| According to Hitler's Army by Omer Bartov in WWI 48 German soldiers were executed by their own army compared with 346 British & 650 French. In WWII the numbers were 13-15,000 Germans, 40 British & 100 French. Bartov doesn't divide his figures between military offences such as cowardice, desertion or sleeping on sentry duty & crimes such as murder but estimates that an average of 100 Germans per month of WWII were executed for desertion & another 100 for subversion. From other sources the British executions split 306 for such offences, 3 mutineers & 37 murderers in WWI. All the British WWII executions were of murderers or mutineers as cowardice, desertion etc were by then no longer death penalty offences in the UK.
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