content: Where is there any evidence of that? Don't just make up things like liberals do. He probably hated German officers because he had to explain his very German name and background during all the 1930's.  To the distress of his mother, a devout Mennonite and pacifist, young Ike (as he was known) won an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, and graduated in the middle of his class in 1915.