[Luke21]

He was a saboteur of the highest order and a free agent. He was the German James Bond without all the Roger Moore trappings.

He would work for Nasser one minute and the Mossad the next. A fascinating and forgotten figure of history.

[robowombat]

Skorzeny’s memoirs are fascinating. They first appeared in a heavily redacted version in the 50’s . Two much more complete editions appeared in the last few years. There is one version published by Schiffer and another ‘edited’ by Craig Luther and Hugh P Taylor offered by James Bender. Of the two the Bender version seems the most complete. It is, like all of Bender's books beautifully produced and of the highest quality and it is expensive , $50+.It is fascinating reading Skorzeny’s text and realizing how carefully he chose his words and how he used military euphemisms to pass over events he wished to air brush.

[vetvetdoug]

Skorzeny was dropped with around fifty other SS troops near Tehran to assassinate Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill in the German Operation Long Jump. Had it not been for a bit of double agent good luck they came close to being successful.