About
In February 1940, he joined the German army as Artillery Captain.
After taking part in the façades of France and the Netherlands, he participated in the Balkan operation as a lieutenant.
In 1940, he entered the 2nd SS Panzer Division "Das Reich".
In 1943, RSHHA was taken to the Sabotage Department (VI. Branch).
On July 29, 1943, the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) and the German Army (Heer) were specially selected and assigned by Hitler to save Benito Mussolini.
On September 13, he carried out air operations with the commandos he took with him and saved Mussolini from the Gran Sasso Hotel.
Therefore, the name of the operation is the Gran Sasso Operation.
In November 1943, Hitler appointed Skorzeny to kill a leading leader in Bosnia.
The Partisan leader had managed to escape, but this time the Russians had fallen into the hands of the Russians, and Hitler had survived this problem thanks to Skorzeny.
In 1944, he participated in the arrest of Hungarian Empire's regent Miklós Horthy.
His last task awaiting Skorzeny was to infiltrate and sabotage allied lines with German spies, who could speak English in Ardenler Attack.
In this attack, he was the commander of the 150th SS Panzer Brigade.
He did his part in this mission, but he could not change the course of the war.
In 1945, he was promoted to the rank of Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel) and was appointed as the Union Manager of the SS Hunter troops on the Eastern Front (Verbandsführer).
On May 15, 1945, he was arrested by the Allied forces, the Americans became a prisoner of war, but was acquitted of lack of evidence.
He was tried in 1947 as a war criminal in the Dachau Courts on the grounds that he violated the laws of war in the Battle of Bulge.
On August 18, 1947, he was appointed to a US military court in Dachau.
The trial lasted for three weeks.