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    Otto Johann Anton Skorzeny (12 June 1908 – 5 July 1975) was an Austrian-born German SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel) in the Waffen-SS during...
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  • Skorzeny may refer to: People Otto Skorzeny, (1908–1975), Austrian Waffen-SS officer Fritz Skorzeny, Austrian composer of classical music, see List of...
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    far-right organization founded in 1970 in Spain by former Waffen-SS Colonel Otto Skorzeny. It conceived itself as the military arm of the anti-Communist struggle...
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    military organisations.[citation needed] He ordered Hauptsturmführer Otto Skorzeny to track Mussolini and simultaneously ordered the paratroop General...
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    champion Otto Schily (born 1932), German politician Otto Schmitt (field hockey) (born 1965), Argentine field hockey goalkeeper Otto Skorzeny (1908–1975)...
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    country's surrender to the advancing Red Army, he sent commando leader Otto Skorzeny of the Waffen-SS and former special forces commander Adrian von Fölkersam...
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    criminals flee Europe.[self-published source?] It was led in part by Otto Skorzeny (Hitler's commando chief), as well as by German intelligence officer...
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    War II. The operation in Iran was to be led by SS-Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny of the Waffen SS. A group of agents from the Soviet Union, led by Soviet...
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    Otto Johann Maximilian Strasser (also German: Straßer, see ß; 10 September 1897 – 27 August 1974) was a German politician and an early member of the Nazi...
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  • Unternehmen Greif) was a special operation commanded by Waffen-SS commando Otto Skorzeny during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. The operation was the...
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  • supplies bound for the Soviet Union. Operation François was led by Otto Skorzeny, who sent the 502nd SS Jäger Battalion to parachute into Iran during...
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    Savitri was an associate in the post-war years of Françoise Dior, Otto Skorzeny, Johann von Leers, and Hans-Ulrich Rudel. She was also one of the founding...
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    Greif). The timing of the offensive meant that the Brigade Commander Otto Skorzeny had only 5 or 6 weeks to recruit and train a brand new unit. Within...
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    the trial in 1947 of the planner and commander of Operation Greif, Otto Skorzeny. He was found not guilty by a US military tribunal of a crime by ordering...
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  • including Die Spinne ("The Spider") run in part by Hitler's commando-chief Otto Skorzeny. Historian Daniel Stahl in his 2011 essay stated that the consensus...
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  • and Yossi Melman, Krug was killed near Munich by former Nazi commando Otto Skorzeny. According to Ronen Bergman, Krug was kidnapped in Munich by a Mossad...
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    Otto Ernst Remer (18 August 1912 – 4 October 1997) was a German Wehrmacht Army officer in World War II who played a major role in stopping the 20 July...
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    Heliopolis rocket factory killed five Egyptian workers, allegedly sent by Otto Skorzeny on behalf of the Mossad. Heinz Krug, 49, the chief of a Munich company...
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  • during the final months of World War II. German forces, commanded by Otto Skorzeny, were ordered to prepare to conduct a counter-offensive. However they...
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    participated in Operation Greif, and worked in close coordination with Otto Skorzeny. In January 1945, having posted to the Eastern Front, he fought against...
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  • (1922), a favorite of Hitler's favorite commando, SS-Standartenführer Otto Skorzeny. Joshua Rubinstein, reviewing the book for The New York Times, called...
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  • stated in the Ex parte Quirin, the Hostages Trial, and the trial of Otto Skorzeny and others). The order included measures designed to force military...
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    (including von Fölkersam) were transferred to SS-Standartenführer Otto Skorzeny's SS-Jäger-Bataillon 502 operating within SS-Jagdverband Mitte, but mostly...
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  • Germany's SS from 1943-1944. Formed in June 1943, the unit was commanded by Otto Skorzeny and was based at Schloß (chateau) Friedenthal just north of Berlin in...
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    needed] Later during the war the 502nd SS Jäger Battalion, commanded by Otto Skorzeny, sowed disorder behind the Allied lines by mis-directing convoys away...
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    concocted by Adolf Hitler, headed by Ernst Kaltenbrunner, and led by Otto Skorzeny, which was an alleged attempt to assassinate Stalin, Churchill, and...
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  • book The Train Robbers that the robbery was led by German commando Otto Skorzeny, and that Edwards was the person responsible for hitting Jack Mills...
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    Serrano Thomas Sewell Simon Sheppard Pekka Siitoin Otto Skorzeny Michiel Smit Benjamin Nathaniel Smith Otto Strasser Richard B. Spencer Kevin Alfred Strom...
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  • Fourth Reich one of their goals. Certain Nazi refugees, most notably Otto Skorzeny and Hans-Ulrich Rudel, were deeply involved with neo-Nazi networks and...
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    the laws of war. For example, at the trial of SS-Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny, his defense was based in part on the Field Manual published by the...
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