Otto Skorzeny - The Fuhrer's Commando Documentary

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[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Love all your topics but i prefer royalty the most! Athelstan please

[@jamesrogne2438]

Great video well put together thank you

[@thomasmcmahon9964]

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[@gonzaloferreirasienra3660]

Er war ein teuer deutscher Held. Herrlicher Mann.

[@adamthrussell5339]

Adam Thrussell Otto S.a committed Nazi. Big M Marathon 1981 Frankston to Melbourne Town Hall State of Victoria Australia. Yours sincerely Adam Thrussell

[@oleriis-vestergaard6844]

A danish Waffen - SS man was with Skorzeny freeing Mussolini on Gran Sasso - survived the ordeal and recieved the IRON CROSS 1 grade handed over by the chef himself (ADOLF Hitler) , after the war he was nicknamed Christoffer Irontie - in danish Cristoffer jernslips , died sometime in 1970 years.

[@tonyelberg7814]

LUCKY BUGGER

[@user-uj6uf9cz6t]

You can buy the Iron Cross 2nd class for 300 bucks ... but while I respect bravery for soldiers .. and own one including a Stalingrad badge ... I do not respect them .. I can sell them for a few dollars or just throw them in the garbage ..

[@oleriis-vestergaard6844]

@@user-uj6uf9cz6t You can do what ever you want to do , i dont care - i have had my collection of german medals and uniforms and helmets years back so I am over this interest and apparently you have done the same

[@iratitlinger]

I met some of his guys Jay Peak VT 2006. They were skier at 80ish. Really tough old shits.

[@yolandabrantley7282]

Fascinating story! Well presented and constructed.

[@garymensurati1631]

Agree 💯💯👍

[@abasudoh7459]

Bradley being arrested and Monty getting his tires shot out is wild😅😅

[@throbbinwood]

Glory days of the Reich! Monty was being his typical stuck up asshole self and is lucky he didn't get a back full of 9mm.

[@scriptsmith4081]

And failing the challenge by a G.I. who thought Chicago was the capital of Illinois is hysterical- Bradley tried to give him some demerits and had to be reminded it wasn't West Point.

[@NorceCodine]

I assure you no American knows today the capital of Illinois. Or Canada, Australia, or Ireland or New Zeeland. This is why military passwords are always baseball or football teams.

[@keithad6485]

Boldness and fearlessness seems to create good luck when it is needed which is at the core of the SAS motto 'Who Dares Wins'. Skorzeny seems to have lived by this SAS motto.

[@jamesharvard8786]

Thank you for this interesting insight. Had Skorzeny, been on the side of the Allies, and pursued his military success and exploits against Germany, and Nazisum, then he would have entered the History Books, as an heroic and highly decorated war veteran, possibly given the highest military awards and recognition for services to his country. The British press would have heralded him as a true hero, and someone for younger generations to aspire to………….

[@gaborczirjak4172]

@jamesharvard8786 I agree with you ! I was in the bookstore in USA when i noticed Skorzenys book . Because I.m interested in history and I read a lot about WW2, and Skorzeny, too, I always look for information from the other side too, I started to read the book, when a young man who work in the store walk by--Come here, i said to him, see this book ? Is was written in 1957 and took more then 60 years to get here to you in USA !--He was smiling and said--Don't you know the history is written by the victors ! Was good to hear this from a 20 years old young man, because 99% of the people don't think about that, or don't know about that ! Gabor Czirjak USA

[@polygonalfortress]

honestly i can't help to agree with you on that. what a shame that circumstance among other likely factors led to his daring and merit to being used for opression and the kidnapping of people for an utterly irrational regime

[@andrewfrancis7272]

Yeah but he wasn't on the side of the Allies. He was on the side of terror, mass murder and dictatorship. There is no honour to his memory at all. Stop with the revisionist bullshit to rehabilitate the reputations of those who don't deserve it.

[@Stephen-wb3wf]

One of the most interesting men in history. Worked in the special services of both Nazis and Israel. Captured Mussolini. Duelist as a youth. Incredible.

[@bepolite6961]

No he did not rescue Mussolini, the German Fallschirmjager rescued him. History needs to get this shit right FOR ONCE!. This guy forced himself into one of the gliders to accompany them on the mission. He also forced himself into the Storch aircraft that evacuated Mussolini. He was so big the aircraft was overloaded and the Storch almost stalled on take off, all because he insisted on escorting Mussolini to his Fuhrer. He nearly wound up killing Mussolini and saving the Italian partisans the job. No shots were fired during the raid, as soon as the gliders landed the Italian guards surrendered Mussolini to the Fallschirmjager. As usual this bloke took the credit for other units bravery and success!

