On Hitler's direct order, SS man Otto Skorzeny led the spectacular 1943 rescue of this man from an Italian prison
[DOC] [TLE] Gran Sasso raid - Wikipedia [PAR] The Gran Sasso raid refers to Operation Eiche ("Oak"), the rescue of Italian 
dictator Benito Mussolini by German paratroopers led by Major Otto-Harald Mors 
and Waffen-SS commandos in September 1943, during World War II.