Otto Skorzeny was born in Vienna, Austria in 1908 and was once described as 'the most dangerous man in Europe'. His most famous operation involved the rescuing of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in ...

This video recounts the daring 1943 mission by German special forces to rescue Benito Mussolini after his arrest in Italy. We ...

Otto Skorzeny pictured in his Nazi uniform, and working on his farm in County Kildare He was Hitler's favourite Nazi commando, famously rescuing Mussolini from an Italian hilltop fortress, and was ...

The man who tumbled out of the first, crash-landed, German glider and immediately assumed command of the situation looked every inch the expedition’s leader. He was enormously tall, Herculean in build ...

A notorious former SS officer known as “Hitler’s commando” reportedly worked as an assassin for Israeli intelligence. Lt-Col Otto Skorzeny, once described by British and American intelligence as “the ...

Otto Skorzeny was one of Adolf Hitler’s most trusted henchmen, lived as a farmer in County Kildare from 1959 following Conor Cruise O’Brien's intervention. Following World War II, Irish politician ...

Otto Skorzeny (1908-1975) was one of the first members of the Austrian Nazi party in 1935 and a leading member of the Vienna Gymnastic Club, a Nazi front organisation which played a prominent role in ...

Otto Skorzeny was commissioned by Adolf Hitler to terrorize Allied Troops during and especially towards the end of World War 2. Skorzeny is the father of modern Terrorism and Guerrilla Warfare. His ...

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Otto Skorzeny (1908-1975) was one of the first members of the Austrian Nazi party in 1935 and a leading member of the Vienna Gymnastic Club, a Nazi front organisation which played a prominent role in ...