[@desertdetroiter428]

I can’t believe the Israelis actually worked with this bastard. His actions in Hungary led to the wholesale slaughter of Hungarian Jews.

[@mojewjewjew4420]

guy really wanted to have his name remembered if not alteast correctly spelled.

[@anonymousunknown4925]

@Stephen-wb3wf There is no "dualism" in working for both the Nazis and for the Zionists, they are both the dark side...!

[@billotto602]

A Nazi worked for Israel ?????

[@L.I.123]

Please do a video on Leon Degrelle.🙏

[@johnmcgrath1929]

He was witness to the absolute horrors of the war and the absolute heroism of the men who served in the eastern front. No Movies were ever made to recognise them or what it was really about and indeed who were the good guys'

[@ifgwelf]

I second this suggestion. Leon was quite the soldier.

[@arvindsahai552]

Skorzeny is an awesome subject for Netflix but no one would dare...

[@bcm118]

There is literally a Skorzeny documentary on Netflix right now.

[@samiam5557]

He sounds like a Bond villain in his final years.

[@me0101001000]

I wouldn't be surprised if he was an inspiration for at least one.

[@dutchybag]

The villain with the steel teeth reminds of otto

[@keithad6485]

Is that Jaws> Richard Kiel? @@dutchybag

[@artair70]

@@me0101001000 The company he owned in South America was certainly based on a Bond faction

[@robertcurran2765]

Thank you! I've asked for this one a while!

[@Luckipete]

It certainly wasn't his troops who rescued Mussolini, it was the German Paratroops (fallschirmjager) not the SS, he went along as the poster boy and the paratroopers were not happy about it. He took all the credit for it.

[@dro355]

yessir, can attest. My grandfather was one of them! He migrated to Australia, lived to his late 80's, and was accepted by the ANZAC's as a combatant , professional soldier

[@paulfildes5489]

Skorzeny and 16 SS troopers joined the Fallschirmjäger to rescue Mussolini in this high-risk glider mission. Ten DFS 230 gliders, each carrying nine soldiers and a pilot, were towed by Henschel Hs 126 planes. The leader of the airborne operation, paratrooper-Oberleutnant Georg Freiherr von Berlepsch, entered the first glider, Skorzeny and his SS troopers sat in the fourth and fifth gliders. After landing, Skorzeny attacked the radio operator and his equipment and stormed into the hotel, being followed by his SS troopers and the paratroopers. Ten minutes after the beginning of the raid, Mussolini left the hotel, accompanied by the German soldiers. After a pro-SS propaganda coup at the behest of Himmler and Goebbels, Skorzeny and his special forces were granted the majority of the credit for the operation.

[@anastazija8197]

His glider took the lead while in air so he was first on the scene. The other two who were ahead of him got lost for a moment.

[@stanstelmach5326]

Where did you get your information from? As per Skorzeny book, Meine Kommando-unternehmen, he planned and was in command of this action being picked out from six officers by Hitler himself. He had volunteers from his special SS unit Friedenthal plus supporting paratroopers from the 2-nd Parachute company commanded by Leutnant von Berlepsch and other units, commanded by major Mors secured the entry to the valley below. Skorzeny and his seven men stormed the hotel Campo Imperatore and freed Mussolini. Interestingly, out of 12 gliders, four turned around and returned to base and Skorzeny said, he never found out why. Being responsible for Mussolini, Skorzeny accompanied the Duce to Vienna and then to Munich.

[@anastazija8197]

@@stanstelmach5326 you are correct but you need to keep in mind that his own records are often a bit exaggerated and are always picturing him in the best possible light. Sometimes he leaves out other people who are also (or even more) responsible for carrying out a mission.

