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  KOMMANDOBEFEHL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Der Kommandobefehl wurde von Adolf Hitler am 18.
Die Grundzüge des Kommandobefehls wurden bereits in einem Zusatz zu einem Wehrmachtsbericht am 7.
Hitler bezeichnete die Commandos als Sabotageeinheiten, die angeblich aus Verbrechern rekrutiert wurden und in ihren Einsätzen gegen die Genfer Konventionen verstießen.
www.toonorama.com /encyclopedia/K/Kommandobefehl   (150 words)

  
 Kommandobefehl -- Der Kommandobefehl wurde von Adolf Hitler am 18. Oktober 1...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Kommandobefehl -- Der Kommandobefehl wurde von Adolf Hitler am 18.
Generäle wie Erwin Rommel oder Albert Kesselring versuchten die Ausführung des Befehls innerhalb den ihnen unterstellten Streitkräfte zu vermeiden.
Dort ist eine Übersicht der Autoren einsehbar, sowie die Möglichkeit den Original-Text zu editieren.
kommandobefehl.exsudo.de   (186 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Special-Air-Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Their success contributed towards Hitler issuing his Kommandobefehl order to execute all captured Commandos.
They used jeeps armed with Vickers K machine guns and used tracer ammunition to ignite fuel and aircraft.
Hit-and-run tactics is a tactical doctrine where the purpose of the combat involved is not to seize control of territory, but to inflict damage on a target and immediately exit the area to avoid the enemys defense and/or retaliation.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Special_Air_Service   (12061 words)

  
 KOMMANDO (MILITäR)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Eine vierte Gruppe sicherte schließlich den Rückzug zu verschiedenen Booten und Flugzeugen, welche die Soldaten wieder nach England brachten.
Der Erfolg dieser und ähnlicher britischer Unternehmen veranlasste Hitler zu dem so genannten Kommandobefehl, in dem er anwies, alle gestellten Soldaten dieser Einheiten „bis auf den letzten Mann niederzumachen'.
Kommandos, die als Agenten oder Saboteure ins Land gelangten, sollten dem Sicherheitsdienst übergeben werden, wo man sie unverzüglich zu exekutieren hatte.
www.toonorama.com /encyclopedia/K/Kommando_(Milit%E4r)   (1058 words)

  
 Books | Letters
The Bush administration may have coined the expression "unlawful combatant", but I think Stephen Sedley is wrong in saying that the concept was hitherto unknown ("Law: The brutal truth", March 5).
Hitler in his Kommandobefehl of October 18 1942 denied the protection of the Geneva Conventions to captured special troops, even those wearing uniform; he seems, however, to have attempted little in the way of reasoned legal justification.
Several of those who obeyed this order were charged, tried (with legal representation and in open court) and condemned at Nuremberg by the Allied tribunals.
books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5145392-115899,00.html   (732 words)

  
 Commando Order - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
However, by this time many German camps had abandoned the pointless practice or reduced it to merely leaving a pile of shackles in a prison billet as a token.
On 18th October after much deliberation by High Command lawyers, officers and staff, Hitler issued his Commando Order or Kommandobefehl in secret, 12 copies.
The following day Army Chief of Staff, Alfred Jodl, distributed copies to Headquarters with his addition advising top secrecy and distribution protocol.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Commando_Order   (1354 words)

  
 koch.htm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Wehrmacht units were about to comply with Hitlers Kommandobefehl (the commando order, stating that allied commandos were to be executed), when Oberstleutnant Koch returned.
After being seriously wounded in the crash, Koch was moved to hospital in Berlin, where he died on 27th October 1943.
I have read several allegations that the car crash was not an accident, that it may have been instigated by the Gestapo after Koch's disreguard of Hitler's Kommandobefehl in Tunisia.
www.eagle19.freeserve.co.uk /koch.htm   (1709 words)

  
 tunisia.htm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Unfortunately for the Para’s, the British troops who patrolled the areas where they dropped, soon started to round up the Pioneer's.
Within a few days the majority had all been rounded up, there were many reports from survivors of British troops shooting captured Fallschirmjäger in response to Hitler's Kommandobefehl, the order to shoot allied commando's.
This last ditch effort to disrupt the Allied advance on Tunis had been unsuccessful.
www.eagle19.freeserve.co.uk /tunisia.htm   (970 words)

