An escape may be the secret of a man alone. When it involves the fate of a head of State, the assistance of a troupe of expert is often required. The sudden lightning made in 1943 by the SS’s Otto Skorzeny, freeing Mussolini from his confinement alpine, is that one of the achievements that the nazi regime inspired this fighter, of which the post-war period was to prove more surprising.
Otto Skorzeny was born in 1908 in a middle-class viennese. Engineer, polyglot, brawler, he keeps his duels with the sword several scars him streaking the face. Anti-communist hard, adhering…