[@keithad6485]

I am currently reading a couple of books on Otto Skorzeny to get a feel for him and to get an understanding of how he thought and operated. 'My Commando Missions' by Otto himself and 'Commando Extraordinary' by Charles Foley. Skorzeny really did live by the SAS motto - Who Dares Wins. Skorzeny states he met David Stirling, founder of the Brit SAS and 'Wild' Bill Donovan of the OSS, after the War. Those meetings would have been fascinating to listen to had they been audio or film recorded. I am reading these books as background research for a novel set in Europe in WW2 which I am writing which includes Otto Skorzeny as organiser for a fictional commando operation carried out towards the end of the War. He is a fascinating character. I have read elsewhere that some claim he grabbed the glory of Luftwaffe Fallschirmjaeger for the snatching of Mussolini from his imprisonment at Grand Sasso. According to Foley's book and Skorzeny's book, these were not fallschirmjaeger but his own commandos dressed as fallschirmjaeger. I would like to research this aspect some more and if anyone knows in which books, the use of Luftwaffe fallschirmjaeger for the snatching of Mussolini is established, please can you let me know the title and author so I can check this out. If it is established he claimed success re the Mussolini falsely, this will alter how I write Otto into the novel.

[@martyconroy3786]

Michael Caine's fictional character in The Eagle Has Landed is loosely based on Skorzeny

[@sonnysantana5454]

no he isn't try to read the fictional book that you're talking about about the Michael caine's character is a fictional character and skorzeny is in both the book and movie

[@keithad6485]

Not sure I agree with you on this one. Caine character openly protected a jew at the rail line, which led to his banishment to channel island. could you imagine Skorzeny risking his career in similar fashion? I cannot.

[@GeorgeSemel]

He was a product of the time. He like many did his duty as it was understood at the time. I don't second guess such men and their decisions. Since I come from a different time and place. If anything he was a legend in his own time. I was a 20 years old and starting my second year as a commercial pilot in 1975, I heard he had died on the new and well left to go to work. I flew a canceled check run for a bank back then.

[@enclaveprotectron]

Interestingly, Skorzeny had 2 Irishmen in his commandos

[@marionapoleoni4502]

Lots of foreign SS in the field. 👊🏻

[@jaxn13]

And he lived there for a time after the war if I remember correctly.

[@jacobweinstein9136]

​@@marionapoleoni4502 Gross. The SS were crueller than cruel.

[@dannyevilcat]

​@@jacobweinstein9136As an organization it was evil, yes, but it had many different facets, and it's membership was a bit more nuanced.

[@enclaveprotectron]

@@jacobweinstein9136 The Waffen-SS was made up of fighters from all over the world and some of the bravest men alive at the time.

[@juanecheyt]

He was an ACE in self image management, thats for sure. He knew exactly when and where to be for the picture..... Goebbels did the rest.

[@johnnyboy18778]

My grand father and his brother both knew and worked for otto in martinstown House in co. kildare Ireland. From what I was told, he talked very little to anyone.

[@morganlefay2599]

Ty for sharing, fascinating to a genealogist like me, ps german , Irish, et al!

[@user-tb6uj9hz6k]

Real man, do more...talk less.

[@ltipst2962]

Traitor, a Nazi supporter of Jewish murder. I wouldn't be proud. Disgusting.

[@ryancarroll2886]

Sooo, why didn't they kill him?

[@cw4608]

I love these videos. I actually only listen to them while doing something, but they are so interesting. The narrators are excellent. Thank you.

[@kixigvak]

My dad was in the American arny during the Battle of the Bulge. A checkpoint caught some Germans pretending to be Americans because one of the GIs thought it was strange that the enlisted men in a jeep were polite to the officers. They started asking the krauts all the questions about Mel Ott's batting average etc and it was soon apparent that these weren't Americans.

[@KermitFrazierdotcom]

Go on, please... FINISH THE STORY!!!

[@ezekielpotter294]

They were caught Mel ott is a singer not a ball player

[@fox224]

So glad I found this channel. Great job 👏

[@gergemall]

Love your channel ❤.

[@nicholasdumon5579]

Otto’s saboteur shenanigans behind enemy lines should be comically produced on screen. Something akin to Jojo Rabbit!

[@marionapoleoni4502]

Would be great. A few films about him of different styles would also be nice 😅

[@nicholasdumon5579]

@@marionapoleoni4502 i imagine him pink panther strutting from (allied) direction sign to sign flipping them and calling it sabotage LOL

[@Mjdeben]

Haha I know right. Sounds like a Benny Hill routine.

