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===Dieppe Raid === {{Main|Dieppe Raid}} On 19 August 1942, during a raid on Dieppe, a [[Canadian Army|Canadian]] [[brigadier]], William Southam, took a copy of the operational order ashore against explicit orders.{{sfn|Margaritis |2019|p=447}}<ref>{{Citation | last = Robertson | first = Terence | title = The Shame and the Glory}}.</ref>{{Rp | needed = yes | date =November 2012}} The order was subsequently discovered on the beach by the Germans and found its way to [[Adolf Hitler]]. Among the dozens of pages of orders was an instruction to "bind prisoners". The orders were for Canadian forces participating in the raid, and not the commandos. Bodies of shot German prisoners with their hands tied were allegedly found by German forces after the battle.<ref>{{Cite journal | journal = Legion Magazine | title = Horror Beyond Dieppe | date = September 1, 2002 | first = Robert | last = Waddy | url = http://www.legionmagazine.com/en/index.php/2002/09/horror-beyond-dieppe/ | access-date = 14 April 2010 | archive-date = 26 March 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130326183834/http://legionmagazine.com/en/index.php/2002/09/horror-beyond-dieppe/ | url-status = dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |page= 57 |last1= Poolton |first1=V |last2=Poolton-Turvey |first2=Jayne |title=Destined to Survive: A Dieppe Veteran's Story |year= 1998 | publisher = Dundrun Press}}</ref>
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