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Commando Order

Germany · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1942

Adolf Hitler18 October 1942

Warfare / World War, 2nd

Hitler issued a Kommandobefehl (Commando Order) that proscribed any Allied personnel captured in commando raids would be executed

Names involved

Adolf Hitler

Provenance

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