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Otto Skorzeny
1908–1975
- Nationality
- Austria
- Occupation
- military officer
Otto Johann Anton Skorzeny (12 June 1908 â 5 July 1975) was an Austrian-born German SS-Obersturmbannführer in the Waffen-SS during World War II.
Incarceration history
Facilities
- Nuremberg Court PrisonDates unknown
Biography
Otto Johann Anton Skorzeny (12 June 1908 â 5 July 1975) was an Austrian-born German SS-Obersturmbannführer 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 that 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 the Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser. He was allegedly an advisor to Argentinian president Juan Perón. He died of lung cancer on 5 July 1975 in Madrid at the age of 67.
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