Who has the story of Hitler's agent?

That small European country is Holland. Specifically, it is not a special agent, but the Brandenburg army, the first special force in modern times.

At 2 am on May 10, William Walter and eight other Brandenburg players disguised as three Dutch policemen escorted six disarmed German soldiers. They crossed the border into the Netherlands, which was still neutral at that time, and walked three miles to the town of Henknapp. There stands the goal they want to occupy: a railway bridge across the Maas River, which is the only way to the western Netherlands and has a very important strategic position. The Dutch foresaw that the Germans might attack, so they placed explosives on the bridge. A small group of people guarded the bridge and detonated the explosives as soon as they saw the German train coming. However, when they met a small group of people in Walter, they didn't get suspicious. Three Brandenburg players in military and police uniforms went straight to the guard room on the east bank of the river and quickly subdued the sentry. At the same time, their "prisoners" rushed to the railway bridge and quickly cut off the detonating cord. A few minutes later, the first German armored train rumbled across the bridge, followed by a truck carrying infantry, and entered the Netherlands unimpeded, thus laying the foundation for the Germans to March straight into Belgium and France from the north wing.

On that day, the same situation can be seen everywhere on the 200-mile-long front line. But the Brandenburg army's action did not win. In Nijmegen, along the Maas River, the 100 Infantry Battalion of Brandenburg troops performing special tasks was defeated by the Dutch army and suffered heavy losses. Dutch soldiers blew up two important bridges. The attack on the bridge in Anan section of the Rhine also ended in failure. But in general, the record of German intelligence agencies is that "42 of the 665,438+0 targets planned to be captured were successfully obtained and handed over to subsequent troops." Moreover, this time, the high command and top management of the Third Reich no longer turned a blind eye to the contribution made by Brandenburg troops: three quarters of the 600 people who participated in the battle won the Iron Cross. Adolf Hitler was very satisfied. He ordered the expansion of the 800th brigade for special task training and construction into a regiment.

The rescue of Mussolini was called Operation Oak. Skorzne arrived in Rome by plane on July 26th after being ordered to rescue Mussolini. Although Rome issued martial law, the atmosphere was strangely calm, as if nothing had happened. Two or three days later, Radel arrived in Rome with 60 paratroopers and 1 0 intelligence experts selected from the 7th Airborne Regiment1Battalion, ready to start the rescue work. But there are different opinions about Mussolini's whereabouts in Rome, which is not credible. Skorzne only knew that he was taken out of the palace and sent to a certain place by ambulance. At that time, the Germans thought that even if Mussolini was kidnapped somewhere, the Italians would still abide by the provisions of the Axis Covenant and continue to fight with the Allies. With this in mind, Skorzne and his party still looked relaxed when looking for the missing fascist leader, and did not take any rude measures. As a result, after three weeks of exploration, the rescue forces still have no clue. Finally, even Himmler sighed: "We only know divination!" In desperation, Skorzne suddenly got a useful message from a fruit merchant he had known before.

The fruit merchant lives in a small town near Gaeta Bay. According to him, the maid of a big client there was engaged to a policeman guarding political prisoners on Ponca Island. They haven't dated in the last two or three weeks. Skorzne inferred from this situation that some important politicians may suddenly be imprisoned on the island. A few days later, he got further information from a young Italian naval officer. The officer said that he saw his service submarine carrying Mussolini from Raspe's Siha military port to Ponca Island.

After these situations were reported, Skorzne quickly received Hitler's order: "Take an Italian cruiser (at that time, Germany had no cruisers to send in the Mediterranean) to rescue the imprisoned people!" After the war, Skorzne recalled his feelings at that time: "This task bothered me for 24 hours. The Italian crew is staring at us. How can I save Mussolini? " The problem was solved the next day. On the same day, the Germans got new information that Mussolini was no longer on the island of Ponca. Afraid that the Germans would come to rescue him, the Italian government moved him to Sardinia as early as August 6th. First he was imprisoned in a small village at the northern end of the island, and then he was transferred to La Maddalena, a naval base guarded by Qiang Bing, 5 kilometers away from Sardinia, and was imprisoned in a mansion named "Villa Cologne" on the island. In order to verify this latest information, Skorzne came to Sardinia with people dressed as crew members, borrowed 1 motorboat from the German naval detachment stationed here, and scouted the coastal terrain around Maddalena. His men got Mussolini's information on the island from the old farmer who sent vegetables and fruits to Maddalena every day.

