Skorzeny in Romania?

[cainele_franctiror]

Was really Skorzeny in Romania ?

[C-2]

Maybee on vacantion..
He had some Romanian recrutes,like the father of Greceanu's wife.

[cainele_franctiror]

It seems that he was in Romania in the second half of august 1944 . I read few years ago his memories but I don*t remember well

[Vlad]

Clarify for us:
Who was Skorzeny ?

[cainele_franctiror]

Otto Skorzeny was a very well known SS commander. He was send to rescue Mussolini in 1943 and then he became ,, the most dangerous man in Europe after Adolf Hitler"

[Victor]

Vlad, see here:
http://www.fact-index.com/o/ot/otto_skorzeny.html

[C-2]

He was stupid enought to send his best men ,dressed in American uniforms,speaking lauzy Eanglish,to infiltrate in the US army during the battle of the Arddenes.Only few of them were not shoot.
After the war he was Eva's Peron body guard.
Since you live in S.America ,you know better the us who was E.Peron

[cainele_franctiror]

His most stupid action was to send his man on the eastern front to rescue an unit who was fighting behind the russians lines / in fact it was an soviet trap :blbl:

[dragos]

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He was stupid enought to send his best men ,dressed in American uniforms,speaking lauzy Eanglish,to infiltrate in the US army during the battle of the Arddenes.Only few of them were not shoot. After the war he was Eva's Peron body guard. Since you live in S.America ,you know better the us who was E.Peron

I think this action was not so stupid. In fact it was unique in the history of special operations. AFAIK, the "greif" teams had the role to disrupt the traffic, to play the role of traffic control in order to divert the enemy forces.

[C-2]

OS died peacefuly in his bed anyway. :?

[dragos]

I have heard of another episode, I don't know if related to Skorzeny, of a paratroops team dropped near Stalingrad, that failed because they operated in the featureless landscape of the Russian frozen steppe. They simply got lost.

[cainele_franctiror]

I am not talking about AFAIk I talk about sending his man to rescue a 2000 soldiers units which doesn*t existed in fact. It was a soviet scenario

[Carol I]

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I think this action was not so stupid. In fact it was unique in the history of special operations. AFAIK, the \"greif\" teams had the role to disrupt the traffic, to play the role of traffic control in order to divert the enemy forces.

In some way the operation was even more successful than originally planned. Indeed the members of the German commandos created confusion through changing some road signs, redirecting some traffic, but this was not their greatest achievement. The most important effect was that that they induced suspicion in the ranks of the Allied who for a period of time did not trust anyone and interrogated whoever they met trying to expose the Germans. Some units did not trust the indications of their own military police suspecting they were Germans. Some British troops were arrested because 'they did not speak proper English' (from the point of view of the Americans). Even an American General came under suspicion and was briefly arrested.

What I found amazing was that eventually the commandos were not betrayed by language problems, but by some minor details like the number of people travelling in a jeep, the use of incorrect designations for various things ("petrol" instead of "gasoline", "company" instead of "troop" etc.).

I have found on the net a brief story about the man and the Greif operation: The Most Dangerous Man in Europe

[Vlad]

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He was stupid enought to send his best men ,dressed in American uniforms,speaking lauzy Eanglish,to infiltrate in the US army during the battle of the Arddenes.Only few of them were not shoot.   After the war he was Eva's Peron body guard.   Since you live in S.America ,you know better the us who was E.Peron

Some time ago i saw a film in wich a paratroper german oficer and his platoon landed in south of england using polish uniform before the D day. I´m not shure if was a true story.

[C-2]

"The Eagle has landed" with Mickel Kaine,Donald Sunderland and others..
Not thrue...