[@therealuncleowen2588]

Fought for the bad guys, but fought very well. That rare species of magnificent bastard. He reminds me of Flashman. He managed to get himself a posting after fighting on the Eastern front in 1941 outside Moscow that wasn't quite as dangerous, partly no doubtby looking the part and talking a good game. Then he managed to scuttle any suicidal plans. When a plan came up that was fighting 200 Italians, yeah we can do that one. Then later, wait we'll be fighting Hungarians, yeah we can do that one. Then okay we're going to go behind American lines, I'll command that one from headquarters. When he was in placed in command of an actual panzer division against the Soviets, he pulled out as soon as he could come up with a good excuse I'm certain that by the time of werewolf, he was well practiced at jollying along the high command but I'm also certain he never really intended to fight a last stand in the Alps. Goes to Berlin right at the end to meet Hitler and didn't even stay long enough to get his medal pinned on. Lol. I'm not saying that I admire the son-of-a-b****, but he obviously didn't have much of a role in the Holocaust, or the Israelis would have assassinated him rather than work with him. He's kind of worth a laugh because he did carry out some impressive missions while always making sure that his own chance for survival was high. Just about the only attitude he could have had that would have seen him survive in that kind of a crazy regime.

[@ardshielcomplex8917]

Good synopsis on Skorzeny, probably the best one on this thread.

[@6876I]

Bad guys from clueless sheeps perspective.

[@therealuncleowen2588]

@@6876I The Nazis were the bad guys from the world's perspective.

[@polygonalfortress]

@@6876I good guys from a clueless highly stupid goosestepping "free thinker" perspective, off to march sheep

[@shehansenanayaka3046]

Brilliant video. Brillaint as always. We always appreciate your hard work and dedication towards these videos. Your fan from Sri Lanka ❤️🇱🇰🤝🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@alexfromboston8303]

A true bad ass.

[@ottoskorzeny9805]

Thank you 😊

[@Pootycat8359]

10:35 Doesn't he mean, "Too OLD"? Actually, following the Japanese attack, my father (B. 1910) was rejected for service in the U.S. Army, because he was 31.

[@namAlexander]

very interesting , good as always

[@bigboyblue7181]

He was a Soldier.

[@asullivan4047]

Interesting and informative. Excellent photography job enabling viewers to better understand what/whom the orator was describing. Professional class A research project!!! Special thanks to veteran soldiers. Sharing personal information/combat experiences making this documentary more authentic and possible. Fighting/perishing/surviving knowing certain death/debilitating wounds were often times possible. Regardless of the consequences still advanced forward. That's true grit style determination to succeed. Germany was somewhat still in the war mid 1943. Afterwards fighting a slowly defensive retreating action. Uncle Otto didn't seem to make much difference in the out come of the war. He still had a following attend his funeral. That says something about him.

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Love your videos guys! You're infinitely better than most history teachers!🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤

[@VKalyanaRaman-gz9in]

He was a man of extraordinary capacity and courage coupled with street smartness.

[@ottoheinrichwehmann2252]

Kristallnacht happened because the assassination of the German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan, a 17-year-old German-born Polish Jew living in Paris.

[@kevgjkd1970]

That... and rabid anti-semitism!

[@joeshmoe8345]

Thanks for sharing

[@leslieanderson7899]

I adore you two! Your content is even more powerful as you have shared your challenges, I know it has been a difficult choice to do so. ❤

[@leonardobazani7242]

Do you can make a profile of Major Fritz Hummel, the Fuhrer's 007?

[@morganlefay2599]

I'm a Hummel, in Wisconsin, the whole German thing was curious to me as a child...

[@aspieanarchist5439]

"Fearless Leader" of Pottsylvania from "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle" cartoon and the 2000 Universal Pictures half animated/ mostly live action film was modeled after Skorzeny.

[@Peter-gv2gn]

He certainly led a life, what times they were, how about Otto Skozhany and David Sterling having a few pints together, to be a fly on the wall at that event would be something.

[@malvinacarabas5768]

By far , the most interesting and impressive personalities on this channel are of the nazis . Thank you !

[@igorsvacic217]

Skorzeny dint played a minor role in Yugoslavia. He actually single handedly saved the life of JB Tito

[@marionapoleoni4502]

Such a BADASS! Love him. My opinion (and many others’) ✊🏻

[@marysalisbury9270]

Too bad he worked for Hitler.

[@oleriis-vestergaard6844]

There is one thing Otto Skorzeny was and thats being lucky

[@tiagomonteiro130]

Since when is being skilled lucky

[@oleriis-vestergaard6844]

@@tiagomonteiro130 If you have read about Ottos life so yes he was skilled but he was also very lucky , maybe its the same sometimes

[@grampajim1595]

Scarface himself

[@michaelmallal9101]

USSR never appeared in International Military Court for invasion of Finland and Poland except as judges.

