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and thereby its defection from the Axis to the Allies on 8 September, the German army launched Operation Achse and quickly occupied strategic points in northern and central Italy within days, effectively disarming hundreds of thousands of Italian soldiers who had nominally just switched sides. The
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to execute the liberation. On September 7, German signals intelligence intercepted a coded Italian report which indicated that Mussolini was imprisoned somewhere in the Abruzzi mountains. Next, the Germans employed a ruse to confirm the exact location in which a German doctor pretended to try to
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would probably try to seize control of Italy as soon as the government switched sides to the Allies. Therefore, the Italian government wanted the Allied troops to have landed on the mainland before the armistice took effect and was announced publicly – which happened on 8 September – so that the
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Meanwhile, the valley station of the funicular railway leading to the Campo Imperatore was captured at 14:00 in a ground attack by two paratrooper companies, led by Major Harald Mors, the commander-in-chief of the whole raid, which cut all telephone lines. This ground attack caused the only two
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had been forced to fly with Skorzeny on the raid, as a hostage; making himself known to the soldiers who guarded the hotel, Soleti ordered them not to shoot. Skorzeny attacked the radio operator and his equipment and stormed into the hotel, followed by his SS troopers and the paratroopers. Ten
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minutes after the beginning of the raid, Mussolini left the hotel, accompanied by the German soldiers. At 14:45, Mors accessed the hotel via the funicular railway and introduced himself to Mussolini.
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plane that had arrived in the meantime. Although under the given circumstances the small plane was overloaded, Skorzeny insisted on accompanying Mussolini, which endangered the mission's success.
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was hidden in a safe place and that the Government of Badoglio was committed to handing him over to the Allies, a daring attack, completely beyond all foresight, prevented this from happening".
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Allies could move north quickly to help defend especially the capital city of Rome against the looming German invasion. Indeed, Mussolini's fall prompted German military commanders to develop
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Georg Freiherr von Berlepsch, entered the first glider while Skorzeny and his SS troopers sat in the fourth and the fifth gliders. To gain height before crossing the close by
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deaths of the operation, Italian forestry guard Pasqualino Vitocco, who was killed while attempting to warn the garrison of the approaching German troops, and
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Allied Italian military and political leaders including Marshal Badoglio and King Victor Emmanuel III fled to Allied-controlled territory in southern Italy.
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was derived. The D-shaped Hotel Campo Imperatore constructed to celebrate Mussolini's rule served as his prison for several weeks.
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Giovanni Natale, who was killed while preparing to open fire on the attackers. Two more carabinieri were slightly wounded by a
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Historian Ulrich Trumpener (2015) stated that 'exaggerated credit was later given to a small SS detachment under
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After the raid, Hitler put Mussolini in charge of a puppet state in German-occupied northern Italy, the
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late in the war, with German propaganda hailing the operation for months afterward. The landing at
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von Berlepsch, commanded by Major Mors and under orders from General Student, all of whom were
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from 12:00 on 28 July to 7 August. From 7-27 August, Mussolini was held in a private villa on
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attempted to flee to Switzerland, but both were captured by Italian communist partisans and
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were granted the majority of the credit for the operation. Skorzeny received a promotion to
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to help obtain information. Skorzeny used information gathered by agents to plan his raid.
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officers, but Skorzeny stewarded the Italian leader right in front of the cameras.
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and Skorzeny's special troopers overwhelmed Mussolini's captors, 200 well-equipped
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In late April 1945, in the wake of near total defeat, Mussolini and his mistress
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Viganò, Marino (2001), "Un'analisi accurata della presunta fuga in Svizzera",
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of the Germans in their fight against the Allies, the Kingdom of Italy, now a
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mountain range. A ski station was located next to the hotel, linked with a
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The Italian high command, led by Marshal Badoglio, was well aware that the
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Pasqualino Vitocco e Giovanni Natale, due militari cancellati dalla storia
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and the fame that led to his image as the "most dangerous man in Europe".
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Freeing Mussolini: Dismantling the Skorzeny Myth in the Gran Sasso Raid
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guards, without a single shot being fired. The Italian General 
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to track Mussolini and simultaneously ordered the paratroop General
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After an extremely dangerous but successful takeoff, they flew to
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used counterfeit notes with a face value of £100,000 forged under
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On the night between 24 and 25 July 1943, a few weeks after the
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and imprisoned Mussolini in an isolated house on the island of
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The operation granted a rare public relations opportunity to
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On 12 September 1943, Skorzeny and 16 SS troopers joined the
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After hearing of Mussolini's escape, British Prime Minister
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World War II operations and battles of the Italian Campaign
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Verrat auf deutsch. Wie das Dritte Reich Italien ruinierte.
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gliders, each carrying nine soldiers and a pilot, towed by
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and had Mussolini arrested. This is commonly known as the
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to rescue Mussolini in a high-risk glider mission. Ten
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the 'legitimate protagonists' of the Gran Sasso raid.
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Fabrizio Ciano, 3rd Count of Cortellazzo and Buccari
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