Chapter 056: Saving Mussolini
Italy surrendered, and Hitler immediately asked Rommel to lead a force into northern Italy, join up with the local German army, and build a defensive line.
After the surrender of Italy, the Germans immediately disarmed the local Italian army.
At this time Mussolini was imprisoned in a house, his place of detention had changed many times, and now he himself did not care where he was held, and of course the Germans did not know where Mussolini was held,
At this moment Mussolini very much hoped that someone would come to save him, and he knew that if no one came to save him, what awaited him,
But although he was full of hope that someone would come to save him, of course, the most reliable object was Hitler, but the overheating of his belief did not know where he was imprisoned, and when he thought about the fact that he had often dragged the Germans back, and that the Germans wished that he would die sooner, he felt hopeless when he thought about it,
Mussolini recalled his voice at this moment, there was pain, there was a low, and there was a glory,
Mussolini remembered that he was born on July 29, 1883 in the province of Forlì, Italy, to a warm and poor family of blacksmiths, and that his father, Alessandro, was a blacksmith who had read socialist books, and that he named his son after Benito Juarede, the liberator of Mexico, and that his early belief in socialism and atheism was influenced by his father.
When he was young, everyone thought that he was uneducated, rude and aggressive, and was even suspended from school many times, he was eager to go up but could not do so, he was full of heart but had nowhere to show it, and the imbalance in his heart made him even shout "I will make the world tremble in the future." At the age of 18, he joined the Italian Socialist Party, a radical left-wing party at the time.
At the age of 20, he lived in Switzerland, became acquainted with a group of revolutionaries, and led to his expulsion for political activity.
In the late 10s, he lived in Trentino, Austria, and at this time developed feelings for nationalism; He also read the works of the philosophers Nietzsche and Saul,
In 1911 he spent five months in prison for opposing Italy's military campaign against the Ottoman Empire in Libya,
In 1912, he became a leading member of the Italian Socialist Party and the party newspaper "Forward." When World War I broke out in 1914, he was the leader of the Socialist Party in the Ministry of Welfare and the editor of the party's newspaper, Forward.
After participating in the work, I came into contact with a lot of people, and I understood the world more truly, and I found that utopia is useless, and only with the strength in my hands can I change the country and even the whole world according to my own wishes.
Towards this goal he finally founded the right-wing interventionist newspaper "The Italian People" in Milan two years later, and in another year he withdrew himself from the Italian Socialist Party,
In March 1919, he initiated the establishment of the "Fighting Fascists" organization in Milan, and in 1921, the organization was renamed the "Italian National Fascist Party", becoming the leader of the party, and in October 1922, he commanded the party's military organization "Black Shirts" to march into Rome, and successfully seized power, serving as prime minister.
Later, his career was smooth sailing, but unfortunately he suffered bad luck this year, in fact, he can't blame himself, it's just that the Italians can't do it, it's not his own ability.
These people are the descendants of the Romans, thinking about how powerful Italy was when their ancestors conquered most of Europe and the Mediterranean Sea became the inland sea of Italy.
I don't know if it was because the ancestors fought wars for thousands of years, and when they arrived in the future, they could no longer afford to take up weapons, and they worked so hard to restore the glory of Rome, but unfortunately these people didn't understand, and they made countless jokes,
When I think of those digestions, I am angry to death, and the most damned thing is that a Chinese named Zhongpu also published these jokes in a obscene novel he wrote called "The Great Warlord of the Republic of China",
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While Mussolini was reviewing the bits and pieces of his life, Hitler was already planning how to rescue him,
Skorzny, full name Otto Skorzny, Korzny entered the University of Vienna to study engineering under the influence of his father, and throughout the university Skorzny participated in 14 duels, the 10th of which left a distinct sword wound on his left cheek, known as the "Scar of Honor", which also became his most characteristic personal symbol, and later the Allied soldiers gave him an image nickname, "Scarface", these duels brought more than just scars to Skorzny, he once recalled: " The countless physical and mental exercises I exercised when I was a student enabled me to be fearless in the face of danger, and even in the midst of a raging battle, I was able to remain calm and unfazed...... Just like a sword duel, in a chaotic war, it is necessary to concentrate on striking the enemy, and we must not waste time trying to dodge the enemy, but must firmly grasp the target and then strike at it with all our might. ”
In 1931, after graduating from university, Skorzny joined the Austrian Nazi organization and became a stormtrooper whose 1.92-meter size made him an excellent Nazi thug in the street scuffle on the eve of the German-Austrian merger, and when World War II broke out in 1939, Skorzny already had his own engineering design office, and was well-known in Vienna, and the 31-year-old Skorzny had experience flying single-engine aircraft, so he wanted to be a pilot, but after 5 months of training, The Luftwaffe rejected him on the grounds that he was too old and overstated.
