What Patton Did When a German Major Refused to Surrender Full story: https://btuatu.com/rk10 March 28, 1945. The war in Europe should have been nearly over. The German army was crumbling. American tanks were advancing deep into Bavaria. But as the soldiers of the 45th Infantry Division of the United States entered the town of Aschaffenburg, they suddenly stopped in the middle of the street. On the lampposts… were bodies swaying in the wind. They weren't soldiers. They were civilians—old men, wom