From Wikipedia:
Major General Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf [Sr.] ..." trained virtually all of the first generation of SAVAK personnel."
SAVAK has been described as Iran's "most hated and feared institution" prior to the revolution of 1979 because of its practice of torturing and executing opponents of the Pahlavi regime.
And you wonder why they call us The Great Satan?
You can read more @
http://www.ibtimes.com/irans-feared-savak-norman-schwarzkopfs-father-had-greater-impact-middle-east-affairs-976502
By the way, if Senior Schwarzkopf served in the late 1940s in occupied Germany as provost marshal for the entire U.S. sector, that brings up some interesting questions related to the books Other Losses and Crimes and Mercies by Canadian author James Bacque. Bacque claims that the Allies mistreated Nazi POWs (disarmed enemy forces) and sent many of them to slave labor camps run by the English and French, including ones in Vietnam. If these claims are true, Senior was in a position as provost marshal to have known what was happening. Did he facilitate the process, did he hinder it, or did he perhaps not know about it?
I have my own opinion as to what happened, but as in most things like this I have no proof. In any case, I highly recommend that you read Other Losses. It serves as a realistic and revealing counter to The Greatest Generation.
You can find it @
http://abundanthope.net/artman2/uploads/1/Other_Losses_4.pdf
I can't vouch for the accuracy of the book download (I read the hard copy version of the book), but I do know that it does not mention Senior Schwarzkopf by name.
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