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THE MAN WHO KIDNAPPED .MUSSOLINI,KEY BRAIN OF A HUNDRED EXPLOITS • • •

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Etinday.--Scar-faced Otto Skarzeny, theman who kidnapped

1 Mussolini ; the brain Of ahundred exploits which

• won him the reputation ofthe most dangerous man

in Europe." has come to•life himagain.

today,I saw

. and talked

to , • I knew he had reached

Spain. Through Germ an, friends I traced him under

hie new name and challenged• him to.meet me.

Fantastic stories hare followed•, his . desire trail since he

vantshed after the war. It wasI =sorted that he was dead: Mal

he was working secretly withMarlin Borman& Hitler's deputy.

ifor a great Nazi revival: .hasmilitary and pollee %ere •tutnteink hint all over Europe.

•I In • secret filet

Whatwas the !Ruth'? IIme. p.51 S1imefs"r1

agreed V!

account of secret. war-time

I' ralssions and what had hap.prned since. I began to realise

.that. this was Indeed a mostextraordinary man.

The Mussolini kidnap was onlyone aethes among many as faras Skorstny is concerned. Parrem exploit he gave detailsthat can be checked In thecaptured secret German files.

Never before has Stamenrspoken ow. Seldom. indeed.

, has he been Twice

111 the olasti seven years. lee only aret news photographers surprisedI him. Two years ago. In Parts.• a picture of hint stalking down• the Chemed Elmo Provoked•street battles and a earthmen-

tam ends.• aary.n 1W pitInth. a eam,Iti-• man • oiler -'211m,22 a renaucant

with Dr. . Schacht. Hiller's• economic many •• Speculation -eLed on mystery.

'There was only'cae way to endI it. I told our intermediaries.

Half-hour waitSkonenv Died atbold render-

roll'. We would meet at 2.30.the smart :luncheon hour inMadrid. and at umber's. whichIs famons for Its German foodand Demon clients.

I waited half an hour. Iwondered If he would come.Then a shadow darkened shealcove. Abuse attire stood over

• the table.1 -How are you?" The voiceI was built for lamer imam. "I

ant Amy. sth car broke down:on the rung." A bow. -.thus. Scar/env at Your service."• Ti.' mod dangerous man in

IEnnthei Even us a luaus,Earl Mountbatten's wartime

• opposite number. alto directed-i and led —Hulera commandos.

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has :11e air?' S man•eating tigeron paral... • in his early 40k.Skort.:th .. A". tin. frame has

• tom n.-..eg elite menacing pro.lune And I Maud that the

is: sudden at a club.

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The extras .Clocuirs favourite restaura-

teur In Berlin burned forwardva pay homage. Marcher brouantlittle extras, hearts of artichoke,lobstera cooked in cresm, forthe Herr Colonel.

" You are known." I said. Reginned. A it-ragging from his left, ear metI the corner of his mouth and

drove across his- chin. A manwho needs no passport.

We talked. Skorzeny showeddelicacy. It was unbecoming, hefelt. for a defeated soldier so

, thrust himself Into the Iltne-.i light. Especially if one was. letIt us ray, a shade conspicuous..1 Because all his possethths

were "liberated" he the Allies.:i he had some memotrs published• on the camttnent. That brought

more trouble.ooratitilsole. Threseoe en,reasons,

rum stillkeeping out of Plan-

" Believe me." he said. • forsome years it has not. beenleaserst to be known

I lussolln ra rescuer. The

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• Russians were as keen to gmme talents that they lithe triedto kldnaa me.

Not ashamed"Here In Snaky I feel at law

that Can —ea YOU say—drop themask. The worst bittern= ofwar is past. There is no reasonfor secrecy. I ant not ashamedof what we did and bow we didit."

Tonight I called at an elegantlittle white villa. A new Germancar mood outside the' doorSkorteny

We sat In easy-chairs. Theinures on the Walla were ototter scenesSkorreny looked at Ms Watch.

