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Parent topics
- World War II [r]: (1931–1945) global war killing 53 million people, with the "Allies" (UK, US, Soviet Union) eventually halting aggressive expansion by the "Axis" (Nazi Germany and Japan). [e]
- German military forces [r]: German military traditions and organization from pre-19th century unification, through the World Wars, through reunification [e]
- National Socialism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Erwin von Witzleben [r]: (1881-1944) German Field Marshal who commanded the forces that broke through the Maginot Line in the Battle of France; member of the German Resistance from 1938; retired 1942 due to Gestapo reports he criticized the regime; designated head of the Armed Forces after the 20th of July coup; executed after a show trial in the Peoples' Court [e]
- Witzleben was his commander at the time of Blaskowitz's complaints about the SS.
- Erwin von Witzleben [r]: (1881-1944) German Field Marshal who commanded the forces that broke through the Maginot Line in the Battle of France; member of the German Resistance from 1938; retired 1942 due to Gestapo reports he criticized the regime; designated head of the Armed Forces after the 20th of July coup; executed after a show trial in the Peoples' Court [e]
- Witzleben was his commander at the time of Blaskowitz's complaints about the SS.
- Erwin von Witzleben [r]: (1881-1944) German Field Marshal who commanded the forces that broke through the Maginot Line in the Battle of France; member of the German Resistance from 1938; retired 1942 due to Gestapo reports he criticized the regime; designated head of the Armed Forces after the 20th of July coup; executed after a show trial in the Peoples' Court [e]
- Witzleben was his commander at the time of Blaskowitz's complaints about the SS.
Subtopics
- Annexation of the Sudetenland [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Anschluss [r]: Term used, after World War I, for the union of Austria with Germany; forbidden by the 1919 peace treaties, but carried out under German military threat in March 1938. [e]
- 1939 German invasion of Poland [r]: Add brief definition or description
- He was the chief planner of the actual invasion, commanded a field army in it, and was Military Governor of occupied Poland.
- Einsatzgruppe [r]: Plural is Einsatzgruppen; Nazi mobile security, and then killing units, which accompanied Army units advancing into Austria, Poland and Russia; units on Russian Front carried out mass murder in Holocaust prior to the construction of extermination camps [e]
- Blaskowitz complained about the behavior of SS units, including Einsatzgruppen, in the 1939 German invasion of Poland.
- High Command Case [r]: A trial of senior professional military officers of Nazi Germany, for which some were convicted of war crimes, crimes against humanity, or both; none were judged at the policy-making level to have plotted aggressive war [e]
- Blaskowitz was accused in the High Command Case, but committed suicide before trial.
- German Resistance [r]: Individuals and groups in Nazi Germany who opposed the regime of Adolf Hitler between 1933 and 1945. [e]
- While not known to be a formal member of the Resistance, Blaskowitz objected to the behavior of SS units and was relieved of command
- Commando Order [r]: An order from Adolf Hitler, later the basis for a number of war crimes prosecution, which condemned uniformed special operations personnel operating behind enemy lines [e]
- In the High Command Case, he was to be charged with violations of the Commando Order by troops under his command
- Command responsibility [r]: A doctrine, in international law, that a commander is ultimately responsible for war crimes by subordinates, even if the commander was unaware of the acts or may have taken steps to prevent the acts [e]