Editing Commando (section)

=== Germany ===
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-R81453, SS-Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny an der Oder.jpg|thumb|Skorzeny with soldiers of the 500th SS Parachute Battalion (1945)]]

In December 1939, following the success of [[Nazi Germany|German]] infiltration and sabotage operations in the [[Invasion of Poland|Polish campaign]], the German [[Abwehr|Office for Foreign and Counter-Intelligence]] (OKW Amt Ausland/Abwehr) formed the [[Brandenburger Regiment]] (known officially as the 800th Special Purpose Training and Construction Company).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bundesarchiv.de/DE/Content/Virtuelle-Ausstellungen/Die-Brandenburger-Kommandotruppe-Und-Frontverband/die-brandenburger-kommandotruppe-und-frontverband.html|title="Die Brandenburger" Kommandotruppe und Frontverband|last=Dr. Herrmann|first=Tobias|date=2019|website=Bundesarchiv.de}}</ref> The Brandenburgers conducted a mixture of covert and conventional operations but became increasingly involved in ordinary infantry actions and were eventually converted into a Panzer-Grenadier Division, suffering heavy losses in [[Russia]]. [[Otto Skorzeny]] (most famed for his rescue of [[Benito Mussolini]]) conducted many special operations for [[Adolf Hitler]]. Skorzeny commanded [[Sonder Lehrgang Oranienburg|Sonderlehrgang z.b.V. Oranienburg]], Sonderverband z.b.V. Friedenthal, and [[SS-Jäger-Bataillon 502]], [[500th SS Parachute Battalion]], [[SS-Jagdverband Mitte]] and all other [[SS-Sonderkommando|SS]] commando units.

The German [[Fallschirmjäger (World War II)|Fallschirmjäger]] were famous for their elite skills and their use in rapid commando style raids and as elite "fire brigade" infantrymen.<ref>McNab P.50</ref>{{Full citation needed|date=February 2018}} [[Fort Eben-Emael]] on the Belgian border was [[Battle of Fort Eben-Emael|captured]] in 1940 by Fallschirmjäger troops as part of the German invasion and occupation of Belgium.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.koelner-luftfahrt.de/ebenemael.htm|title=Eben Emael|website=www.koelner-luftfahrt.de|access-date=2020-01-12}}</ref><ref>Kommandounternehmen des zweiten Weltkriegs, Robin Cross, Karl Müller Verlag 1999, {{ISBN|3860708252}}</ref>

A report written by [[Robert Laycock|Major-General Robert Laycock]] in 1947 claimed that there was a German raid on a radar station on the Isle of Wight in 1941.<ref>Commando Country, Stuart Allan, National Museums Scotland 2007, {{ISBN|978-1-905267-14-9}}</ref><ref>Raids in the Late War and their Lessons, R. Laycock, Journal of the Royal United Service Institution November 1947 pp 534-535</ref>