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Skorzeny, Otto

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Skorzeny, Otto (1908–1975)

German colonel; he commanded various special forces units in World War II and was a specialist in irregular warfare.

He commanded the special unit which rescued Mussolini from imprisonment September 1943 and kidnapped the son of Admiral Horthy October 1944, forcing Horthy to abdicate and thus foiling his plan to sue for a separate peace. In December 1944 he caused chaos in the Battle of the Bulge with the deployment of squads of English-speaking soldiers, dressed in US uniforms and driving US vehicles, inserted behind the US lines to mystify and confuse. He was tried for war crimes at Nürnberg and acquitted.



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