" Mustollni time.' he said. *lerook it off. A fine gold wile.watch and on the back theNapoleenie Initial " " with thedate of the famous raid. tiei'llinedniust try to lirebusiness down. Here In Spain Iam wonting IS hours a der.trying to build up eari00.1engineering enterprises. I antwetting for the future. but Idon't want to talk about thatYrs

"As to the past, history neverturns bark and for my partdon't want It to."

Head for Germany jWar Secret a re Mr. Ann

. Head will Vi ck Bri,isb troops inGermany after Easter.

THE. =TOUGHEST MAN ALIVErimmed for the first time the fightingPlli•PMJA h

• Sitters. Soldier. Withoutit• --Textbook. ote eio- man.

'Bitcntzl5Inr. Do 14. "146... 1 t5Vrelttle hiaftoor4'370:=2 ellesda721eyfieMseevory Is told .. ••by CHARLES FOLEY

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THE TOUGHEST MAN ALIVE... Fourth DayContinuing The Exploit, and Pailosophy of OTTO SKORZENY,the mars Hitler chose to carry out his most spectacular exploits.Skorzeny, hunted for many months, Ls now in Spain, and has toldhis story in inteittiCtV1 With Express Forsizn Editor Charles Foley.

airplane in still less commis.linealcircumstances.

Ordersar Degas. 51 mn. to Bitters Bent

headquarters. lb a group ofus — Ribbentrop.Keitel sod Jodi were 'there—Hitler said:-

• *Regent Heresy is secretlynegotiatIng whir Stalin. Ile hasoffered unconditional surrender.If the Bungee= salient -lama a m lion German

• soldiers. or even a million and aheir. will be lett." •

He• turned then tO Me. 'Yen.Skotzerty. 'will prepare to seizethe regent's Male at Buda:mt.I win give you the most extra-ordinary, wettest Parent"

On a' sheet of State paperwitli,the German cape and ironmom in gilt. I read thee I hadbeen charged by the !Mehra

to execute" personal and confi-dential ardent of. the highestImportance. All sled

colvevtirrnpossrbirchrtp the beitrig

Germany and make aSeparate , peace withStalin.

Today' Admiralnorth, laby we of a neighbour ofMine—be has a villa over thePortuguese border at Estoril..• The last time I saw Maths, Ipad the honour of escorting himto Germany under a guardpro-vided by the Puehrer. muse

thatat his enforced departurefolio ed rapidly alter that ofhis son ttlelsolat who left br .

The Obstacle, In the • embas" vetegO-ee the bill. thong

come and3tOry I ant going tO tell, remove This being agreed. It waswag A d ni i r a I HOrthy, Lime for the great gamble.Regent of •

German troopa almtli umaPoe ma

late. first we demanded eist. mines and barricades on the

by the removal of a it I a d to the cootie should be removed soroad up to the Vienna Gate of

single obstacle: .. that German diplomats. whose

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HERE arc timeswhen a millionmen can be saved

talks. Here was the Weak spot "Do rAl VIM to fight MAN'SI aware look for. your eneinim the Russians or

against us-vyour allies 7 "- Ambush . "min* PArtbrs 44=" .• were emp re. "Slaving L to '

, . • golin main Budapest had , Bed ,for ' *fuse • to theTEE peke talksr. Were-, betray us to . the Russians. be

Il.mr. Stalin had GennanAnbassy.t• ••• .sent In a group-of illtelsts as • A new-liudgartitn Governmentintermediaries: -. They , were . was fended at once to carry onto meet the foliowincsunday in the war. - A m11110n Gents=• building on the Danube at lived to fight scan. And Eitel-

'ile a.th. A chance to 'bag the PM fought •hc Oh egifile tle to timelot,• I drove up to the building in . w"rheen,quietei the action the

were . ..

time to see two German mike. slighter•the sting. TO DiPtUnt amen walk up • -..r • sr• ',. fortress by.

door. •Instantly Lh eabootlate

•started. • .HUngarlan•

troops were

shelter. Getman hand grenade;brought down the doorway and The guestbottled them inside.

