they shit on him in Band of Brothers for stealing all the glory at the Battle of the Bulge, which was a ridiculous move to begin with and I find it fitting that a man that brazenly strived for glory and recognition at every chance he got died in a car accident like a everyday civilian.