Meet Otto Skorzeny, the towering SS commando with the famous dueling scar, who engineered the spectacular 1943 rescue of ...
The incredible World War II saga of the German-Jewish commandos who fought in Britain’s most secretive special-forces unit — but whose story has gone untold until now. June 1942. The shadow of the ...
Ulrich Wegener, the police commando who led the 1977 West German raid that rescued 90 people from a Lufthansa jetliner that four militants had hijacked and flown to Somalia, died Dec. 28 in Cologne.
NEW YORK (Tribune News Service) — Life as they knew it was snatched away. The Nazis took all: their families, homes, and countries. In the end, all they had left were their names. Then they gave up ...
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Epic events in World War II are memorialized every year because they are tied to a certain date. But what about the Battle of the Bulge? The pivotal fight against Nazi Germany doesn't have one ...
BERLIN (AP) - The commander of a German paramilitary unit that ended the 1977 hijacking of a plane by Palestinian militants has died. Ulrich Wegener was the first commander of the GSG-9 unit, created ...