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JOHANNES BLASKOWITZ/(1883 – 1948) Senior Wehrmacht general, commander of Polish occupation forces who opposed the excesses of the SS against the Jews. War-date 4″ x 6″ b/w, a chest up artist’s image of Blaskowitz in uniform, signed and dated “Im Felde 1944″ on the verso of a postcard picturing an artillery gun. With original 3.5 x 5 in. candid photograph. Very good.

Johannes Albrecht Blaskowitz (10 July 1883 – 5 February 1948) was a German general during World War II and recipient of the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords.

Blaskowitz led the 8th Army during the Invasion of Poland and was the Commander in Chief of Occupied Poland from 1939 to 1940; he had written several memoranda for the German High Command protesting the SS atrocities and handed out death sentences to members of the SS for crimes against the civilian population. He was dismissed, but then re-appointed. He commanded Army Group G during the Allied invasion of Southern France and Operation Nordwind, the last major German offensive of World War II on the Western Front.

After the war, he was charged with war crimes in the High Command Trial at Nuremberg and committed suicide on 5 February 1948. He was posthumously acquitted on all counts