He was one of the greatest Special Ops guys.
Glorification of the Nazis.
Skorzeny was one of the greatest Special Operations guys, ever. Committed no “war crimes”, while pulling off unbelievable jobs.
At his trial, it was exposed that Allied Special forces used exactly the same tactics in their operations, like wearing enemy uniforms, etc.
That he was of great interest to U.S. and British Intelligence was no secret. He knew where the bodies were buried, and still had access to his network inside of East Germany.
As a side note, one of the Palestineans he trained in Egypt, in special ops, while serving as an advisor to Nasser, was a guy by the name of Yassar Arafat.
The Eagle Has Landed, a novel by Jack Higgins about an Nazi attempt to assassinate Churchill, featured an IRA operative who rendered assistance to a German commando unit tasked with the mission. In reality, a significant number of Irish pols would probably have backed - with men and equipment - a Nazi invasion of Britain, if they weren’t afraid of British invasion and occupation. The rancor against Britain ran deep, perhaps because of the Irish Potato Famine. In fact without the famine, Ireland might still be part of Britain, which might have meant much more left-wing British policies, if today’s Ireland is any indication.
Thanks for posting. I’ve never heard of this individual.
Interesting individual. When reading The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, from about 1943 to the the end of the war, Otto Skorzeny seemed to be involved in just about every Nazi special ops. When Berlin was surrounded, he seemed to enter and exit Berlin at will.
I read a book by a member of the Charlemagne Division, I think it was division but it could have been some other size unit. The author said that his outfit and Skorzeny were bitter enemies.
Despite that, when they were retreating from the Russians, Skorzeny and his men held a bridge until the very last minute, allowing them to escape before blowing it.
Tina Fey dueled with sabers?
This topic is from sometime earlier last year (2015), and thanks to the scotsman for posting it. A couple of updates of a sort are linked below, and I’m still recovering a little from reading the underlying articles. Anyway, I’m pinging the GGG list, even though I haven’t really considered adding this to the catalog, just because, well, d***, check all these out.
The Strange Case of a Nazi Who Became an Israeli Hitman
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3414995/posts
How a Nazi SS commando became a Mossad assassin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3415749/posts