Down came the German police EXT day 1 wasafrom Nicholas Horthrk room. seated tOrranf to r••,.....t

NcarrYing , au.. raceirs son . and ' - the'lr1e8fiti..ltf.bid.....,,,a.,:.sitreentgungT I tvtooliona tway. AToll it:oelrde inelyireet2L recto beellthua 'irsil,resdesitt

them into carnets. tourney ur the station.Thus, rendered both harmless In Admiral aorthrs martin,and speechless. they were driven nl train — for the

to the ah emhere and shipped to Emperor Pram Joseph—I madem. yselt responsible for his sat myGermany.NOW for the castle. It was until be reached a castle inalready, In a state er dose, with invade where ts p remained eery

all roads cut off. At 2 p.m secure indeed

Admind Her'ereeeee"erni • Nun f"Its WORLD COPYRIGHTes. "n:, ha s

nty car. A doubleambush. We had a joint funeral withMy driver was hit One at the much offers' pomp to erase theGerman Policemen rolled down last traces Of bittemess, and •the steps to my hat. I fired that night we b a agile Ledback as best I could and together, German efacers andwhistled for a Berman eoullnAY Hungarians. to celebrate thewe had bidden round the COMM% dellyaittsce of our whim you

As they came up at the May be sure we had the beetdouble the Hungarians Meted wines stem the Whole •••into the house next door nu .

ano er street scene we rolled cecomPanted him on l es last

everywhere —Out house newt.door was fullof then. Theywere in the* gardens opposite.They were mini from a truck

and must comply with all his tiler aufillose . we could heashes. Signed. Adolf Ilium" rolling t iP In Parade order_With this warrant I could out Peralseloo from the ceetlit7hare *turned °annum upside So much for. the sentales...i

down- puIn fact I decided not to "ether lone tO lier-thOlneq'use it. . • run pasta—we . lite em

I hoped to use more delicate 00neltalm°17*Tho castle square loomed up.,the finger at a Vital. onionwUl tinned to the sky. a "A ofmonstrous of cannon cannm r Avudied ma giant Panther •

nuans. , believe a Much with Three big tanks laVrAt juns.

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our conlfittfilitlent . in the rushed ihrou the breach;soutb.lf Bahian started °Pear. bounded up castle stain.Getman troops and Police would Anofficer e me with .be outnumbered Are to one RY-...pistaLr I did•

1 ot givelthe. Mae..

Hungarians. 'to think. "Take • trie.'" I cried, .As for the Hungarian armies " to your commanient at_ once.- .

%Mc= lithrT =rule! 7_1:lead:ro11The whole front Imola collapse... ""ri gam to the cam-

Forthe moment We were mandant:allies. we must remain so or. It_ • :casUe Is already inall would be lost. ouriberida.liyou Mgt surrender.' .

I arrived in BtulapestZMI-%ezz*1 ordered he cease-fire. - -gate of a civilian. Dr. Wolff. re- I took uP1 residence myself asnod out what was haPpening, the new ofiernandant. In the

PAY/ in the thirties. addreav7ed the 'Nowlin:

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learned tut Horthy was real ball *here the lenssOn Nicholas. nog at were crowned. I •

‘... I did not tryto kill Eisenhower'

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were MR most natural of Sun;dav morning Aunts.

)1y orders CEVery man to reffupright in his Mick: safetycatcher on all wino= no.shooting.

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al the wey; Behind me, a group,Of tanks and • battalion or,paratroops. we' best and, :4 stew:Ilea in Germany, • • B.

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would havecast thousandsof- casualties.

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OUR .minutes is the time it took me to crashthrough the jailers and reach Mussolini.

-The odds against us were fantastic. That iswhy I knew we could not fail.'

The Winer the guard the safer they feel. The betterthe troops the More automatic their Mien& They aretrained to obey, to wait on a command. .Under ordersthey will light like copybook heroes. Without Ordersthey are 10St. . • d. .. •

worshipper. yet IAM no herAM adas I t that

Inners gaze al he shook handseenvorod a hypnotic conviction.

•..„„ I went out to Ronie.under thecommand of lily force GeneralStudent. Only three Other men

wereIn Italy we let Into our secnst.hod been splrild\

.stiras. by his . captors. The',-Solmll -was. a desperate. meal:-tienties, false trails laid by that,'Italians. At, last we. found be',was hnmured In the nevilfortress of Santa Maddalena.

