June 14, 1945. Pvt Howard Heath guards the recently-arrested Gen Johannes Blaskowitz at 1st Canadian Army Headquarters, Apeldoorn, Netherlands. Blaskowitz was the General Officer Commanding German forces in The Netherlands who surrendered to Canadian 1st Corps General Foulkes. Blaskowitz was later charged with war crimes at the Nuremberg Trials. But before his trial was concluded he escaped his own possible execution. In February 1948 he committed suicide by throwing himself off a balcony in Nuremberg.
