The Commando Order (German: Kommandobefehl) was issued by the OKW, the high command of the German armed forces, on 18 October 1942. This order ...
'It was Rommel who burned the Commando Order issued by Hitler on 28 October 1942, which laid down that all enemy soldiers encountered behind the ...
He also disregarded an order directing German generals to execute Allied commandos caught behind enemy lines. In the end, Rommel fled all ...
The most significant consequence of Operation Basalt, the British commando raid on the occupied Channel Island of Sark, was the Commando Order ( ...
The order was to execute any Allied commando prisoner caught in the act
and he sentence them to death under terms of Hitler's Commando order.
Erwin Rommel was a German army officer who rose to the rank of Field Marshal. ... It is true that he flatly refused to carry out several criminal orders issued by his ...
There Rommel issued several orders on which the brutality with which the Italian soldiers captured by the Germans were treated. On September ...
It was also during his time in North Africa that Rommel would disobey Hitler's infamous Commando Order to execute captured Allied commandos, and also an ...
He was one of the few German commanders who disobeyed Adolf Hitler's infamous 1942 Commando Order requiring that allied commandos captured in ...