I flew over the Lsiand tt.\reconnoitre. British righters\-•forced my phut* Into the sea.I Was rescued by an Italiancruiser.

Luckily they could not rumsire' errand. I had torn oil myuniform. A naked Mae offersfrw clues, in his Idftn I0•• •

white ambulance plane. For snot•It wss a narrow escape from thepadded tell.

Through • series of ruses wediscovered he had been trans-ferred to On Alpine hotel' 6400feet up the Ahrtual range inItaly. Every route was cut offby Itallats troops, •

In the hotel he was guardedby 200 creek mountain soldiers-with orders th fight tri the death

e flew over,th a Main plea.The hotel Wis a fortress on ajagged peak. In the freezingsky I hung from thie Waist outol the plane to take pictureswill/ my adjutant held Illy kat.

' .1":"..di II was his turn to try.We flew home to land and

found our headquarters bombedta bits. Fighting had alsobegun between °ennui andItalian troops round Rome.

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Leo this isf hOW it•happened Fourminutes of my lifethat boosted me

I was alive. I tasseled out ofthe wreckage with several menbehind me. First thing I sawwas a corner of the hotel withan Ilellan sentry.

Nowthe climax. The soldierwas stupefied when we crashedout of the sky. I knew what hewanted—his soul cried out fororders, or at least for fire toreturn. We did not fire.

With my men panting behindme I ran past him to an opendoor. Another thither was sittingat a radth transmitting set.kicked the chair from underhint I Swilialled the radio withMY VP-

We raced round anothercorner of the hotel. There, at afirst.fioor window. .a familiarshaven bead. Mussolini I Wedashed for the main entrance

Twe macblne.guns, We knock- edthem over.

selatitell of ciM.AWOL DS the case •

count on three Rill

There'll,34.1,iittook erell beOne thing more I have learned. If the surprise is big

enough you canIth Wye. .aitheys

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llwai3efowstilthe4dicoulociMils° troops. Beforebebegin° to think

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athrough the rushedthe and the

stalormyra three at a time. Ia. aturneddown • gallery. threw pdoor at random.

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Mussoliniwith two Italian

In a moment I was Joined bya friend. He thrust the efAcetsout' 'of the Men, banged thedoor. Mussolini was as ourhands.

fly The. bpst was imathednow she more Odes had

to pieies. still no shot had beenfired. The marten- commandercame Interne Mom.. I gave hint6°"1121":Inglittully.t4dsurrenhe filled% gobletwith red-wine 'sad handed-it-to*m —lb the victor." he *ka.I :Crank it. I .was thirsty.

A ahem waved. from '-'the.window. My men swarmed In.Wenuhadeinnoplegedarertacre=st

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TODAX we know thatCanans did not wantGermany to ;win the

war, lie gave Hitler falseInformation. U sea struck at thewrung objective it would be fetalfor Mtinolinrs chances. It wouldalso justify Italy hi somer•saul iota the Allied camp.

So th Student I flew to theheadquartere. Then.

opinions frankly.se always. I expressed

Hitler sledded .Caninis waswrong. Re approved my Plansfor an attaok en Santa

Moodie! When all. wail ready ter theemelt -we sere staggered by •t

wes' order. Admiral Canadaahief of German 'Intelligence.

claimed that Mussolini was noton Santa Maddalena. but onanother island near Elba. whYdrwe were to attack at once with-

entmst you With thIS mission. when be

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d.whaimme sbe dangers you mutt t• Bete, the • &a eeamBe onsucceed. The effect on -the Santa Maddalena Tinted thecourse. of the war will -- Island diseased as a Salter.tnealculable." My hair stood on end when I

found that Mussolini bad beenFalse trails taken off that mantles in aI

began When I was-r igida/stir fetched by ,d,e1, Maddalena by land. sea.