[@jerzyszmal2722]

Brilliant point and/or remark !!!!! I agree with you 200%

[@richardstumpf2955]

It was not only the USSR but also the Americans and the British, in Nurnberg there actually changed the Law so America could not put in front of a Court as requested by one of the American Defence Councils, the Americans and the British also committed War Crimes by shooting Geran Prisoners

[@daviddellit8344]

Interesting. Thank you.

[@jamesellsworth9673]

Skorzeny seems mainly to have been a planner and organizer. While he DID go on the high-profile raid to spring Mussolini from detention, he is not shown here as personally having commando skills.

[@jamesmaxwell3434]

Can you do General Blaskowitz. He “fell down the stairs” just before his Nüremberg trial.

[@MothaLuva]

23:42 Actually they were very narrow. They just had a pretty long wingspan. But that’s true for all gliders.

[@williamlilleston1595]

Actualy, England & France DID have an option in September 1939. Neither country was ready for war, Both countrys had suffered heavely in WW I and it was still fresh in the minds of the populations, nor was either one able in ANY military way to assist Poland. Their declaration of unity with Poland was just a vane attempt to bluff Hitler into not invading. Had England / France backed down, (when there was nothing they could do), There was a very good chance that war in the WEST would not have happened or at the very least been postponed by a few years or until and if Germany had defeated Russia. Yes, France and Germany had fought numerious wars in the past and really did not like each other. However, Hitler did not want to go to war with England and would probably have left France alone because of the alliance with England. Based upon these facts, and the fact that Germany DID NOT declare war on France / England, it could be said that as far as WW II in Europe, England & France actualy started it with the declaration of war upon Germany.

[@jerzyszmal2722]

Both France & England signed treaty with Poland and after Hitler attacked Poland they both BETRAYED POLAND like cowards....i despise both France & England.....Poland on 17th of Sept. 1939 was ALSO attacked by Stalin Communist Soviet Union and Poland was ALONE fighting 2 enemies, but mostly Germans

[@wangtianlong1]

Hitler's demands on Poland had some legitimacy, he asked for those lands that had previously belonged to Germany and been given to Poland in the Treaty of Versailles. It constantly amazes me that historians fail to mention this. It gives a completely different view of the reasons for the invasion of Poland. And this is simply a factual comment on history.

[@jerzyszmal2722]

So according to your point of view looks like the attack on Poland on 1st Sept.1939 could be justified, right? I just want to throw up, because this is purely BS !!!

[@Bigsky1991]

After I worked on Schindlers Lust and Band of Brothers, I was moved/motivated to write a screenplay about Skorzeny.... I'm shopping it around this year. Let's see what happens...

[@keithad6485]

About thirty years ago, I read a book on Skorzeny written (from memory) by a journalist who interviewed him in Spain well after the War. I have tried to find this book again, but with no success. Does any one know the title of this book. From memory, the cover was predominantly green. If you can help, thank you.

[@ryancork923]

Was it not. Hitler's favourite soldier?

[@keithad6485]

I will check this out. Thank you @@ryancork923

[@jackoliver7506]

Was it called my little red pony?

[@katherinecollins4685]

Interesting documentary

[@tawnikatrucking9422]

Could you do a video on Genghis Khan?

[@Cromwelldunbar]

A most excellent document for research and presentation. As for Skorzeny, certainly a brave and clever person, yet sadly and definitely one whose heart was not on the right side, to say the very least. I fully agree with your own closing and conclusive observations

[@6876I]

But he was on the right side.

[@jasonweaver6524]

Well, his heart was not on the self-righteous Allied side.

[@polygonalfortress]

clown replies smh...

[@mavjimbo]

One interesting dude for sure

[@mikeyoung490]

Anex you mean gaind back German land that was theirs before WWI

[@MWM-dj6dn]

A thousand greetings, great admiration, respect and appreciation for your esteemed channel, which is full of accurate, useful and important information. Thank you for your great efforts in presenting these wonderful documentary works. I wish you continued success and all the best. I request each of you, please, to translate it into Arabic. Make sure the number of your followers will increase very significantly. I ask God Almighty to protect you and take care of you at every moment and step

[@troyott2334]

Otto the Great Aryan Superman

[@ottoskorzeny9805]

Thanks buddy 😊

[@robertlast3052]

Sounds like he was more of an opportunist to me.

