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 ...
More significantly, the raid led to Hitler's infamous Kommandobefehl or “ Commando Order,” issued on Oct. 18, 1942. Furious over what had ...
Hitler Issues Commando Order
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 ...
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 ...
18th October 1942: Hitler's Order – Summary death for Commandos. I therefore order: From now on all enemies on so-called commando ...
Issued on Hitler's instructions on 18 October 1942, after a British Small Scale Raiding Force operation against the Channel Islands had resulted in German ...