Plane to the Pnehrees air. Then he added_thls un-rattetor'. Ilth was the first . ccriforttrereirigirk-em; have

He: told me kilis.4101 had beenme X sale Wrier. I te repudiate amt. bushl myoverthrown and arrested bY • YOU eeteedl r etdeltfligatUeRatlennt.1 new Italian Oovem• ainsustztalea.yoursement. no said have ae doubt he meant

11417 re on the "Itre or °in"- ; I saw Rudolf Hess after the warins over to the nine! ' Mineelen :goustea rescued before ha In Nuremberg. Be flew to Britainishanded to Eisenhower. 1 .- and he was dhowned as a mad-

on Eitlers orders to seek peace.

but we Mined it off.That • extra minute

extra hilnuti.

woit • year of freedomfob Mussolini. Wesnatched him fromthe air stist am he wasabout to be handed tothe Allies. He wasgrate/al to me •I was loaded withpresents and a photo-frtra inscribed "In

friendship forever—mussel:DV

But the man%vitality was tone. Isaw hem aght for thelast Ulna just before

ISIS end came in thecaralval a Mart

He talked for hours about theestastrzthe facing Europe firs.die age. peoples. A ear

The inet of that eitrOratelliomade me famous .eventigtrt. Ians never allowed to forget It.

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OR me, It was oneclitellen among many.For Germany. the

propaganda value vu berend

• victor: fanfares.Hitler taunted it i great battle

won. He ordered • • brother• cancer in Vienna to. hand me

hts own Knight's Cross on thatT . should be the first soldier tobe decorated on the Yer7 ea/ at

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ITS a knife I Mashedthe fabric betweenmy feet to see

where we Wires itrolnit. Toe GranSate' mute below. The gliderswere released.

Another shock : the Heldbehind the hotel vu as steep as

s417Junili; and it was strewnwith :innate* like bathtubs.

General Student had for-'bidden us to crash-land. Mustwe. then, abandon the attackand sail down to the valleyOrders. In my philasophr, mustat prover times be disobeyed.

I shouted to -the pilot :"Crash - land.. We hit theground. We tumbled over therooks

and •

the ground. Even- /Tar uhanY:like this must have • Koperrunway." •

Take -off"-off1:'

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en my stone d the

prospect of disaster, it would bebetter that we should all die.together than that I shouldsurvive alone to give Hitler thenews that in rescuing MUSS011nlwe had killed hhn.

We squeezed in thgether.With soldiers hanging to the.wings. the engine was marled.the soldiers let Co. ithekingheltesakeiter as it hounded overthe atones. the Storeh gainedspeed. Ahead was a ertWarte.

We lifted just enough to takethe Jump, hit the ground again.sec-sawed over the edge of thefield and down.

I walled for the clash. But°Mach evened out a fewhundred feet over the valleyand flew through a gap in the_mountains towards Rome. Ourlanding gear was damaged lb

two-Pointptigai ffiandeggrl.achvkmadwave a

there. •Long fa''

SMI. laugh tothink of the lonefaces at the Ptlehrers

'' -The staff Were 'horrified: ' if

Mussolini could be kidnappedone day. then Hitler might becarried off the next.

For bows security chiefsenlied me on the operation. We Idcove round the headquarterslooking for week spots and con-triving new defences.

But. take It from me. therewill never be a certain safe.cuard for future tUehn•ra

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Orlltpictures showeda rough field behindthe hotel. The only

host was to land gliders on RAii4ao-striket 3al:so....atrl‘itsklygna. sordisudtenlyould.joie* ne Unto to resist, no nineto carol off Abele prisoner:sbOve ali. notkne -to kill hims liss••••

Our experts —said Immo-able." Thu putfresh hurt in=thentnierkbeecam ueouthi de a==.

The experts. =said we could =ntoPetie 9uthta ndogmen in such a =sp ace: never =hiana gdedd inlide m

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thin mountal =air: we weal =be lucky If ?0 =RehmerIfdlivlettlanita--no•eeehedrf tfVeh sour _pV II /Axed zero houror 2 p.ot.‘..1Kread of waiting for

next daylirbewn. That meantlanding th full daylight. againstincalculable warm air currents.

Another bombing mid camejust before we left, and two of

II glidela hit craters in. That left ten. lialf-

at. 12.00the twoeta din disap-ey were here led

us down and =Wed attack.

