Editing Operation Basalt (section)

===Consequences===
A few days later, the Germans issued a communiqué implying at least one prisoner had escaped and two were shot while resisting having their hands tied. This came shortly after the [[Dieppe Raid]] where an Allied document reportedly instructed prisoners' hands to be tied. When this was brought to [[Adolf Hitler]]'s attention, he ordered the shackling of Canadian prisoners, which led to a reciprocating order by British and Canadian authorities for German prisoners being held in Canada.<ref>Vance, Jonathan F. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2944619 "Men in Manacles: The Shackling of Prisoners of War, 1942–1943."] ''The Journal of Military History,'' Vol. 59, No. 3, July 1995, pp. 483–504.</ref>

It is also believed that this raid contributed to [[Hitler]]'s decision to issue his [[Commando Order]] on 18 October 1942 instructing all captured Commandos or Commando-type personnel be executed as a matter of procedure. This order resulted in a number of war crimes being committed.<ref name=ELOB/>{{rp|146–52}}

The newspapers recovered from Sark gave details of the [[Deportations from the German-occupied Channel Islands|deportation of civilians to Germany]], this being the first evidence the British had seen of potential German war crimes in the occupied Channel Islands.<ref name=ELOB/> The Germans justified the action as being identical to the Allied removal of German civilians from Persia, current day Iran, to Australia that had taken place in 1941. No prosecution took place.

The raid resulted in increased security measures being taken on Sark, mainly through an increase in the number of mines, to 13,000,<ref name= ELOB/>{{rp|136}} being laid and the deportation to Germany of 201 Channel Island civilians with 48 Sark civilians, including Mrs Pittard, who had just completed a three-month jail term and [[Robert Hathaway]], the husband of the Dame of Sark, in February 1943. Dame [[Sybil Hathaway]] remarked on the raid as it "seemed a heavy price to pay for the capture of one prisoner and a copy of the ''[[Guernsey Evening Press]]''".<ref>{{cite book |first=Barbara |last=Stoney |title=Sybil, Dame of Sark |publisher= Burbridge |year=1984 |isbn= 0-95093600-6 |page=154 }}</ref>