How convenient they leave out the Metz debacle.

How 'convenient' that this horrendously inaccurate 'biography' totally ignored Patton's near 3 month failure to take Metz as well as skipping over his overall near debacle in the Lorraine. All we get are one line about Metz and scenes about 'no gas, no gas' over and over again.

Here is what German commanders really thought about Patton in the Lorraine:

General Hermann Balck, who took command of Army Group G in the Lorraine in September 1944 said.

"I have never been in command of such irregularly assembled and ill-equipped troops. The fact that we have been able to straighten out the situation again…can only be attributed to the bad and hesi­tating command of the Americans.."

In 1979 Balck recalled:

"Within my zone, the Americans never once exploited a success. Often von Mellenthin, my chief of staff, and I would stand in front of the map and say, ‘Patton is helping us: he failed to exploit another success."

Balck called the American leadership under Patton "poor and timid".


Waffen SS Gruppenfuhrer Max Simon said the American tactics in the Lorraine were "cautious and systematic" and that "The tactics of the Americans were based on the idea of breaking down a wall by taking out one brick at a time," and that "Had you made such attacks on the eastern front, where our anti-tank guns were echeloned in depth, all your tanks would have been destroyed."