. Then, I saw a 'German onset-watkal Plane—aIns 0 V er theStarch — hover-hotel I got thetroche to clear a

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THE TOUGHEST MAN ALIVE!.This title, which is in itself a challenge. brings you dayby day the one-war-ahead philosophy of the fabulousex-5.S, man 07TO SKORZENY. as told to Express Foreign

• Editor CHARLES FOLEY. .

). - That bomb plot bade Hitler' a

physical. wreck t took over

control myself for, the 36 _hours

till. Himmler came fo relieve me.'

Listen, gentlemen,No damage canmatch the terribledisease of doubt

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OR 36 hours after Ihe famous July 20 plot on flitler's lifei found myself in ' supreme command of all the Germanarmies of the interior and in The satellite countries of the

Reich. i WAS , a lieutcnant-colonel. 1 was 33. And I had inthose two days a terrifying glimpse of how the most efficientwar machine in the world can be completely seized-up by asingle jolt. .. .

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Take the DVS as it MOOd.Our troops were fightingdesperately on all fronts.The Allies had brokenthrough In NOrMandy.the EAR 30 German divisiOnahad suddenly capitulated.

Thirty divisions. More thanthe total effective loran MinxRussia in Hurons today.

We soldiers struggled on. Weknew of nothing else to do. Butfor a handful of high staff*Mara around Hiller there wasPal alteinatiVe. They conspiredto kill hint with a suitcasebomb.

The conspiracy

THZ plot was rimmed

for that. Yet the fact—trust start bunglers

that Hitler was wounded shoWshow easily a few men trainedto action Instead of to palaver-ing ntudatAtave aucceeded.

And the inereiratenept unwedsuch chaos that It may be takenas a model for the -confusionagents" of a World War III.

The first I heard of the con-spiracy was when env troop.train out of Berlin halted at astation. An *Meer ran down theplatform. lie was bawling mename.

Highest, ordetz." he earned-"You are wonted at once inBenin. An attack hal been madeon the Fuchrerk Me I" •

Back in Berlin the chair-bonie warriors were threat:1g •

Feeeertaly reading while hiewire worked at her embroidery.He had not heard the new,-

Geerang telephonedfrom the Fuchrerk H.Q.: "Forhearenliaake avoid any Incidentthat might' plunge us Intocivil war."

He at least understeod theconsequences of panic.

It seemed Mal the WarMinistry was at the centre ofthe 'Pled.. I raced to the build.nig; Remer—the general whoIs new said to fancy himself asanother Gennan fuehrer—hadalready surrounded the WarMinistry with his Imp/.e s ',I. arrived at. midnight.

:aerie's! Promia. command/4,111--0MM, got Into rue ear. 0 I amgoing home now.' he *aid. Wesaw him no more.

Inside the War Ministry Ifound General Beck hod juste011indtted =kid!. Three staffofficers had been shot by firingsquad. Nobody knew what todo next.

Think how such • VACUUMcould be filled be a hostilePreece that knew Its business.

In the enmity camp will be atmmajor war a of the future.

That is striking. at the brain.No germ warfare can comparewith the terrible disease of

But make sure the arteriesalso must be cut. Next time.deadly forms of surprise willparalyse great eelites.a:MUMrtrb= centres from the air.strangle the pipelines of supplyby methods the enemy will notsuspect, until he is gasping forhis life.

ImprovisationA

projects depend onLL those wonderful

•sur cleating space for

men with the vision to lookbeyond massarmies and massbombardments toa new conceptionof war wherelniUative is all.

Some of myfinest schemeswe re stifled bygenerals and poli-ticians living Inthe Past. Haifa-

mleft

yse f unUl •°safe" general could beappointed. So for 36 hours Iwas free to move reserve mulesand equipment all over HitiersEurope. The fighting frontshad to be kept going.

Al Ian I was relieved—by 5.8.Relehtfuehrer Hininfier himself.

The plot made Hitler a phesi-cal an moral wreck. Fromthen on he trusted nobody.Next time I saw him he hadaged terrible : he had to clutchhis left hand With his- light toatop it trembling.

Hysterically he berated hisfield-marshal.' before the em Ire

, general staff.I • The destrueden of confidence

Site AbOke

whewhetherFeetain was working forGermany or against her.

