Any attempt at resistance will result in the execution of hostages.

All but one past claim of the execution of hostages has been true.

Have there been unjustified reprisals against the civilian population, in particular, execution of hostages?

"The aircraft will depart before noon tomorrow, or the execution of hostages will begin then."

He was probably more at home puttering around in a lab, Kirk guessed, than watching the interrogation and execution of hostages.

They engaged in the execution of hostages both under Gestapo or Wehrmacht control and at their own initiative.

He was known for using summary execution of hostages and poison gas in his suppression of peasant uprisings.

Most of them were shot in publicised reprisal executions of hostages or died due to bad health conditions in the camp and a typhus epidemic; some were also gassed.

Mr. Dikic said Lieutenant Waldheim, in his capacity as liaison officer, transmitted information about the executions of hostages from the Italian headquarters to his German superiors in Belgrade.

At one point, during German mass executions of hostages in retaliation for attacks by French patriots, Paul Touvier had access to a school basement in Lyons where 40 hostages awaited execution.

He was not accused of war crimes, although some Resistance figures have said he could be accused of complicity in murder for the execution of hostages after Resistance assassination of Rexists.

At the end of the war in 1945, several Wehrmacht generals made a statement that defended the actions against partisans, the executions of hostages and the use of slave labor as necessary to the war effort.

Another sailor, Arthur Batchelor, 20, the youngest in the group, said he cried himself to sleep after one of the guards "kept flicking my neck with his index finger and thumb," making him think of video-recorded executions of hostages in Iraq.

One constant concern is the possibility of the conflict in the region undergoing a sort of ‘iraqisation’: kidnappings and executions of hostages, such as that of 18-year-old Eliahou Asheri, which hardly anybody has mentioned, who was shot in the head because he was hitch-hiking in Jerusalem.

In Belgium and France, the GFP became an executive part of the civilian police service, working alongside the military authorities to combat acts of resistance, Allied espionage and sabotage using terror tactics such as detentions, deportations and the execution of hostages.