Villa Cologne was closely guarded by the heavy firepower of the ground troops, and Skorzne planned to avoid the frontal attack and rescue Mussolini by paratroopers. In order to carry out this plan, he returned to Germany to gather his team members, and first conducted aerial reconnaissance on Maddalena Island. 18 On Wednesday, August, Skorzne set out with his men, but their He-11plane was intercepted by British patrol fighters in Sardinia. Although it escaped the shooting of the British plane, it was forced to land on the sea because the left engine stopped working. Although all the people on board survived, Skorzne was smashed with three ribs. Fortunately, they were quickly rescued by an Italian ship. Ironically, this ship was sent by the government of Badoglio to guard the sea and carry out the task of protecting Mussolini.

After returning to Berlin with a broken rib, Skorzne immediately put forward a bold rescue plan for Hitler-launching a sea assault on the port of Maddalena Island. The specific method is to send a German warship to Maddalena Island for a "courtesy visit", and then send a small group of R boats (high-speed minesweepers) to dock. Early the next morning, the R boat carrying the commandos arrived at the trestle with the support of Ned's ship in Hong Kong, and let the players go ashore. With the support of naval guns, they rushed to cologne villa. The Italian soldiers guarding here are bound to be frightened by the sudden attack of the German army and unable to resist. Hitler immediately gave the green light to this adventure, and finally warned him that "Italy is still an ally of Germany, and from the national point of view, Italy's sovereignty is inviolable." If you succeed in this attempt, you will be appreciated, if you fail, you will be condemned. At that time, you will have no room for excuses, so I have to dismiss you. "

After an audience with Hitler, Skorzne and his men returned to Maddalena Island. This day is August 28, and the rescue operation will start the next day. They walked to a laundry near Cologne Mountain, where they watched. Skorzne came across a guard at the Cologne villa here, so he framed him and said, "I heard Mussolini seems to be dead?" The guard told him seriously, "No, he's not dead. I just saw him this morning. " He flew away in a white seaplane. "The news disappointed Skorzney, and the attack plan fell through again. A few days later, when General Stuente visited the Yano Air Force Base in blazy, about 565,438+0 kilometers away from Rome, he overheard the commander of the unit say, "There was an air raid alarm not long ago, during which a white seaplane landed here. Several people got off the plane and were taken away by an ambulance. "Studente knew that every time the Italian guards guarding Mussolini tried to move him, they would give a false air raid alarm, so he was likely to be moved to the mainland again, but where was it?

Tracking seems to be deadlocked. At this time, Skorzne and others followed Mussolini's footsteps and almost traveled all over the Italian peninsula. One day in early September, this cat-and-mouse chase finally got a new clue. German intelligence agents intercepted a telegram sent to the Italian Ministry of the Interior, which read, "The security forces near Mount Sasso have been arranged". The name of the sender "Giuseppe Gehry" caught their attention, because this person is a general of the Italian police and has been in charge of Mussolini's safety. Skorzne's eyes immediately turned to Gransaso, about 160 km northeast of Rome. This is the highest peak of the Apennines. On the eve of the war, Italians built a winter ski resort halfway up the mountain at an altitude of 2000 meters. There is a restaurant called Campo Paleta on the hill. Comprehensive analysis of all kinds of information shows that Mussolini is likely to be held in this hotel. Both Studente and Skorzne wanted to find more information about the hotel, but they found almost nothing, because the hotel was built shortly before the outbreak of World War II and was not marked on all military maps. Skorzne and his adjutant Radel immediately began flying aerial reconnaissance, and found that Campo Hotel was located on the south slope of Montkono, the highest peak of Apennines, with a height of about 1 1,800 meters. It was cleverly built on the top of a steep cliff, and the traffic was extremely inconvenient. There is only one cable car connecting the valley below 100 meters. There are about 250 soldiers around the hotel, and every road leading to this mountainous area is blocked by the Italian army. If you send ground troops to attack from the bottom up, you need a division's strength, and Mussolini may be killed by the soldiers guarding him. In order to ensure that Mussolini is really under house arrest, it is easy to defend but difficult to attack, and a ready-made "prison without walls", General Stude Ente spent a lot of thoughts. On the pretext of finding a place to recuperate for paratroopers suffering from malaria, he sent a military doctor to the hotel for reconnaissance, but the military doctor failed to board the cable car, and was stopped by a fierce officer at the cable car station, ordering him to leave here, or he would be arrested. All kinds of signs have strengthened Skorzne's judgment.

