I mean, Patton wanted to keep marching all the way to Moscow. He was right. The Soviets had no way to stop us at that point. No navy, no air force, and a depleted and exhausted army.

There were plenty of people who were deserving of the noose or worse after what they did to the Jews. There were also plenty of people deserving, on both the western and eastern front, of the same after what they did to ethnic Germans in the aftermath of WW2, and WW1 for that matter, considering the latter atrocities is what lead to the rise of Hitler and the NAZIs in many ways.