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Otto Skorzeny

SS-Sturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny was the most colourful and the most famous Waffen SS commander during WWII. His daring rescue of Mussolini from Gran Sasso made him world famous and his subsequent missions during the Ardennes Offensive and in Hungary during Operation Panzerfaust gave him the the title among the Allies of "The Most Dangerous Man in Europe" His extraordinary wartime career was one of high risk and adventure ...

Otto Skorzeny was born on June 12th, 1908 to a typical middle class Viennese family. He attended the University of Vienna to study engineering. He joined the Nazi Party in the twenties and signed up with the SS. During WWII he proved himself to be a superior soldier and was quickly promoted from enlistee to non-commissioned officer, and finally to officer. Skorzeny participated in the invasion of Holland and France, the invasion of the Balkans, and finally in the invasion of Russia, where he was wounded in