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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)
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.
Defendant: Wilhelm Keitel
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
Document Book No: Prosecution 7
HLSL Item No.: 451992
Notes:Under Hitler's commando order (October 1942), the captives were to be executed. Another copy of PS 537 had been entered as US exhibit 553; this copy was apparently not used in the case against Keitel and Jodl.
Document Summary
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
Red Series Doc Descriptions
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
Doc Book Tables of Contents
PS-537: 30 July 44 - Hitler order re application of commando order to members of foreign "military missions".