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 ...

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 ...