Please enumerate the “lot of” things Patton did that were brutal and excessive.
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Two high-profile incidents of Patton striking subordinates during the Sicily campaign attracted national controversy following the end of the campaign. On August 3, 1943, Patton slapped and verbally abused
Private Charles H. Kuhl at an evacuation hospital in
Nicosia after he had been found to suffer from "
battle fatigue".
[149] On August 10, Patton slapped Private Paul G. Bennett under similar circumstances.
[149] Ordering both soldiers back to the front lines,
[150] Patton railed against cowardice and issued orders to his commanders to discipline any soldier making similar complaints.
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When he faced questions from the press about his reluctance to
denazify post-war Germany, Patton noted that most of the people with experience in infrastructure management had been compelled to join the party in the war. He compared Nazis to
Democrats and
Republicans, bringing negative press stateside and angering Eisenhower.
[223] When Eisenhower ordered him to hold a press conference correcting his statements, Patton instead repeated them.
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On September 28, 1945, after a heated exchange with Eisenhower over the denazification controversy, Patton was relieved of his military governorship.
