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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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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