I would be very interested to learn who’s making this statement, especially as a month before the SAS failed miserably in a major attack (for them) on Benghazi?

Hitler’s Commando Order is very simple in its sentiment, Commando captives were to be killed, but not so why he bothered to explain his reasons when one sentence would do? He took some elements of fact and misinterpreted, twisted and augmented them to fit his convolution.

Re ‘info’ about the SAS on the web, there’s a lot of stuff that belongs in a ‘Boy’s Own’ comic rather than history.

Examples from the web:
Paddy Mayne was an extreme and daring person and he wanted to join the toughest regiment he could find, so he joined the Royal Marines No 11 Scots Commandos.
Reality – The Commandos were never regimented. No.11 Commando was an Army Commando, not Royal Marines.

While on leave in the Commandos, Paddy got into a drunken argument in the pub, and punched a Commando on the nose. Chasing after the man with his Colt pistol, he then began shooting at him. This resulted in Paddy's arrest, but before his court marshal, he was discovered and became one of the first recruits to David Stirling's new unit.
Reality – Mayne struck his CO, Geoffrey Keyes (son of Roger Keyes) after being rebuked for his conduct in the mess.

After the Germans captured Sir David Stirling in 1943, the job of taking command of the SAS was passed down to Paddy. Mayne was given commend of the Special Raiding Squadron, D Squadron which later became 2 SAS and at present, it became the heart and formation of the SBS.
Reality – Mayne was given command of the SAS infantry units only as he wasn’t competent enough to command a brigade. The SBS was part of the brigade formation for a time but it never originated there and predated the SAS. It was developed from Roger Courtney’s Folboat Section idea while in No.8 Commando. He in turn got ideas from the success of Italian harbour raiders.

He died in 1950 after crashing his car while drunk.
Reality - He died in 1955 and Veterans have advised me he was not attended properly at the time of the crash. People were so wary of his abusive and violent disposition when drunk, no one would go near him!

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