532 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary
"On February 5, 1948, General Johannes Blaskowitz died under mysterious circumstances while awaiting trial as a war criminal in Nurnberg. Was it suicide or murder at the hands of other prisoners? What was there about Blaskowitz's career that diehard Nazis among the prisoners would want to kill him? Dr. Giziowski uses the enigma of General Blaskowitz's last days as a starting point to examine one of the most remarkable military careers of the Third Reich."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents
Early life -- The Great War -- Defeat: Weimar Democracy -- Nazi peace years -- Dress rehearsal in Czechoslovakia -- The Polish campaign -- Occupied Poland 1939 -- Occupied Poland 1940 -- Occupied France 1940 -- Occupies France 1941-1943 -- Occupied France 1944 -- Invasion and retreat -- Counterattack -- Defeat -- The end -- Epilogue I: War criminal -- Epilogue II: Blaskowitz's death.
