His name, hitherto barely known, was Otto Skorzeny. He had come – he told Mussolini – on the personal orders of Adolf Hitler to escort him back to Berlin. This, at least, was indisputably ...

Otto Skorzeny was born in Vienna ... he was pictured outside a cafe on Paris's Champs Elysées. The photo appeared in the French press the next day, causing him to flee to Salzburg to evade ...

In a daring mountaintop raid, Nazi commando Otto Skorzeny launched an impossible mission to rescue Mussolini from a fortress prison in the Italian Alps—changing the course of World War II in the ...

Notorious SS commander Otto Skorzeny worked as a Mossad agent after the war, it has been claimed Getty Images An SS officer and personal favourite of Adolf Hitler worked as a hitman for Israeli ...