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On September 8, Italy surrendered to the allied forces, and the Germans stationed there quickly disarmed their former allies and became the masters of Italy. On the same day, Skorzne took a more direct approach, and took a He-11reconnaissance plane to conduct aerial reconnaissance in the mountainous area of Greater Sasso again, but the automatic camera on the plane failed. On the high Sasso Mountain at an altitude of 5,000 meters, Skorzne and his assistant Radel had to lean out in turn, taking pictures with Lycra cameras in their hands against the cold airflow. Although the developed photos are not very clear, you can see a small triangular flat land behind the hotel.

Skorzne immediately began to make a rescue plan. He thinks this triangle is the solution to all problems, because the steep terrain makes it impossible to enter from the ground, and because of the thin air and strong wind on the mountain, ordinary paratroopers can't land at this height. So Skorzne put forward a bold plan: use 12 gliders, each carrying 10 commandos (including drivers) from the sky, take this triangle as the landing point, storm the hotel to rescue Mussolini, and let the commandos land in the valley in the same way, capture the cable car platform, prevent the Italian army from reinforcing to the top of the mountain, and then send Mussolini to Afghanistan, a mountainous country.

When the rescue plan was reported to General Stunt, the battle-hardened veteran couldn't help secretly surprised. He submitted the plan to the headquarters for discussion, and almost no one believed it would succeed, but others couldn't think of any other way at that time, and they didn't want to offend the assault captain personally appointed by Hitler. Finally, Stunt transferred a battalion of the 7th Regiment of 1 Parachute Division, which had been fighting in Italy, to provide troops for the attack. Two companies of this battalion, under the command of Major Otto harald Morse, will reach the Grand Sasso Mountain by road and occupy the cable car station in the valley below. The third company, under the command of the one-eyed Lieutenant Colonel von bell Bearup, will land on a glider and attack the hotel. At the same time, it plans to send troops to capture L 'Aquila airport. I Brigade (I /LLG 2) of the Second Glider Wing provided the necessary aircraft for this operation.

However, Skorzne thinks I /LLG 2' s Go 242 glider is too big to land on the ground next to the hotel. Stuente immediately ordered the DFS 230 glider of the third brigade of 1 Glider Wing (III/LLG 1) to be transferred from the base in southern France. In 12 DFS 230 assault gliders used for mission, each can carry 9 fully armed paratroopers. This * * * can transport 108 soldiers, which is equivalent to 2/3 of the defenders of the hotel. In Stuart's view, the tactics of surprise attack and the superior firepower of the German army can completely make up for the shortage of personnel. It was agreed that Skorzne led a team to find Mussolini in the hotel, and the paratroopers of Belpushi were responsible for suppressing the defenders. Stunt assigned gliders No.3 and No.4 to Skorzne and his men.

This is undoubtedly a risky operation. The night before the start of the operation, Skorzne called the team members and said, "This operation is full of danger and may die at any time. If some of you don't want to attend, you can leave. I will never make any record of it, and I will not despise you for it. I will personally participate in and direct this operation. Those who are willing to participate please take a step forward. " As a result, all the players made a step forward, which made Skorzne very satisfied.