There was the commando raidon the Iraq pumping stations—six captured Plying Fortresseswe were to use for transportwere destroyed In a. Britishbomber raid. No more couldhefound.

If ever I had nightmares /should prefer not to recall ourlast and most spectacular effort.I do so now because it Is apointer te the future.

Somewhere . in Russia, in theVast forests north of Minsk.2.000 Oennen troops were cut offInernreds of miles behind OreSoviet lines. If by some meansthey could be got mu. It wouldmow) in our reeling armies inthe Ease that no fight is ever

hopeless.Again. 20 men

attempted theImpossible. Weformed (Sur=ups, each oftwo Germansoldiers and threeBaltic volunteerswho spoke Russian.

AU were dis-ruined in Soviet

for ever in the Russian void.Group D mined Seherhorn.-but three rents later theyrejoined us with vital fulcrum-

Meanwhile we dropped doctorsand supplies of all kinds to ourlost army. Scherhorn began tobuild a landing strip fromwhich we could take off 20 ata time.

Then the Russians launchedheavy attacks on them. Achants of plan. We toldScherhorn to Ito northward 160miles to a lake area where wemight use ice for runways.

The lost army

OUR. 2.000 hail beencut off In June IP44.It was November

when the northward' marchbegan. All the way we droppedwarm clothes and more equip-ment to .beat off the constant.Soviet attacks.

Schensornk progress wasagonisingly slow—ten, seven, evemiles a day..

Now It was February" ma. 3ythen I was myself trying to holdthe 1101111U2 onslaught in com-mand of a dIvision., •

Petrol stipples for She =MayMedi ran down. Every night

listened helpless to Scherhom'sappeals -Help us. Do notforget UM !*

The last army reached thefrozen lakes. We could notfetch them. We wield not helpthem. Now they were dying ofhunger.

We heard the last dim callfrom Scherhorn on May I. Hedid not . know that Germanyhad surrendered two days.before. I am glad to recall that.before It was tco s laW, wedropped him the Knight'sCross.

History win record thistragedy as a triumph. Thesemen !Ought and survived for awhole year. They lasted outthe war.

What will the future holdwhen full divisions will besustained and lavishly suppliedby sir in areas far behind theUde of betWe f

WORLD COPYRIGHT

TOMORROWHow to capture

a fortresswithout atext-book

atPretty ao-ano—fitndt en I was

commander

Par: In SS headquartersthey distributed pistols to allhands. Six frightened clerks t I on ignomnes. uniforms — f a Is etried to stop me at the door, t compromise • a re _papers. hair clippedthrew them into theo:ellars and fataL I had to fight all three, to the skull. Russiana rations inkicked them up alter depriving ,Given time to their.plan. absolutely packs.thens--muell to [heir relief—of nothing is impossible. With us Group A dropped 330 milestheir dangerous soya.. . It was always Improvisation ...• inside enemy territory to find

• Hone of the staff officers knew that is why we sometimes failed:, the lost army, which was led ID•.what was happening or who had . -There was Operation Vichy. • Colonel Scherhom. They

risen against whom. But all .1 . went secretly to Marshal 'radioed -Bad landing. We aregesticulated wildly with revolvers .../Itaink capital. In a week or under lire." We did not bearwhen I questioned them. They,...-itun I had laid an invisible from them again.were sending armoured units "noose around the city. . Group • B went over!' yourout against Military Intelligence I was ready to kidnap and nithis or- silence. Then thoH.Q. transport the entire French can-sign with the secret signal'

Heaven knows what would Govenureent to Paris. The which iold us they were talkinghave . happened If I had not order did not come, freely and not at the point orstopped this. • . It seems laughable now. but Soviet re/regrets. Glorious stews.all the Oerrnan Intelligence They had 'reached Scherhorn.

Centre of plot aerViala JUMP'S MUM not decide One when Group C—to nunsh1 wziiT round look- 1---tag for elr General &Moral wreck .

DAUM 21711Ean WZDVIESLIAT APRIL le 19311

Of our airbornetuden

troops. IS

tracked him to 'his OM. A1 - THERE was nothing

but to take over .the bratn

canto ready and ns- way ofgetting them into the ships.

