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Order that allied soldiers (Anglo-American and Soviet) captured with partisan groups are to be treated as members of "terror and sabotage" groups and not as prisoners of war

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Wilhelm Keitel (Field Marshal, Chief of the High Command of the Armed Forces)

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Wilhelm Keitel

German field marshal

Born: 1882-09-22 (Helmscherode) (country: German Empire; located in the administrative territorial entity: Duchy of Brunswick)
Died: 1946-10-16 (Nuremberg) (country: Allied-occupied Germany)
Country of citizenship: Germany
Occupation: military officer; military personnel; politician
Member of political party: Nazi Party
Military rank: general field marshal
Military branch: artillery
VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/74027425

Date: 30 July 1944

Literal Title: re: Treatment of members of foreign "Military Missions", captured together with partisans.

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-537

Exhibit Code: Prosecution 553

Document Book No: Prosecution CC: OKW

Citation: IMT (page 2190)

HLSL Item No.: 451854

Notes:Under Hitler's commando order (October 1942), the captives were to be executed.

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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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Staff Evidence Analyses

PS-537: Draft of a letter from OKW regarding treatment of British, American and Russian so-called members of military missions. Calssified Top Secret

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PS-537: Keitel’s top-secret order, 30 July 1944, stating that members of foreign military missions taken prisoner with guerrillas are not to be treated as prisoners of war, but to be exterminated in accordance with Hitler’s order of 18 October 1942

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PS-537: 30 July 44 - Hitler order re application of commando order to members of foreign "military missions".