The enigma of General Blaskowitz /
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 h...
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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London : New York :
Leo Cooper ; Hippocrene Books,
1997
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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 |
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Physical Description: | 532 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm 532 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm 532 p., [12] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm 532 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 505-524) and index Includes bibliographical references and index |
ISBN: | 0781805031 (Hippocrene) 0781805031 0850525543 (Cooper) 0850525543 (Leo Cooper) 0850525543 (London) 9780781805032 9780850525540 (London) |