Editing Anton Dostler

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|Image = Anton Dostler 1945 a (cropped).jpg
|fullname = Anton Dostler
|occupation = Nazi Infantry general
|crimes = [[War crimes]]<br>[[Genocide]]<br>[[Anti-Semitism]]<br>[[Negrophobia]]<br>[[Persecution of Christians]]<br>[[Homophobia]]<br>[[Islamophobia]]<br>[[Misogyny]]
|type of villain = Nazi War Criminal
}}

'''Anton Dostler''' (10 May 1891-1 December 1945) was a [[Nazi]] German infantry general. He was a junior officer in [[World War I]] and chief of staff of the 7<sup>th</sup> army at the start of [[World War II]]. In 1944 he was appointed commander of the 75<sup>th </sup>Army Corps and was subsequently responsible for what happened that March.

On 22 March 1944 a group of Italian Fascists captured fifteen US commandos during Operation Ginny II. They were handed over to the 75<sup>th</sup> Army, the commander of which reported directly to Dostler. When asked for orders regarding the fates of the soldiers, Dostler informed his superior officer, [[Albert Kesselring]], of the situation. Kesselring replied by ordering the execution of the prisoners without trial in line with the Commando Order issued by [[Adolf Hitler]] in 1942, an order relayed to the soldiers by Dostler. On the 26<sup>th</sup> of March all fifteen prisoners were shot.

At the end of the war Dostler was arrested by the US army and put on trial for [[war crimes]] in May 1945. A military tribunal found him guilty of all charges and sentenced him to death by firing squad. This sentence was carried out that December. He was buried in Pomezia War Cemetery.
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