What Patton Did When a Wehrmacht Officer Spat on a Wounded American Medic

He was crouched over a wounded American soldier in a ditch. Unarmed. Red cross on his helmet, armband on his arm. A German officer walked past, looked at him, and spat on him. He didn't stop working. 🪖 On March 26th, 1945, Corporal Raymond Joseph Holt of Terre Haute, Indiana — a combat medic with the 5th Infantry Division — was treating Private Roy Duttweiler in a ditch east of Worms, Germany, when a retreating Wehrmacht column passed through. An Oberleutnant named Franz Dietrich Moll stopped, looked at the man with the red cross, and spat on him. Holt didn't stop what he was doing. Duttweiler was still bleeding. ⚔️ What followed was four weeks of CIC detective work by Sergeant Harold Greer of Omaha — pulling column movement records, cross-referencing officer rosters, tracking the specific scar on the jaw of a man who thought he had disappeared into eleven thousand prisoners. A two-page JAG memorandum by Major Eleanor Forsythe, one of the few female JAG officers in the European Theater, that argued the red cross either means something or it means nothing. And Patton reading the file on April 29th and saying four words: Prosecute. 📜 Holt crossed the Atlantic in September 1945 to sit in front of a military tribunal and say one word: yes. Moll was found guilty. Two years for three seconds. But those two years established that the three seconds existed in the record. That the red cross meant something. Because Patton said it did. ⚖️ Subscribe — because Ray Holt kept working, and the least we can do is keep telling the story. 🕯 🎖 What you'll discover in this video: 🪖 The ditch, the column, the three seconds — and what Holt did immediately after 📜 Four weeks of CIC detective work to identify one officer in eleven thousand prisoners 💀 The three German witnesses whose flat, unsurprised testimony was the most disturbing thing in the file ⚖️ Forsythe's two-page memorandum — and the sentence that went beyond standard legal citation 🕯 Roy Duttweiler, 20, Lancaster PA — who didn't know what happened above the trench line until Holt told him later 🔥 The helmet still in the Indiana State Library, red cross painted on by Holt himself before he shipped out Next on this channel: what Third Army investigators found sealed inside a Waffen-SS officer's private estate that his own orderly had tried to wall off before the Americans arrived. This channel presents historical content focused on documented World War II war crimes and the pursuit of justice. All accounts are drawn from military records, veteran testimony, and declassified investigative materials. TAGS general patton, patton wwii, third army, american medic attacked, Geneva Convention wwii, Wehrmacht officer war crime, combat medic wwii, red cross violated, Worms 1945, CIC investigation wwii, wwii documentary, true crime wwii, forensic history, declassified wwii, untold wwii stories, veterans stories, hidden history, nazi war crimes, patton cases, wwii justice, medic protection laws, 5th infantry division, JAG prosecution wwii, Duttweiler medic ditch