“Duce, the Führer has sent me to set you free!”

—  Otto Skorzeny

To Benito Mussolini, upon rescuing him from after his overthrow, as quoted in Hitler's Raid to Save Mussolini (2005) by Greg A. Annussek, p. 228.

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Austrian SS-Standartenführer (colonel) in the German Waffen… 1908–1975

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