  
 David Stirling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Stirling used these vehicles to devastating effect on raids on German air bases.
Such was the success of the SAS, that Hitler issued his infamous ‘Kommandobefehl’ order – that any Special Forces man captured by the Germans would be summarily shot.
David Stirling’s participation in World War Two ended in 1943 in what can only be described as an anti-climax.
www.historylearningsite.co.uk /david_stirling.htm   (732 words)

  
 I've Finally Got My Own Website !!!: you might like, you might not...
These soldiers would be amongst the elite of the British Army.
Such was the success of this new force that in 1942 Hitler issued his infamous Kommandobefehl, or Commando Order.
Much of the Commando training was done in the Scottish countryside around the area of Achnacarry, Spean Bridge and Fort William.
www.freewebs.com /edinburgh1970/speanbridgeglencoe.htm   (715 words)

  
 D-Day 60th Anniversary: A Chronology - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, galleries, exhibitions and ...
Raid, largely by Canadian troops, resulted in more than 4,000 of the 6,000 strong force being either killed, wounded or captured.
18 Oct: Hitler issued a Kommandobefehl (Commando Order) that proscribed any Allied personnel captured in commando raids would be executed.
Order issued after a British raid on the Channel island of Sark, when the bodies of a number of German prisoners were found with their hands tied.
www.24hourmuseum.org.uk /trlout/TRA21994.html   (1721 words)

  
 More Nürnberg - www.ezboard.com
This assumption becomes highly dangerous if it leads to legal consequences and quite particularly so if a judicial decision is based upon it.....
Hitler had ordered the drafting of what was later called the "Kommandobefehl" (Commando Order).
One of the defendants was ordered by his superior to prepare a draft.
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One of the accounts is of a group of commandos who landed in Norway to carry out various sabotage activities but who were unfortunately captured.
In the course of investigating their disappearance (it transpired eventually that all the men had been killed in accordance with Hitler's Kommandobefehl order), the Director of Naval Intelligence received a statement from a German who had been a prisoner in Sachsenhausen camp with the men.
I suspect that it is not a translational effect as the term 'S-boat' is used as well and if the Germans referred to all such crafty as schnellboote, there would be no point putting both terms in the translation.
smmlonline.com /archives/VOL0756.txt   (2214 words)

  
 Commando Order   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
However, by this time many German camps had abandoned the pointless practice or reduced it to merelyleaving a pile of shackles in a prison billet as a token.
On 18th October after much deliberation by High Command lawyers, officersand staff, Hitler issued his Commando Order or ‘Kommandobefehl’ in secret, 12 copies.
The following dayArmy Chief of Staff, Jodl, distributed copies toHeadquarters with his addition advising top secrecy and distribution protocol.
www.therfcc.org /commando-order-171471.html   (1172 words)

  
 Radio Islam: 'No culpable' en el proceso de Nuremberg - 2
JODL fue ahorcado por su complicidad en el «Kommandobefehl«, una orden de fusilar a aquellos soldados británicos que combatían vestidos con ropas civiles y que estrangulaban a sus propios prisioneros de guerra (XV 316-329 <<347-362>>).
El enjuiciar y ejecutar a tales comandos sería legal si fuera hecho de conformidad con el artículo 63 de la convención de Ginebra de 1929 sobre prisioneros de guerra (N.B. véase también el Dissentient Judgement of Judge Rutledge, U.S. vs. Yamashita, y el Habeas corpus action of Field Marshall Milch.).
En verdad, muy pocos hombres fueron ejecutados como resultado del Kommandobefehl (55 en Europe del Oeste, según Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe, XXII 284 <<325>>.
www.abbc2.com /islam/spanish/revision/porter/porter2.htm   (4932 words)

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