[@marysalisbury9270]

I agree.

[@brianmurray3791]

What high profile ‘hero’ types aren’t?

[@keithad6485]

Using this as a judge of Skorzeny's character, then this could also be said of David Stirling.

[@scottiboombaloddi]

i think Otto was very cunning and Swift he knew how to do it and when to do it

[@stuartahrens6775]

I think that the man was a hero

[@wendellgamstead4933]

Why did Britain and France not feel obligated to declare war on the USSR for invading Poland as well ?

[@jerzyszmal2722]

Excellent statement and/or remark. Poland was left alone to fight 2 enemies German & Soviet Union.....but actually fought German and really did not have a chance to fight USSR.....Hitler & Stalin at that time were ...................FRIENDS, who signed Ribbentrop-Molotov agreement on Sept. 23rd 1939 in Moscow with a SECRET addendum to divide Poland between themself.

[@wendellgamstead4933]

@@jerzyszmal2722 Most Americans have no idea that the USSR invaded Poland in the first place.

[@Leviathan762-zh4lq]

You're asking too many questions 🤫

[@patstefanick9928]

anyone know where the photo of the cable cars at 49:54 was taken?

[@claudio8889]

Rio de Janeiro.

[@JB-uo9qo]

I read somewhere he actually did some work for the Israelis. If so we're talking professionalism both ways...0 emotion.

[@mojewjewjew4420]

Ah yes the based mastermind that worked for Germany AND Israel.

[@rafisanders]

He basically built the Israeli special forces. Which is interesting and ironic

[@sonnysantana5454]

no he didn't way before WW-2' the jews in Palestine were learning irregular warfare from the great orde wingate who taught and help them develop their Special night Squads and during the war many were in #10' commando and the SIG another limey made irregular warfare unit what skorzeny did for the Israelis was finger a few low level nazi's and spell what he did for the arabs

[@the101connection]

Wow, great channel. I am launching a new online radio in Perth Western Australia and would love to promote the channel and restream your shows, with your permission. Regards Michael

[@keithad6485]

I am in one of those in the mythical states in the East. What is the online radio web address?

[@asintonic]

as a traditional Catholic and so was Otto cremation at that time in history was absolutely forbiden and was Not done!

[@iamrichrocker]

if Wil Lyman retires plz apply for his job..

[@psych_1123]

What an absolute legend

[@valperks5416]

Never heard of him thank you for your informed documentary as a former soldier history is written by the winners both sides did the same the losers get hunted the winners get medals war is hell prosecute all or non when its over only way to show humanity thanl you again for an interesting peice of history so sad its all happening again

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

It was a super informative video about that man who remains his loyalty to radical rights politics in Western Europe unquestionably....besides, he participated in organizing new Nazi political movements ...may be he helped Israel 🇮🇱 mosad through abortions the strategic Egypt 🇪🇬 missiles project against Israel 🇮🇱 as temporary passively relationship

[@Frontalschaden]

But this is somewhat historically misrepresented. Skorzeny's only mission was to find out Mussolini's whereabouts. The task of liberation was given to the XI.Fliegerkorps under the command of General Student. He commissioned the I./FschJgRgt 7 (FschJgLehr Btl und command of Major Harald Mors) with the task. Skorzeny was only allowed as a guest with a few of his men in one glider, because he had done a good reconnaissance job. Skozeny was never tasked with freeing the Duce. However, as an impostor, he always liked to portray it that way himself. A brave man indeed, but he wasn't too serious about the truth.

[@TheYeti308]

Spunky fellow this Skorzeny . !

[@forlornfool221]

Good, Bad, Action Hero

[@conceptalfa]

👍👍👍!!!

[@stuartahrens6775]

What a interesting man and a very good planer. To bad thay never Court Tito.

[@scaredy-cat]

I’m very happy they’re gone

[@IMBrute-ir7gz]

Too bad you didn't include the firing squad execution of the three Operation Greif volunteer infiltrators by the American army. This footage has been around for a long time. Couldn't you find it?

[@polygonalfortress]

i would suspect that it's simply to avoid demonetization, not sure if it's really warrant in adding some footage of some infiltrators being executed when the whole video already has substance

[@Wolf-hh4rv]

Surely “too old……” for service……”

[@Richard_Lush]

Who’s the guy in the title pic? Sure doesn’t look like Otto to me.

