Word: blaskowitz
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Dates: during 1939-1939
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...were directed south of Nijmegen and especially across Dutch Brabant, Belgium would order immediate general mobilization and declare that her own security was threatened." The German Ambassador in Brussels telephoned Berlin the gist of Belgium's decision. "The news from Brussels was received when Generals Keitel, Reichenau and Blaskowitz were assembled in Berlin for a final conference to settle the last details of the attack to be launched the following day. They immediately concluded that the plan on which they had decided would no longer be feasible...
...hours of the siege, Warsaw's hungry defenders were tempted by huge German posters in Polish reading, POLES! COME TO US. WE WILL NOT HURT YOU. WE WILL GIVE YOU BREAD! Polish officers who finally came out with a flag of truce were received by German General Johannes Blaskowitz in his railway staff car in a scene reminiscent of the signing of World War I's armistice in the car of Generalissimo Ferdinand Foch. General Rommel, commanding the defense of Warsaw, had instructed his emissaries to ask only a brief truce for the evacuation of civilians...