The action plan started at dawn on Sunday, September 12, but it was delayed for several hours. Due to the short voyage of Henschel HS-12/LLG 1 26, there were several stops on the way from Vallance base in the south of France to Rome, and it was not until 10:00 that morning that it arrived at Plati Kadimare in the southern suburb of Rome. However, it is also beneficial to postpone the departure time, because it will be noon when we arrive at Sasso Mountain, and Italians have the habit of taking a nap, which will inevitably reduce the possibility of encountering resistance. Skorzne used this time to send adjutant Radel to Rome, and invited General Soleti who had a good impression on the Germans. He thought that the appearance of the pro-German Italian official in the hotel with attack force would help persuade the defenders to give up their resistance. There are different opinions about whether the general is willing to take part in this operation. It was reported that he was willing to be a middleman, but he was shocked after hearing their plan, but he still agreed to go by plane with Skorzne. It is also reported that he boarded the glider under the threat of Skorzne's pistol. 12 In the early morning of September 1 1, the first batch of gliders from France arrived at the airport, and Stuente briefed the glider pilots on their tasks (these pilots thought they had come to attack the beachhead of Salenitana, where the allied forces landed! ) Hs- 126 The towing plane was quickly filled with oil, and the glider team took off in order. However, at 12:00, an air raid alarm sounded over the airport. Soon, a group of American B-25 bombers flew over the airport and dropped more than 10 bombs. Fortunately, no plane on the ground was damaged. 13: 05, Hs- 126 tractor took off with glider 1 2 at last, and then took off every 2 minutes, with a total of 5 pairs. Except the last glider 1 1 and 12 crashed into the crater on the runway, all the gliders were successfully launched.

In the first tractor. 1, sitting behind the driver is Captain Gerhard Langguth, Stuart's intelligence officer. Four days ago, he and Skorzenei conducted aerial reconnaissance on He-11,so he was the only one in the tractor crew who actually saw the landing zone. However, two planes towing gliders 1 and 2 lost their way in dense fog and thick clouds and had to return halfway. In this way, Skorzne and Soleti's Glider III became pilots. The plane flies in the clouds from time to time, and the view in the glider is not good and it is very hot. General Soleti and several team members are already airsick. Skorzne decisively pulled out his paratrooper knife, cut several holes in the fabric wall of the glider, let cool air enter the cabin, observe the ground through this crack, and tell the driver the correct route from time to time. After about 1 hour, the fleet arrived at the predetermined area, Skorzne ordered the gliders to decouple from the tractor, and eight gliders began to descend from an altitude of 3,600 meters. At about 1000 meters from the ground, the soldiers jumped at their respective targets in two ways.

Just as the plane in Skorzne was about to land, the pilot found that the pre-selected triangle was not only covered with stones, but also had a greater slope than previously estimated. The Italians poetically described it as a part of the ski run in the holiday manual before the war! The unevenness of the ground means that the danger of landing is far greater than expected in advance. Captain Heinrich, the pilot of Flight 3, was at a loss. At this time, Skorzne behind him shouted: "Land quickly! Land as close to the hotel as possible! " The driver recalled the scene when he landed afterwards and said, "The little black dot in the field of vision quickly turned into a building. Although the nose of the glider is equipped with a deceleration device, it is difficult for us to slow down, so I changed my course and approached the landing zone with strong updraft from the ridge. I looked out, hoping to see the enemy's activities, but at first everything remained calm. When I flew about 150 meters above the hotel, the soldiers in the hotel poured out like ants whose nests had been stabbed. However, they don't seem to have much hostility. They just stood there and stared at the attackers who seemed to fall from the dazzling sunshine. "

"After a quick judgment, I turned the heavy glider sharply to the left and turned on the deceleration rocket again. This time, the plane quickly lowered its altitude and its nose fell in the direction of the hotel. When the barbed wire wound on the landing sled (the purpose is to shorten the landing distance) was cut off by the gravel head on the ground like a thin rope, the whole plane shook violently and stopped only 40 meters away from the hotel gate steps. " Skorzne commanded his men to quickly subdue the Italian guards around the hotel, and then pushed General Soleti into the hotel. At this time, he saw Mussolini's face appear from a window on the second floor, and quickly shouted to him: "Go back! Leave the window! " A grim-faced Soleti shouted to the Italian guards, "Don't shoot! We don't need to bleed! " Some of the guards put down their weapons and stood still, while others fled into the mountains.

