Navy war diary entry on the capture and execution of two uniformed Allied soldiers found with sabotage equipment, in accordance with Hitler's commando order

Authors

Navy High Command, and/or Navy administration (general)

Date: 09 December 1942

Literal Title: Translation

Defendant: Erich Raeder

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: D-658

Exhibit Code: Prosecution 229

Document Book No: Prosecution 10 (Raeder)

Citation: IMT (page 2742)

HLSL Item No.: 452972

Notes:The entry notes that the execution of uniformed soldiers is "something new in international law." Hitler's order on the execution of commandos was issued on 18 October 1942.

Trial Issue

Partisan fighters (and commandos), operations against, and treatment of (I…