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    Johannes Albrecht Blaskowitz (10 July 1883 – 5 February 1948) was a German Generaloberst during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross...
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    and Oberbefehlshaber Niederlande commander-in-chief Generaloberst Johannes Blaskowitz reached an agreement on the capitulation of all German forces in...
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    II. Oberbefehlshaber Niederlande supreme commander Generaloberst Johannes Blaskowitz surrendered to I Canadian Corps commander Lieutenant-General Charles...
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    Schlemm had been wounded. Blumentritt and his superior, Generaloberst Johannes Blaskowitz, both recognised that the situation was lost. The army's front was...
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    31 December 1944, German Army Group G (commanded by Generaloberst Johannes Blaskowitz) and Army Group Upper Rhine (commanded by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich...
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    War II field army. It was activated on 15 May 1940 with General Johannes Blaskowitz in command. The 9th Army first saw service along the Siegfried Line...
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    units concentrated around Warsaw were put under command of general Johannes Blaskowitz An initial German attack took place on 23 September, which was successfully...
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    and Army Pomorze. The German forces included the 8th Army under Johannes Blaskowitz and 10th Army under Walther von Reichenau of Army Group South (Heeresgruppe...
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    to the Western Front to command Army Group G in relief of General Johannes Blaskowitz in the Alsace region of France. Balck was unable to stop the Allied...
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    central France towards Vichy and Toulon, under the command of General Johannes Blaskowitz. The Italian 4th Army occupied the French Riviera and an Italian...
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    Otto Schniewind and Hugo Sperrle were acquitted on all counts. Johannes Blaskowitz committed suicide during the trial and the 11 remaining defendants...
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    onwards. The 8th Army was activated on 1 August 1939 with General Johannes Blaskowitz in command. In 1939 it was part of Gerd von Rundstedt's Army Group...
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    future writer Farley Mowat and the German commander-in-chief, General Johannes Blaskowitz. It was agreed that the participating aircraft would not be fired...
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    Forces deployed North to South:: 86  Heeresgruppe H Generaloberst Johannes Blaskowitz Twenty-Fifth Army General der Infanterie Günther von Blumentritt...
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    Command (Oberbefehlshaber Niederlande), under command of Generaloberst Johannes Blaskowitz, to defend Fortress Holland (Festung Holland), the area west of the...
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    German Silesia and from the Moravian and Slovak border. General Johannes Blaskowitz's 8th Army was to drive eastward against Łódź. General Wilhelm List's...
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  • United States Army Group. By the time the retreat was over General Johannes Blaskowitz had lost about half his force. He was relieved on 21 September by...
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    in Poland in 1939, when several German Army generals (including Johannes Blaskowitz) had attempted to bring Einsatzgruppen leaders to trial for the murders...
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    Austrian front, where the Red Army was making rapid gains.: 355  Johannes Blaskowitz replaced Student as commander of Army Group H on 30 January 1945...
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  • von der Chevallerie was headquartered at Bordeaux and attached to Johannes Blaskowitz's Army Group G at Toulouse, along with 19th Army (Georg von Sodenstern)...
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    (under Oberbefehlshaber Niederlande commander-in-chief Generaloberst Johannes Blaskowitz) had recently been re-designated Fortress Holland (German: Festung...
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    the Germans deemed a realistic defense in the south impossible. Johannes Blaskowitz's Army Group G headquarters discussed a general withdrawal from southern...
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    Health and co-head of the Aktion T4 euthanasia program Generaloberst Johannes Blaskowitz, Commander-in-Chief of Army Group G and Army Group H General der...
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    surprised at the American approach on the battlefield. Generaloberst Johannes Blaskowitz, C.O of Armeegruppe G, reviewed Patton's decision to launch a headlong...
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  • Szpęgawsk. Soviets carried out a massacre of 25 Polish POWs in Husynne. Johannes Blaskowitz (of German 8th Army) orders the final assault against Warsaw.: 314 ...
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    nine Panzer divisions of Heeresgruppe G commanded by Generaloberst Johannes Blaskowitz attacked Bastogne. Then a faked diversionary attack was mounted by...
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    of 1. Armee 26 August 1939 – 23 October 1940 Succeeded by General Johannes Blaskowitz Preceded by Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt Oberbefehlshaber...
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    commanded by Ernst Busch leaving the former Army Group H commander—Johannes Blaskowitz—to lead "Army Command Netherlands" (25th Army) cut off in the Netherlands...
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  • (Oberbefehlshaber Niederlande), under Generaloberst Johannes Blaskowitz. Kleffell was part of the general staff when Blaskowitz surrendered OB Niederlande to I Canadian...
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    111 8. Armee was based in northern Silesia General der Infanterie Johannes Blaskowitz 8. Armee Reserves 30. Infanterie-Division (Generalleutnant Kurt von...
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