Editing Commando Order (section)

===Allied casualties===
Dozens of Allied special forces soldiers were executed as the result of this order.<ref>{{Cite web |title=British commandos {{!}} Raids, Training, World War II, & Normandy Invasion {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/British-commandos#ref348167 |access-date=2024-11-19 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref>

"Commandos" of those types captured were turned over to German security and police forces and transported to concentration camps for execution. The Gazette [[F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas#George Cross citation|citation]] reporting the awarding of the [[George Cross|G.C.]] to [[F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas|Yeo-Thomas]] describes this process in detail.{{Fact|date=November 2024}}

POW Allied airmen were also killed via the "Commando Order".<ref>[http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/Victims.htm List of Allied POWS killed after capture]</ref>{{Better reference|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable ([[WP:NOTRS]]).|date=November 2024}}{{Failed verification|date=November 2024}}

Victims include:
* The first victims were two officers and five other ranks of [[Operation Musketoon]], who were shot in [[Sachsenhausen concentration camp|Sachsenhausen]] on the morning of 23 October 1942.
* In November 1942, British survivors of [[Operation Freshman]] were executed.
* In December 1942, British [[Royal Marines|Royal Marine]] commandos captured during [[Operation Frankton]] were executed under this order. After the captured Royal Marines were executed by a naval firing squad in Bordeaux, the Commander of the [[Kriegsmarine|German Navy]] Admiral [[Erich Raeder]] wrote in the ''Seekriegsleitung'' war diary that the executions of the Royal Marines were something "new in international law since the soldiers were wearing uniforms".<ref>{{Citation | last = Bird | first = Keith | title = Erich Raeder | place = Annapolis | publisher = Naval Institute Press | year = 2006 | page = 201}}.</ref> American historian Charles Thomas wrote that Raeder's remarks about the executions in the ''Seekriegsleitung'' war diary seemed to be some sort of ironic comment, which might have reflected a bad conscience on the part of Raeder.<ref>{{Citation | last = Thomas | first = Charles | title = The German Navy in the Nazi Era | place = Annapolist | publisher = Naval Institute Press | year = 1990 | pages = 212–13}}.</ref>
* On 30 July 1943, the captured seven-man crew of the [[Royal Norwegian Navy]] motor torpedo boat ''[[MTB 345]]'' were executed by the Germans in [[Bergen]], [[Norway]] on the basis of the Commando Order.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Nøkleby |first=Berit |author-link=Berit Nøkleby |editor-link=Hans Fredrik Dahl |editor-last=Dahl |editor-first=Hans Fredrik |encyclopedia=[[Norsk krigsleksikon 1940-1945]] |title=MTB 345 |url=http://mediabase1.uib.no/krigslex/m/m4.html#mtb-345 |access-date=28 October 2012 |year=1995 |publisher=Cappelen |location=Oslo |language=no |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100102112613/http://mediabase1.uib.no/krigslex/m/m4.html#mtb-345 |archive-date=2 January 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* In January 1944, British Lt. [[Attempts to escape Oflag IV-C|William A. Millar]] escaped from [[Colditz Castle]] and vanished; it is speculated he was captured and killed in a concentration camp.
* In March 1944, 15 soldiers of the [[United States Army|U.S. Army]], including two officers, landed on the Italian coast as part of an OSS operation code-named [[Operations Ginny I and II|Ginny II]]. They were captured and executed.
* After the [[Normandy landings]], 34 [[Special Air Service|SAS]] soldiers and a [[United States Army Air Forces|USAAF]] pilot were captured during [[Operation Bulbasket]] and executed. Most were shot, but three were killed by lethal injection while recovering from wounds in a hospital.<ref>{{Cite news | location = UK | url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4834062.ece | title = SAS veterans honour wartime comrades who died |work=The Times |date=27 September 2008 |page=32}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}<!--citation for Operation Bulbasket--><!--possibly a dead link as of Dec. 2011--></ref>
* On 9 August 1944, a U.S. airman POW was killed in Germany; postwar 4 involved were executed; others served prison terms.
* In September 1944, seven British Commandos (along with 40 Dutch members of ''[[Englandspiel]]'') were executed over two days at [[Mauthausen concentration camp|KZ Mauthausen]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?t=30848 |title=47 allied airmen killed in KZ Camp-who were they?|publisher=12oclockhigh.net – Luftwaffe and Allied Air Forces Discussion Forum}}</ref>
* On 21 November 1944 U.S. airman and prisoner of war Lt. Americo S. Galle was executed at [[Enschede]], Holland by ''SS-[[Unterscharführer]]'' Herbert Germoth<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fieldsofhonor-database.com/index.php/american-war-cemetery-ardennes-g/50832-galle-americo-s|title=GALLE, Americo S|publisher=fieldsofhonor-database.com}}</ref> by order of SS General [[Karl Eberhard Schöngarth]].{{citation needed|date=February 2019}}
