- Born
- Died
- Birth nameOtto Johann Anton Skorzeny
- Height6′ 4″ (1.93 m)
- Otto Johann Anton Skorzeny was an Austrian-born German SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel) in the Waffen-SS during World War II. During the war, he was involved in a number of operations, including the removal from power of Hungarian Regent Miklós Horthy and the Gran Sasso raid which rescued Benito Mussolini from captivity. Skorzeny led Operation Greif in which German soldiers infiltrated Allied lines by using their opponents' uniforms, equipment, language and customs. As a result, he was later, in 1947, charged at the Dachau Military Tribunal with breaching the 1907 Hague Convention, but was acquitted after a former British SOE agent F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas testified that he and his operatives had been prepared to open fire while wearing German uniforms behind enemy lines.
- IMDb mini biography by: Bonitao
- SpousesIlse Lüthje(1954 - July 7, 1975) (his death)Emmi Linhart(1939 - ?) (divorced, 1 child)
- Children
- ParentsAnton SkorzenyFlora Seiber
- As a child he competed in sword-dueling. In one match he was cut across the face, the cut left a large, permanent scar.
- Commander in Germany's Waffen SS during WWII. Gained renown for his rescue of Mussolini from prison in Gran Sasso, Italy.
- In 1944, he was assigned as the leader of 2,000 English speaking German soldiers dressed as American GIs. The purpose of the mission was to create havoc for the Allies behind their lines in France.
- SS commander.
- He was spared from execution because it was confirmed that Allied soldiers had worn German uniforms behind the lines.
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