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
Skorzeny in 1943
Skorzeny as commander of the Waffen SS Sonderverband z.b.V. Friedenthal special forces unit, 1943
Skorzeny (centre, binoculars hanging from neck) with the liberated Mussolini – 12 September 1943
Fieseler Fi 156 Storch used to rescue Mussolini
Operation Damocles
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Operation Damocles was a covert campaign of the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad in August 1962 which targeted German scientists and technicians, formerly employed in Nazi Germany's rocket program,
Otto Skorzeny
…expected that he would be assassinated. After undergoing instruction and training in Mossad's facilities in Israel, the rumoured work for Mossad included assassinating German rocket scientist Heinz Krug who was working for the Egyptian government and posting a letter bomb which killed five Egyptians at the Egyptian military rocket site Factory 333. He…
Former SS-Standartenführer Otto Skorzeny (shown in 1963) was supposedly hired for Operation Damocles