Skorzeny and the Mossad

[o.r.k.]

Even quality press newspapers in Germany report that Otto Skorzeny enlisted as a hitman for the Mossad after WW2. He allegedly killed Heinz Krug, a German rocket scientist who helped the Egyptians at their rocket programme aimed against Israel in the 60s. Skorzeny asked to be taken off the Wisenthal Nazi wanted list, but Wiesenthal rejected to that. Heinz Krug and Skorzeny knew each and Skorzeny used the former comradeship to kill him. What a weird story...but sometimes real life seems to overtake fiction....or just all fake????

[Tom B]

IMO just a huge bunch of BS !!!

[Tom M]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...elligence.html

It doesn't ring true with me either. Why, after all he had done in the service of TR to the bitter end, would he then betray his former colleagues to save his own skin?

But then there's the mystery of the open secret of his whereabouts when he was alive; Ireland for example. Why wasn't he assainated?

[ODW]

Now it turned out it was fake.
He didn´t shoot Krug and dissolved him in Acid.

Unfortunately it´s only in german:
http://www.spiegel.de/einestages/mos...a-1188698.html

There is also today (Montag, 22. Januar 2018) television reportage. It´s
broadcast on ARD at 23.30 o´clock.
"Der Mossad, die Nazis und die Raketen - Showdown am Nil"

[Harry]

a story on the Irish connection:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-30571335

[IrishRebel]

a story on the Irish connection:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-30571335

Thanks for the link, very interesting.

Cheers

[Dom]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...elligence.html

It doesn't ring true with me either. Why, after all he had done in the service of TR to the bitter end, would he then betray his former colleagues to save his own skin?

But then there's the mystery of the open secret of his whereabouts when he was alive; Ireland for example. Why wasn't he assainated?

I don't think he was such a big target in comparison to those deeply involved in the holocaust. In fact his memoirs were a bit of a hit and his major missions were admired in the UK and US. The fact he was an unrepentant Nazi seemed to have passed some of his fans by. He was lucky I think to be thought of as a lovable rogue. In any case strangely enough, people were less anti Nazi in the immediate aftermath of the war than they are now. Partly they were sick of the war, partly all the hateful details of the holocaust were not as well understood and there are other reasons as well but perhaps best not discussed here.
Dom

[Kyle Harrington]

Gran Sasso

Ask any Fallschirmjager who participated on the Gran Sasso mission "Otto" was a chancer !! I would look out the window if he said it was daylight. This story seems highly improbable.

[eubank]

...this tall tale keeps popping up every now and again....people will strain to believe what they want to believe.

[o.r.k.]

There is a new Mossad book on the market that focusses on the assasinations. Also the case of Heinz Krug, the German businessman who organized the rocket deal with Egypt. This was the main case to be connected with Skorzeny. The book explains in detail how Krug was abducted and taken to Israel. The commando didn´t include Skorzeny and the story is very detailled. So there is a piece of proof that Skorzeny was no Mossad assassin- I think the story was too cool to be left out by the yellow press and someone started it and it went viral. A hoax to sell more newspapers in these hard times.