When other gliders landed one after another, Skorzne's team rushed into the hotel with submachine guns. First, they subdued the radio correspondent in the hotel and smashed the wireless communication equipment with gun butts. The Italian guards in the hotel were in a mess, and with the influx of more commandos, the Italian soldiers surrendered. Later, Skorzne went straight to Mussolini's room, which is the front ballroom of the hotel. Persuaded by Mussolini, the two Italian officers in charge of guarding him in the room surrendered without resistance. The whole rescue process was very rapid. It took only four minutes from the landing of the first glider (No.3) to controlling the hotel, and almost no resistance was encountered. Mussolini was rescued without firing a shot. The unshaven fascist leader hugged Skorzne tightly and sobbed, "I know my old friend Hitler didn't abandon me!" " "When everything subsided, the commando gliders No.6 and No.7 just landed, and the last landing plane No.8 crashed into a raised hillside outside the hotel while taxiing. The plane was badly damaged, and all the people on board were injured. It was the only person injured in this operation.

After Mussolini was rescued, the next task was to send him away safely. The cable car station has been occupied by the Germans, but there are still a large number of Italian troops on the other side of the valley, and it is impossible to break through the mountains. As all the radio equipment was destroyed, they could not contact Rome. I don't know if the Germans have occupied the airport in L 'Aquila. As a backup plan, Skorz arranged a Hs- 126 plane to take Mussolini away before the operation, but the plane was damaged when landing, and the fuel on board leaked, so it could not take off again. At this time, all hopes are pinned on a small single-engine reconnaissance plane hovering over the hotel. This plane was specially sent by General Stunt to observe the rescue operation. Its pilot is the German ace pilot Captain Cerrah, who is also Stunt's adjutant and private pilot. When Studente learned from the radio that Skorzne had succeeded, he was a little skeptical, but he ordered Gerlach to find a way to help the commandos. After receiving the order, Gerlach began to lower the flying height, hovering over the hills, ready to land.

Skorzne commanded the commandos and surrendered Italian soldiers to push the glider behind the hotel to one side and roughly trim the ground to prepare for the landing of the reconnaissance plane. At this point, several German war reporters who occupied the cableway station at the foot of the mountain with the first battalion of paratroopers were allowed to come to the mountain via the cableway. These unknown reporters used their cameras and video cameras to record the subsequent events, including the footage of Captain Cerrah carefully landing the plane on this temporary runway. After the plane landed, everyone went to find too many chefs and pushed the light plane that could only carry two people to the scheduled take-off position. When it was learned that Skorzene was going to leave on this plane with Mussolini, Gerlach refused very firmly. Because this plane is designed to carry two people, it is doubtful whether the plane can take off if it carries Mussolini weighing 90 kilograms and the assault captain weighing the same 90 kilograms. But after Skorzini insisted on personally escorting Mussolini to a safe place, and hinted that this was Hitler's instruction, Gerlach compromised. 12 commandos stood at the rear of the plane, dragging the plane tightly. They didn't let go until Gerlach raised his arm to signal that the engine speed reached the ideal position and could take off. The plane bounced in the open space and almost hit a big stone, but under the control of experienced Cerrah, the plane staggered into the sky, circled around the hotel for a week, and then flew directly to Platica airport on the outskirts of Rome. After landing safely, Skorzne escorted Mussolini to take the He-11plane and transfer to Vienna. Operation Oak has been completed.

After arriving in Vienna, Mussolini flew to Munich by 13, where he met his wife and two children who had escaped from Italy. /kloc-In September of 0/7, Mussolini made his debut in BLACKPINK again in Salo, northern Italy, and established a puppet regime "Italian society * * * and country" completely controlled by the Germans. Skorzenei received a heroic welcome in Vienna and Berlin, and he became famous overnight. Radio stations all over Europe broadcast the news of rescue over and over again, and his name appeared in the newspaper in the largest eye-catching font. Even Churchill mentioned Skorzne's name in his speech in the House of Commons, saying that "this is a brave and fearless performance ... which undoubtedly shows that there are many such opportunities to show people's brave spirit in modern wars."

