The Commando Order (German: Kommandobefehl) was issued by the OKW, the high command of the German armed forces, on 18 October 1942. This order ...
Hitler's Commando Order · The most significant consequence of Operation Basalt , the British commando raid on the occupied Channel Island of Sark, was the ...
Adolf Hitler's 'Commando Order' was very blunt in what it stated. The 'Commando Order' state that any special forces soldier captured alive by ...
Hitler Issues Commando Order
Operation Basalt — Inside the Controversial 1942 British Raid That Led to Hitler's Infamous 'Commando Order' · “The German Führer decreed that ...
On October 18, 1942, Hitler issued the Kommandobefehl or Commando Order. The order was to execute any Allied commando prisoner caught in ...
British commando raids so enraged Hitler that he issued his infamous ' Commando Order' in 1942, which allowed the summary execution of any captured ...
18th October 1942: Hitler's Order – Summary death for Commandos. I therefore order: From now on all enemies on so-called commando ...
This was a death sentence for any Commando captured after the 18th of October 1942. The first to be executed under this infamous order were a group of 7 ...
Together, these two raids are believed to have motivated Hitler, two weeks later, on October 18, to issue the Commando Order (Kommandobefehl) ...