Nazi Germany (1932–1945) Francoist Spain (1950–1975) Peronist Argentina United Arab Republic (military advisor to Nasser)
Service/branch
Schutzstaffel
Rank
Obersturmbannführer, intelligence agent
Commands held
Sonder Lehrgang Oranienburg
SS Panzer Brigade 150
Battles/wars
World War II
Eastern Front
Operation Oak
Operation Panzerfaust
Battle of the Bulge (Operation Greif)
Awards
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
Other work
Civil engineer[1]
Otto Johann Anton Skorzeny (12 June 1908 – 5 July 1975) was an Austrian-born German SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel) in the Waffen-SS during World War II. During the war, he was involved in a number of operations, including the removal from power of Hungarian Regent Miklós Horthy and the Gran Sasso raid which rescued Benito Mussolini from captivity. Skorzeny led Operation Greif in which German soldiers infiltrated Allied lines wearing their enemies' uniforms. As a result, he was charged in 1947 at the Dachau Military Tribunal with breaching the 1907 Hague Convention, but was acquitted.
Skorzeny escaped from an internment camp in 1948, hiding out on a Bavarian farm as well as in Salzburg and Paris before eventually settling in Francoist Spain. In 1953, he served as a military advisor to Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser. He was allegedly an advisor to Argentinian president Juan Perón.[2][3] Skorzeny died of lung cancer on 5 July 1975 in Madrid at the age of 67.
^Gilbert, Adrian (25 June 2019). "Kursk: Clash of Armor". Waffen-SS: Hitler's Army at War. Da Capo Press (published 2019). p. 248. ISBN 9780306824661. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
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^Crutchley, Peter (30 December 2014). "How did Hitler's scar-faced henchman become an Irish farmer?". BBC News. Archived from the original on 30 December 2014. Retrieved 25 December 2016.
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of war during the attack. In another trial, former German commando OttoSkorzeny and nine officers from the Panzer Brigade 150, were found not guilty...
Alfons Sassen (Ecuador), [citation needed] and, in Madrid, Spain, OttoSkorzeny. In the 1970s, Sassen among others worked as a PR-consultant for Chile's...
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Fourth Reich one of their goals. Certain Nazi refugees, most notably OttoSkorzeny and Hans-Ulrich Rudel, were deeply involved with neo-Nazi networks and...
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during the final months of World War II. German forces, commanded by OttoSkorzeny, were ordered to prepare to conduct a counter-offensive. However they...
distinction was settled by a military tribunal in the postwar trial of OttoSkorzeny, who led Operation Greif, an infiltration mission in which German commandos...
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and Yossi Melman, Krug was killed near Munich by former Nazi commando OttoSkorzeny. According to Ronen Bergman, Krug was kidnapped in Munich by a Mossad...
from Hungary. Shortly after this, the unit came under the command of OttoSkorzeny and was absorbed into SS-Sonderverband z.b.V. Friedenthal in June 1943...
concocted by Adolf Hitler, headed by Ernst Kaltenbrunner, and led by OttoSkorzeny, which was an alleged attempt to assassinate Stalin, Churchill, and...
(including von Fölkersam) were transferred to SS-Standartenführer OttoSkorzeny's SS-Jäger-Bataillon 502 operating within SS-Jagdverband Mitte, but mostly...
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(1922), a favorite of Hitler's favorite commando, SS-Standartenführer OttoSkorzeny. Joshua Rubinstein, reviewing the book for The New York Times, called...
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Nazi Germany (1932–1945) 
Francoist Spain (1950–1975) 
Peronist Argentina 
United Arab Republic (military advisor to Nasser) 
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