* On 9 December 1944, five U.S. airmen of the [[20th Bomb Squadron|20th Bombardment Squadron]] were captured and executed near [[Kaplice|Kaplitz, Czechoslovakia]]. [[Franz Strasser]] was tried and executed on 10 December 1945 for participating in the murders.
* Between October 1944 and March 1945, nine men of the United States Army Air Forces were summarily executed after being shot down and captured in [[Jürgen Stroop]]'s district. Their known names were Sergeant Willard P. Perry, Sergeant Robert W. Garrison, Private Ray R. Herman, Second Lieutenant William A. Duke, Second Lieutenant Archibald B. Monroe, Private Jimmie R. Heathman, Lieutenant William H. Forman, and Private Robert T. McDonald.<ref name=Moczarski>Kazimierz Moczarski: Rozmowy z katem (Interview with an Executer, 1981), pp. 276–277.</ref> When Polish journalist [[Kazimierz Moczarski]] reminded him that the killing of POWs was defined as criminal under the Hague and Geneva Conventions, Stroop responded, "It was common knowledge that American flyers were terrorists and murderers who used methods contrary to civilised norms... We were given a statement to that effect from the highest authorities. It was accompanied by an order from [[Heinrich Himmler]]."<ref>Moczarski (1981), p. 250.</ref> As a result, he explained, all nine POWs had been taken to the forest and given "a ration of lead for their American necks".<ref>Moczarski (1981), pp. 251–252.</ref>
* On 24 January 1945, nine OSS men, including Lt. Holt Green of the Dawes mission, others of the Houseboat mission, four British SOE agents, and [[Associated Press|AP]] [[war correspondent]] [[Joseph Morton (correspondent)|Joseph Morton]], were shot at [[Mauthausen concentration camp|Mauthausen]] by ''SS-[[Hauptsturmführer]]'' [[Georg Bachmayer]] on orders of [[Ernst Kaltenbrunner]].{{Sfn | Persico | 1979 | pp = 222, 285, 279}} Morton was the only Allied correspondent to be executed by the [[Axis powers|Axis]] during World War II.
* In 1945, Lt. [[Jack Hendrick Taylor|Jack Taylor]] USNR and the Dupont mission were captured by the men of Gestapo agent Johann Sanitzer. Sanitzer asked the [[Reich Security Main Office|RSHA]] for instructions on a possible deal that Taylor proposed, but Kaltenbrunner's staff reminded him "of Hitler's edict that all captured officers attached to foreign missions were to be executed".{{Sfn | Persico | 1979 | p = 140}} Taylor was convicted of [[espionage]], though he claimed to be an ordinary soldier. He was sent to Mauthausen.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-the-story-of-the-world-war-ii-hero-who-became-the-first-navy-seal-2015-7|title=Here's the story of the World War II hero who became the first Navy SEAL|publisher=Business Insider }}</ref> He survived, barely, but gathered evidence, and was eventually a witness at the Nuremberg trials.{{Refn | group = "lower-alpha" | Taylor was forced to work on a crew that built a crematorium. His weight fell to {{convert|112|lb|kg st}} and he developed dysentery. Taylor tried to memorise atrocities told to him by other prisoners, in the mutual hope that he could eventually bring justice to the perpetrators. He survived the camp only because a friendly Czech "trustee" of the Nazi guards, Milos Stransky, had seen his execution order and burned it. After liberation, he returned to the camp to document and gather evidence, including the "death books" that recorded made-up and true versions of each prisoner's death.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/ww2/dupont.html |title=The Dupont Mission (October 13, 1944 – May 5, 1945) |publisher=American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise }}</ref> The evidence was later used at war crimes trials. He was also a witness at those trials. The rest of the mission, Graf, Ebbing, and Huppmann, were not technically "foreign soldiers" so the Commando order probably did not technically apply to them, although they were sentenced to death for being traitors. They escaped and survived.{{Sfn | Persico | 1979 | pp = 225, 310–313}}}}
* On 13 February 1945, eight survivors of a [[Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress|B-17 crash]] 48163 of the [[772nd Expeditionary Airlift Squadron|772nd Bombardment Squadron]] in Austria were captured; four survived the war while four were executed.<ref>[https://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/282260-execution-of-wwii-air-crews-terror-flyers-robert-l-stricker/ execution-of-wwii-air-crews-terror-flyers-robert-l-stricker/]</ref>
* On 20 February 1945, OSS agent [[Roderick Stephen Hall]] was murdered by the SS in [[Bolzano]], Italy. In 1946 his murderers, who used the Commando Order as their defence, were executed for the murder of Hall, pilot Charles Parker, SAS officers Roger Littlejohn and David Crowley as well as U.S. airmen George Hammond, Hardy Narron, and Medard Tafoya.<ref>{{Cite book| author=Patrick K. O'Donnell |title=The Brenner Assignment: The Untold Story of the Most Daring Spy Mission of World War II | publisher=[[Da Capo Press]] | year=2008 |isbn=978-0-7867-2651-6}}</ref>