Posted on 01/01/2015 1:14:08 PM PST by the scotsman
'He was Hitler's favourite Nazi commando, famously rescuing Mussolini from an Italian hilltop fortress, and was known as "the most dangerous man in Europe".
After World War Two, he landed in Argentina and became a bodyguard for Eva Perón, with whom he was rumoured to have had an affair.
So when Otto Skorzeny arrived in Ireland in 1959, having bought a rural farmhouse in County Kildare, it caused much intrigue.'
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
A pipe in the sleeve is the tool of choice in the knockout game now.
The famine and about about 500 other reasons.
Dueling ... the earlier term limits approach.
Simon Weisenthal would disagree, since he refused to take him off the "hunt" list. Mossad forged the papers to get Skorzeny to work for them.
The only guy of more interest was Hitler’s intended successor: Hans Ulrich Rudel.
The guy never stopped being a committed Nazi, helped German war criminals escaped, had a lucrative business career in South America, and was made welcome again in Germany (and caused all sorts of problems...). Died 1982.
Tell me about it. From the subject, to the various other comments ... And I'm reading it over a year later.
Thank you. There is no doubt that the man was brave, bold, and cunning. Competent and accomplished, maybe not so much. A concise review of the SS propaganda that built the Skorzeny mythology can be read here:
Himmler had to pay one of his fellow students to mark him.
Germany had some weird quirks long before the Nazi's popped up.
Either that or eliminate the Secret Service entirely.
The original definition of a ‘Tyrant’ was someone who needed to go around with security because they were afraid of the populace.
“No elected official should ever be out of rifle range of their constituents” as the old saying goes.
YMMV
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