[@199diesel]

Flying the plane onto the mountain area was a feat of pilot ability. Everything else is tiny compared to what other special forces commanders achieved in ww2. I think he was a second rate puppet of propaganda, and a very good soldier only. The black prince on the Italian side was more of the real thing a lot of the time

[@dankaradovic5986]

Otto a tué Nikola Tesla ,07.01.1943.

[@santinoacquista2135]

It is as it was

[@morganlefay2599]

Mousalini oh reminds me of someone...power at one point does not give you supreme power wherever you decide, a hole!

[@timdebruijne9127]

Wow, I had the same thought, but I was thinking about Mussolini, the Italian fascist dictator. I will look into Mousalini. I recently did some research on Hetlir, Stilan, Chirchull and Reesefold, but Google let me down.

[@morganlefay2599]

@@timdebruijne9127 yeah was thinking of him, need to research more, as a newlyish discovererd ish italian, it's tough to see the flaws. Seeing many royal, some not, but of Renaissance days, just makes me proud to know me, viva Italia

[@marionapoleoni4502]

@@morganlefay2599stay the course. You’ll see the truth. 🇮🇹

[@curtisbrayfield7707]

He is an interesting person. I wonder if the German high command failed to understand what special operations really were, or if even he knew. It seems most of these operations were too large and clumsy to really be "special", and spreading small elements of troops out behind enemy lines without direct control probably sounded crazy to them. Then again, I think the OSS and SOE activities behind enemy lines were largely exaggerated after the war as well, since there is little evidence that partisans were very effective in the grand scheme of things.

[@Pootycat8359]

11:28 I disagree. The "Waffen SS" were the LEAST picky about "racial purity," of the different branches of the SS, accepting, for instance, Bosnian Muslims, Ukrainian Slavs, French, Belgians, etc....and even volunteers from Manchukuo (Japanese occupied Manchuria). The "Waffen SS" were the military branch of the organization. It was the main, non-military SS that only accepted "pure-bred" Aryans (or, should I say, "Aryans" as defined by the Nazis, not the REAL ones, who had conquered India, Iran, Iberia, & Britain, in the days of old).

[@andrewfrancis7272]

I started watching this wanting to find something to admire about Skorzeny as an undoubtedly talented soldier. But it's pretty clear that from early on he was a committed Nazi. He was SS and complicit in many of their crimes. Then managed to weasel his way out of post-war retribution --- To hell with him. He lived much longer than he deserved to.

[@towgod7985]

So this guy was a nobody until the Mussolini operation. Wow!

[@kevanharris3883]

Try getting things right the rest of Czechoslovakia was not annexed in 1939 A. Czechoslovakia no longer existed Slovakia having succeeded to become a separate state which was never taken over by the Germans - it became a minor axis ally. B. The rump Czeck state was incorporated as a protectorate of the German state, which is not quite the same as an annexed state It was ruled by the Germans but was not an actual part of the Third Reich, thus as a protectorate it's borders were guaranteed by the Germans which is what Hitler had agreed to at Munich Spiritually it broke the Munich agreement but technically Hitler could argue it did not as he had only stated He would guarantee its borders as a protectorate he thus did that. Britain and France may have believed that the rump Czeck state would be a totally independent state but whether that was an actual defined clause of the agreement or not I have no Idea.

[@scrubbwhite291]

Skorzeny is a hero anti-Commmunist.

[@ForageGardener]

Nazis were socialists they did all sorts of socialists bullshit just like the Soviets.

[@bigdadddyd123]

😂😂😂

[@wendyHew]

If only we could all go back and help with the invasion of Russia

[@tonyelberg7814]

HE WAS A REAL MAN WHO MADE HIS FUTURE, THE WORLD WILL NEVER SEE ANOTHER LIKE HIM.

[@ivanabasic862]

Fascinating man. The moment when he dressed as a woman at some garden party bought my simpaties for life🤣

[@TheFailedmessiah]

What do you do when Adolph Hitler tells you "Youre his top guy" then youre his top guy. Youre the guy i go to when i want to get shit done. Imagine adolph hitler telling you this. Thats crazy to me.

[@dionysiandaze]

Lmfao Sammy boy

[@branden0309]

Skorzeny single handedly put together what we know as the Muslim Brotherhood today

[@lethalchocobo1886]

lol

[@kentuck1387]

❤COMMANDO EXTRAORDINAIRE AND FRIEND OF THE IRISH REPUBLIC ARMY❤

[@lalo-kt4te]

Hitler lived to 107