Operation Rösselsprung was a combined airborne and ground assault by the German XV Mountain Corps and collaborationist forces on the Supreme Headquarters of the Yugoslav Partisans in the Bosnian town
Marshal Josip Broz Tito (furthest right) with his cabinet and principal staff officers in Drvar, days before the offensive.
The deployment of Partisan forces around Drvar is shown in red, with German movements shown in blue
SS-Sturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny apparently did not pass on crucial information about the location of Tito's cave in Drvar
Luftwaffe DFS230 glider as used for troop insertion during Operation Rösselsprung
Otto Skorzeny
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Otto Johann Anton Skorzeny was an Austrian-born German intelligence officer and commando who served as an SS-Obersturmbannführer within the Waffen-SS during the Second World War. Over the course of th
Operation Rösselsprung (1944)
…the 500th SS Parachute Battalion, but did not contribute much to the intelligence used to plan the raid. On Adolf Hitler's orders, SS-Sturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD, the intelligence branch of the SS), who had commanded the operation to rescue Mussolini in September 1943, was independently…
Skorzeny in 1943
Skorzeny (centre, binoculars hanging from neck) with the liberated Mussolini – 12 September 1943
Fieseler Fi 156 Storch used to rescue Mussolini