SS-Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny became a legend in his own time. ‘Hitler’s favourite commando’ acquired a reputation as a man of daring, renowned for his audacious 1943 mission to extricate Mussolini from a mountain-top prison. Based on extensive new research among previously overlooked documents held in the archives of British intelligence, the Nuremberg trials, the CIA, Eire External Affairs, the Soviet NKVD, and the SS.
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SS-Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny became a legend in his own time. ‘Hitler’s favourite commando’ acquired a reputation as a man of daring, renowned for his audacious 1943 mission to extricate Mussolini from a mountain-top prison. Based on extensive new research among previously overlooked documents held in the archives of British intelligence, the Nuremberg trials, the CIA, Eire External Affairs, the Soviet NKVD, and the SS.