Wageningen was the site of the surrender of German General Johannes Blaskowitz to Canadian General Charles Foulkes on May 5, 1945, officially ending the war in the Netherlands.

Blaskowitz was quite aware that with his scattered forces any serious Allied landing attempt would be impossible to ward off.

German intelligence was aware of the impending Allied landing, and on 13 August Blaskowitz ordered the 11th Panzer Division to move east of the Rhone River, where the landing was expected.

Blumentritt and his superior, Generaloberst ( Colonel General ) Johannes Blaskowitz, both recognised that the situation was lost.

8th Army was commanded by Colonel General Johannes Blaskowitz.

Johannes Albrecht Blaskowitz ( 10 July 1883 – 5 February 1948 ) was a German general during World War II.

Johannes Blaskowitz was born on July 10, 1883, in Paterswalde, Kreis Wehlau ( East Prussia ), now in Kaliningrad Oblast.

During World War I, Blaskowitz served on the Eastern and Western Front and was employed in the Generalstab.

As a traditional soldier, Blaskowitz kept a firm control on the men under his command in their dealings with civilians, Blaskowitz was opposed to the Army committing war crimes with the SS.

As a result, Blaskowitz found himself placed on a blacklist, and he was relieved of his command on 29 May 1940.

Following the Fall of France in May 1940, Blaskowitz was initially slated to command the 9th Army for occupation duties, but the appointment was blocked by Hitler and instead he was appointed to relatively minor position as Military Governor of Northern France, a position he held until October 1940, when he was transferred to the command of the 1st Army, on the southwest coast between Brittany and the Spanish border.

In May 1944, following the appointment of Gerd von Rundstedt as Commander-in-Chief in the West, Blaskowitz was appointed head of Army Group G. This comparatively small command, consisting of the 1st Army and the 19th Army, was given the task of defending southern France from the imminent Allied invasion.

Both Manteuffel and Blaskowitz realized the futility of such an action, but obeyed their orders, and their attack caught the US forces in disarray and pushed them back to near Lunéville on 18 – 20 September 1944, at which point resistance stiffened and the attack was suspended.

Blaskowitz remained unoccupied for some time, until in December 1944 he was suddenly recalled and ordered to attack in the vicinity of Alsace-Lorraine in support of the ongoing Ardennes offensive.

Blaskowitz was subsequently transferred to Holland, where he succeeded Kurt Student as commander of Army Group H. For the following three months he conducted a fighting withdrawal against the British 2nd Army, being awarded the Swords to his Knights Cross.

This command was redesignated in early April 1945 and Blaskowitz became commander-in-chief of the northern ( still occupied ) part of the Netherlands.

On May 5, Blaskowitz was summoned to the Hotel de Wereld ( Hotel the World ) in Wageningen by General Charles Foulkes ( commander of I Canadian Corps ) to discuss the surrender of the German forces in the Netherlands.

He was shocked that Colonel-General Johannes Blaskowitz had been the only general to protest to Hitler about the atrocities committed by the SS in Poland and that his protests were dismissed as ' childish '.

Furious over this failure, Hitler summarily relieved Blaskowitz, replacing him with Hermann Balck.

Despite ruling the troops under his command with an iron hand, and threatening to execute deserters, from April 29, Blaskowitz allowed Allied airdrops of food and medicine to the Dutch civilian population.

Blaskowitz agreed with all proposals by Foulkes.

Blaskowitz agreed with all of the proposals made by Foulkes.

The 8th Army was activated on August 1, 1939 with General Johannes Blaskowitz in command.

It was activated on May 15, 1940 with General Johannes Blaskowitz in command.

The museum also holds the medals of General Charles Foulkes, the man who, along with General Johannes Blaskowitz, signed the German capitulation agreement at the Hotel de Wereld in Wageningen ( Netherlands ) on May 6, 1945, effectively ending World War II in Europe.

Meanwhile, the Americans had requested that Rundstedt and Manstein be brought to Nuremberg to appear as a witness in the High Command Trial, in which a number of prominent generals, including Leeb, Blaskowitz ( who committed suicide during the trial ), Hugo Sperrle, Georg von Küchler and Hermann Hoth were on trial for war crimes.

Johannes Blaskowitz committed suicide during the trial.

* 1883 – Johannes Blaskowitz, German general ( d. 1948 )

On the 5th of May 1945, the Canadian General Charles Foulkes and the German Commander-in-Chief Johannes Blaskowitz reached an agreement on the capitulation of German forces in the Netherlands in Hotel de Wereld in Wageningen.

* July 10 – Johannes Blaskowitz, German general ( d. 1948 )

In fact, both Rundstedt and Blaskowitz complained to the Chief of Staff, General Franz Halder, about the Army Command's apparent tolerance of such incidents.

Blaskowitz started to consolidate his units for the planned withdrawal.

On 9 September operational group of " Poznań " army led by General Edmund Knoll-Kownacki started attack on 8th army led by General Johannes Blaskowitz.

* 1777 Chart / Map of Narragansett Bay by Charles Blaskowitz and William Faden at DavidRumsey. com

In 1894, Blaskowitz joined cadet school at Köslin ( Koszalin ) and also afterwards at Berlin Lichterfelde.

Blaskowitz, badly outnumbered and lacking air superiority, brought up units, stabilized his front, and led a fighting withdrawal to the north to avoid encirclement.

US army units pursued Blaskowitz up through the Vosges mountains before pausing to regroup.

His principal field commanders would be ( from west to east as they entered Poland ) General Johannes von Blaskowitz ( 8th Army ), Reichenau ( 10th Army ), and General Wilhelm List ( 14 Army ).

Rundstedt's main field commanders ( from north to south ) were Blaskowitz ( 9th Army ), List ( 12th Army ) and General Ernst Busch ( 16th Army ).

German forces included the 8th Army under Johannes Blaskowitz and 10th Army under Walther von Reichenau of Army Group South ( Heeresgruppe Süd ), elements of the 4th Army under Günther von Kluge of the Army Group North ( Heeresgruppe Nord ) and air support ( Luftflotte 1 and Luftflotte 4 ).

Commander-in-Chief Walther von Brauchitsch forwarded Blaskowitz's first memorandum to Hitler on 18 November, who launched a tirade against Blaskowitz, denouncing his concerns about due process as " childish " and poured scorn on his " Salvation Army attitude ".

The concentric assault around Nancy hastened the German withdrawal from the city which had already been authorized on 13 September by Generaloberst Johannes Blaskowitz, the army group commander.