I. sketched out a ramp. Ifound a Dutch factor)* to buildIt. The workers were sulky.Instead of pulling a revolver Igave them schnapps and choco-late. We worked all night.Next morning I . d.-ove the firstNg tank aboard up my ramp.

British Commando raids. fromDieppe on. It took me a fort-nifhlimtsaruethil rowiletil deligniht as Ifa now 'world had opened re es.

, .

EXCLUSIVE To THE DAILY EXPRESS: The philosophy of Skerzeny—the soldier-without-a-textbook—

THE TOUGHEST MAP1

.D/ULT EXPittme Mummt • Atum 1. HISS .

Ado thinks one war ahead

b. an4 a free handnd ittobody will beisfelif war comes

. .— PARTICULAFtLY IF MY

% 2,000 HAVE NERVES TOGive- me 1,9 000 nteisi- MATCH 'THE V ./ GIRL'' tHERE .ARE. challengers, of course, to his title—The Toughest Man N.

.. Alive. .. . Ever since the Daily Express announced that Hitler's- almost legendary aide, OTTO • SKORZENY (pronounced Skord-

iogid) was to tell his story In relation to the times we live in therehave been those ready to put forward other claimants to the title.

" I ,COULD mention So-and-So in a British Commando,",they say. .• Sergeant This and Major That and-Brigadier The Other,all have .

. their proposers and supporters. And all 'witluood reason.. BUT.IUDGE fiw'yoursele Read the Modern Day Adventure Story of

Scarface,5korzeny—told in a series of interviews with Express.Fcreign 'Editor Charles Foley—before you decide. •.NEVER learned to click my heels. - f was

•

Inever taken in by the conventions they callthe military art. But I have made a deep

study of the soldier's mind. It is frequentlytoo aensilo go through. It is never too broad •-to be outflanked. 7'. Listen, the next war Is going to be so different fromanything the generals 'imagine that many of them willnot know where they are Until they find the enemy Isthind their

'lines. '

And a . lot of them, if I guess right, will wake on thewrong able.of the front.

They will be kidnapped.Give me 1.000 men—you canlose as many In an hourstorming some useless hill—with s free hand in wartime.and nobody will be sacWhat 121 the less of .I.000 mencompared with the captureof a, coMmandes- In - chief -with half adozen of his staff

—andcould use the

mind. Soldiers are lost withoutorders and, above all, with nofire to return.

People I run Into today takeme for the thug Incarnate. bredto violence end bloodshed. Intruth I practised the utmosteconomy in killing. I neverOrel first. That Is the secret.

In Peacetime I was happy as

THAT Is not all. One an engineer. I did not touchOlin or—as / will a gun until the war.. Today IshortlY show — one am trying to catch up on life

• ..3rotrInn who ts willing to die is where I left IL oil. But It is. 'capabletelysdolisfrritore:damagerd,easier.m•ein a reputation thanto a nerve centre than a 1.000. to live it down.bomber raid, in which severalhundredties airmen may be First jobcasual._

• '. virf unifm g 'the ft,' Ettitensintdr %land, • ,Aleples.willo

indor amon

battalion' In • I . -xAS a mutheir

t;

TOMORROW:How I 'Kidnapped' Mussolini

technique again.

So you see that it was notbravado that gave me a headstart in the war . business. Ifought then in Russia and InYugoslavia. I became an expertin Improvising for theunexpcy.ted.

It was then that I was calledto the headquartets of thyWaffen S.S., Hitler's Sao guard.awl offered. file command at ell

and mem GermanCnitnandos: we adopted, the.

• mesa). word from the British. Thal N.panic and confusion. planning' ihe- in-raa err--of-- • not all we mak from you. I was

CONFUSION — that is the England. Thor had 30-ton given a vast mass of reports on• —

• •

kidnapping. I have proved thenosentiBtles and I know thelemon has been isten to hearttw among others. the Russians.Nexttime no king or Presidentwiu MSC/ securely, wherever heis put,

Confusion!

and all their records? ...rush= harvest to sow, theI haw had a practice it reap e military

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