Otto Skorzeny was known as the "Most Dangerous Man in Europe" but was he simply an opportunist, PR triumph and a fraud? Comments. News. Stuart Smith. 14:51, 09 Oct 2018 Updated 15:21, 09 Oct 2018.

Also in 1972, Otto Skorzeny met various South African generals. One of his close friends and colleagues in South Africa was Lieutenant-General Friedrich Wilhelm von Mellethin, ex- Chief of Staff of 4 ...

Otto Skorzeny. It was he who bluffed his way past Mussolini's Italian guards using a captured Italian general and freed the former dictator alive.

Lt-Col Otto Skorzeny, once described by British and American intelligence as “the most dangerous man in Europe”, was secretly recruited by Mossad after the Second World War, ...

Decorated S.S. killer Otto Skorzeny later joined the Israeli secret service in an espionage plot to intimidate German scientists working for Egypt - and is alleged to have killed Heinz Krug.

Otto Skorzeny, a former lieutenant colonel in the Waffen-SS, was one of his unit's most outstanding leaders. Hitler himself presented him with the country's top medal after Skorzeny rescued ...

Otto Skorzeny, seen in Madrid, Spain, in 1970, was the former SS colonel who made World War II headlines by kidnapping Benito Mussolini from under the noses of Italian authorities. | File photo ...

Otto Skorzeny bore distinctive scars which came from sword fighting (Popperfoto/Getty Images) By. Stuart Smith; 14:51, 9 Oct 2018 Updated 15:21, 9 Oct 2018; ...

Otto Skorzeny (1908-1975) was one of the first members of the Austrian Nazi party in 1935 and a leading member of the Vienna Gymnastic Club, a Nazi front organisation which played a prominent role in ...