ANOTHER SUICIDE AT NUREMBERG
(Rec. 1.10 p.m.) NUREMBERG, February 5.
General Blaskowitz, a former German commander-in-chief in Holland, was being led with 13 other defendants up the prison stairs on the way to the court, when he suddenly broke away, climbed a barbed wire barrier, and threw himself down a shaft. He was taken to the prison hospital where he died. Blaskowitz was 67. His was the ninth suicide by war crimes prisoners in Nuremberg gaol. The first was that of Goering.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 6 February 1948, Page 5
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