Although the rescue of Mussolini itself is not of great strategic significance to Germany, the German propaganda department is obviously aware of the great propaganda effect of this action. Under their vigorous rendering, Skorzene became a well-known war hero in Germany. Goebbels also sent a film crew to Sasso Mountain to remake the rescue process, and Skorzene himself was promoted to major and won the Knights Cross.

The most daring rescue operation in German history "Operation Oak" is called "the devil's masterpiece".

1944 12.23 at dusk, Dinan, a small Belgian town, located beside the cliffs on both sides of the Meuse River, was shrouded in a tense atmosphere. It happened to be the solstice of winter, and the dark gray Belgian sky was gloomy, and the air was gloomy and cold, as if it were going to pierce people's skin. The task of defending Dinan is an armored detachment under the 29th British Armored Brigade, hundreds of black drivers of the trench troops of the US Army, and a group of engineers, gendarmes and members of the army aviation who have not received combat training.

At this time, the German 2nd Armored Division was violently attacking the Meuse River Bridge through the Ardennes forest. Seven days have passed since the "Battle of the Protrusion" began, and the Germans, like knives inserted in butter, tore a gap in the western front. Once the German armored forces occupy the Meuse River Bridge near Dinan, the passage to Antwerp, the largest port in western Europe, will suddenly open, and the allied forces with poor strength will be unable to resist, and the situation of 1940 is bound to repeat itself. Under the command of the British commander Colonel A·W· Braun, Dinan's defenders waited nervously for the arrival of the German army. It was almost midnight, when suddenly the sound of an engine came from the Woods, and the sentry at the checkpoint clenched his rifle. Suddenly, a jeep carrying four American soldiers suddenly appeared, ignored the sentry's stop signal, rushed through the checkpoint like lightning, and galloped towards the south of Di. Just a minute later, the jeep touched a mine laid by the allied forces, causing an earth-shattering explosion. The jeep suddenly fell apart and became a pile of scrap metal. American and British soldiers flocked to the jeep that had an accident and killed it. The scene was filled with choking smoke, and in the debris of the jeep, the bodies of soldiers with mutilated limbs were lying, all wearing American uniforms.

For a long time after that, the American and British soldiers stood on the roadside, silently at a loss: this is the tragedy caused by the war, and their brother actually died in a mine laid by himself. At this time, a sergeant had a whim and squatted down to prepare for the autopsy of the dead soldier. He pulled open the collar of the first body by the light of a flashlight, ready to take off his identification card. Don't look at You Ke, this look almost stunned the kind sergeant. On the dark green American winter clothes, there is a double lightning sign of SS. These four "American soldiers" who were killed turned out to be Germans!

From the first few days of the "battle of the bulge", the American and British troops often encountered such strange things in various places on the Ardennes front, which was as long as 130 kilometers. Similar reports have also reached the headquarters of various units, which are also mixed with gossip fabricated by allied soldiers themselves, which makes the headquarters of the allied forces have a headache. The news spread not only across the front line, but also from the rear: 300 German paratroopers disguised as American soldiers secretly gathered in the Bess Cafe in Paris, ready to attack Eisenhower's headquarters and capture the supreme allied commander alive; The old farmer in Brittany vividly said that a large number of Germans wearing American military uniforms landed from mid-air at night; Even in London, it is said that a large number of German soldiers disguised as British soldiers sneaked into the British Isles, sneaked into the prison camp unnoticed, prepared to rescue the German prisoners of war inside, and launched a large-scale riot in the British rear area ... In this way, in the first week of the German counterattack in Ardennes, there was an atmosphere of terror behind the allies that had never been seen in the history of war, which Berlin did not expect when it hastily made the Griffin plan two months ago. Otto Skorzeny, the SS colonel who made this operational plan, once again won unprecedented success with his bold and cautious style. The deceived allied soldiers admired him so much that they began to call him "the most dangerous man in Europe"