Two German naval personnel, (Bruno Dorfer and Rainer Beck), were court-martialled for desertion and executed by a German firing squad, on May 13, 1945. While German military tribunals could discipline their troops, after having surrendered to the Canadian forces, (under "Allied Military Standing Order No. 153"), Canadian military law should have prevailed, (with no death sentence for desertion, and with a delay of three months before any such execution). The execution of the SS officer, by way of showing a Canadian officer a German "death warrant" and citing "Article 153," was a fiction. However, the misinformation may have been a deliberate lie by the character who presented it; the Canadian officer who believed it and acted on it is later referred to disparagingly.
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