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Telegram to military commanders in the west, on the treatment of captured commandos, including the transfer of some ("in cases of doubt") to the SD to determine whether to apply the commando order (i.e., execution)

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Date: 24 June 1944

Literal Title: Subject: Treatment of Commandos

Total Pages: 1

Language of Text: English

Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)

Evidence Code: PS-532

Document Book No: Prosecution AA: Gestapo and SD

HLSL Item No.: 451559

Notes:The message is not signed. One copy of PS 532 (not necessarily this one) was entered as French exhibit 368.

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Criminal organizations (Gestapo, Leadership Corps, Cabinet, SS, SD, OKW) (… Partisan fighters (and commandos), operations against, and treatment of (I…

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PS-532: Top Secret letter from the WFST to various military headquarters and SS re treatment of paratroopers (Fuehrer Order of 18/10/42)

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PS-532: Secret teleprint message from the Wfst/qu. (verw. 1) to Commander-in-chief west, 24 June 1944, concerning the treatment of commandos

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Telegram to military commanders in the west, on the treatment of captured commandos, including the transfer of some ("in cases of doubt") to the SD to determine whether to apply the commando order (i.e., execution)

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