Posted on 03/29/2016 1:20:08 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
On September 11, 1962, a German scientist vanished. The basic facts were simple: Heinz Krug had been at his office, and he never came home.
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
He used to be called the most dangerous man in Europe.
we could use him over here. Put him to good use
Thanks for posting. Skorzeny was a fascinating character, an originator of the special forces concept.
This is the guy who created complete paranoia among the Allies around the time of the Battle of the Bulge. Gen. Bruce Clarke was even arrested by othere Americans.
Very interesting story. Thanks for posting.
The whole story sounded believable except for the recruitment part. Maybe there was more to it.
Skorzeny was the ultimate badass.He was a fullblown Nazi as well.
That’s schmiss on his face. A remnant of German aristocracy from the Bismark era.
“Fighting” university fraternities are still around.
Well, that is one succinct story. All that is missing is "yada yada yada and he never came home."
Really, if you must excerpt (and there was no need to excerpt here) can you at least TRY for some context?
That is a pretty normal recruitment story. It sounds like something you would read in
Gideon’s spies : the secret history of the Mossad by Gordon Thomas.
"yada yada yada and Really, if you must excerpt (and there was no need to excerpt here) can you at least TRY for some context?"It's called "a hook". Look into that for yourself in order to add a little spice to your boring existence. Then you might not be compelled to waste people's time by being a silly knee-biter.
Also, it is a long story with lots of photos - I thought best presented on the webpage it was created for. There are your reasons.
14 replies, a third from me and you. Need a better hook, my friend. :-)
Here, let me help (I had a feeling it would involve old Otto):
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On September 11, 1962, a German scientist vanished. The basic facts were simple: Heinz Krug had been at his office, and he never came home.
The only other salient detail known to police in Munich was that Krug commuted to Cairo frequently. He was one of dozens of Nazi rocket experts who had been hired by Egypt to develop advanced weapons for that country.
HaBoker, a now defunct Israeli newspaper, surprisingly claimed to have the explanation: The Egyptians kidnapped Krug to prevent him from doing business with Israel.
But that somewhat clumsy leak was an attempt by Israel to divert investigators from digging too deeply into the case — not that they ever would have found the 49-year-old scientist.
We can now report — based on interviews with former Mossad officers and with Israelis who have access to the Mossad’s archived secrets from half a century ago — that Krug was murdered as part of an Israeli espionage plot to intimidate the German scientists working for Egypt.
Moreover, the most astounding revelation is the Mossad agent who fired the fatal gunshots: Otto Skorzeny, one of the Israeli spy agency’s most valuable assets, was a former lieutenant colonel in Nazi Germany’s Waffen-SS and one of Adolf Hitler’s personal favorites among the party’s commando leaders. The Führer, in fact, awarded Skorzeny the army’s most prestigious medal, the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, for leading the rescue operation that plucked his friend Benito Mussolini out from the hands of his captors.
When America was “neutral”, before Dec 7, 1941 and after Britain was fighting the Nazi’s (Sep 1, 1939), the Texaco oil company would send its oil tankers out to sea and sell fuel to the German u-boats off the U.S. coast. They would sink British ships carrying supplies from the U.S. to Britain.
The president of Texaco met with an unfortunate pedestrian accident (he was run down) in New York City. The next president of Texaco didn’t sell oil to Nazi submarines.
British agents bumped off the turncoat Texaco president.
I believe this story was in the book, “A Bodyguard of Lies” about WWII intrigue.
A very satisfactory response including two thank yous. Sorry that bothers you so much to be petty about.
Don’t need your help in anything. Try helping yourself, as recommended.
Thanks for posting.
Very interesting story. Thanks for posting.You are very welcome my FRiends. :)
Don’t know why the onus should be on me to rewrite stories for A7. If they don’t know how to write a decent hook, or don’t care to, it’s not my affair. Interesting story. I cut and pasted the very opening paragraph of it. My work is done. It’s 2 AM in Israel. I’m going to bed. Thank you all for your respective inputs.
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