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Why was George S. Patton removed from command of the Third Army after World War II?
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George S. Patton, 1945.
George S. Patton was removed from command of the Third Army in October 1945 due to his public criticism of Allied denazification policies in Germany and his making of ill-advised comments to the press.1
Following the German surrender, Patton had been appointed as the military governor of Bavaria, a political role for which he was considered ill-suited by both training and temperament. After his removal from the Third Army, he was reassigned to command the Fifteenth U.S. Army in Bad Nauheim, Germany, where he oversaw the documentation of the war's history.1