Editing Execution by firing squad (section)

===Netherlands===
{{Main|Capital punishment in the Netherlands}}
During the Nazi occupation in World War II some 3,000 persons were executed by German firing squads. The victims were sometimes sentenced by a military court; in other cases they were hostages or arbitrary pedestrians who were executed publicly to intimidate the population. After the attack on high-ranking German officer [[Hanns Albin Rauter]], about 300 people were executed publicly as reprisal against resistance movements. Rauter himself was executed near [[Scheveningen]] on 12 January 1949, following his conviction for war crimes. [[Anton Mussert]], a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[Nazism|Nazi]] leader, was sentenced to death by firing squad and executed in the dunes near [[The Hague]] on 7 May 1946.<ref>"Dutch Nazi Executed," ''Amarillo Globe'', May 7, 1946, p. 1.</ref>

While under [[Allies of World War II|Allied guard]] in Amsterdam, and five days after the [[German Instrument of Surrender|capitulation of Nazi Germany]], [[13 May 1945 German deserter execution|two German Navy deserters]] were shot by a firing squad composed of other German prisoners kept in the [[Canadian Forces|Canadian]]-run [[prisoner-of-war camp]]. The men were lined up against the wall of an [[air raid shelter]] near an abandoned [[Ford Motor Company]] assembly plant in the presence of Canadian military.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Chris Madsen |url=http://www.wlu.ca/lcmsds/cmh/back%20issues/CMH/volume%202/issue%201/Madsen%20-%20Victims%20of%20Circumstance%20-%20the%20Execution%20of%20German%20Deserters%20by%20Surrendered%20German%20Troops%20Under%20Canadian%20Control.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204221839/http://www.wlu.ca/lcmsds/cmh/back%20issues/CMH/volume%202/issue%201/Madsen%20-%20Victims%20of%20Circumstance%20-%20the%20Execution%20of%20German%20Deserters%20by%20Surrendered%20German%20Troops%20Under%20Canadian%20Control.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-02-04 |title=Victims of Circumstance |date=August 2006 |journal=Canadian Military History |volume=2: Iss.&nbsp;1,&nbsp;Article 8 |publisher=Scholars.wlu.ca (CanadianMilitaryHistory.ca reprint) |via=Internet Archive}} ''See:'' [[13 May 1945 German deserter execution]] in Wikipedia.</ref>