However, the Air Force suggested that Skorzny was fit to serve in the ground forces, so Skorzny switched to signing up for the 1st SS "Adolf Hitler" Division, known as Hitler's personal bodyguard, in February 1940, and was assigned to the division's "Moonlight Squadron" (named after its commander's preference for training at night) in the division, and of the 12 young men admitted in the same batch, Skorzny was the oldest. But soon distinguished himself by his strong physique and the fearlessness he had developed through duels, and he was promoted to the rank of candidate officer and transferred to the 2nd SS "Reich" division.
Skorzner's frequent use of cunning and unconventional methods of warfare in battle on the Eastern Front attracted the attention of some high-ranking SS officials,
At the beginning of 1942, Skorzny returned to Berlin from the hospital in Vienna and was transferred to the 1st SS Panzer Division's armory in Leibstadt, outside Berlin, where he worked as a technical clerk and maintenance worker.
Soon after, Skorzny's fortunes took a peculiar turn, he received an order to report to the Waffen-SS headquarters, at this time the world war had entered the middle stage, Hitler suddenly became interested in the British special forces, the British army often could not deal with large German forces to send small groups of special forces, carry out a variety of offensive operations, and always win more occasions,
Hitler liked to read the works of Karl May, and admired the British guerrilla master "Lawrence of Arabia" who established miracles in the Arabian Peninsula during World War I, at this time Hitler told Himmler that he also wanted to form a small detachment similar to the British special forces, so that he could complete the special tasks directly assigned by him at any time, and Hitler insisted that this force should be formed in the British way, and even the name was completely imitated by the name of the British special forces "Commando",
Many members of the German High Command expressed unease about the formation of such an unorthodox force, because the officer corps had always regarded the military profession as a forbidden domain for the nobles, Junkers and knights, and the special forces were not above board to "sneak up and sabotage", which was detrimental to the honor of the German army and a desecration of the military profession, and there were already many such strange units formed out of Hitler's "whim", and they were particularly worried that this kind of unit would become very powerful because of the direct contact with Hitler,
The criteria put forward by the Supreme High Command were simple: firstly, a daring, energetic and technically competent commander was needed, but secondly, this man must also be a simple-minded and easily dominated philistine, who had no political ambitions, and who would not become another prince of the Third Reich like Himmler, who had climbed from a small man to the head of the SS, and who had attracted the attention of the upper echelons thanks to the recommendation of a friend in the SS, who was working as a maintenance officer in the repair shop, On 18 April 1943, he was promoted to captain and appointed by the newly appointed head of the Reich Central Security Directorate-General of the SS Reich, his Austrian compatriot Carldenbloner, as Germany's first special unit, the "Fredenthal Unit".
Since the establishment of the army, they have not done any decent tasks, as if they have been forgotten, or they are reluctant to go out to set wolves, every day is training, training, the team members wait for the task every day, but unfortunately every day in addition to training is to drink and eat,
On this day, in the restaurant of the Eden Hotel in Berlin, Hitler's special forces commando Skolzny and several of his partners were drinking freely, several bottles of Bavarian red wine overturned under the table, the drinker's eyes were red, and he was scolding incoherently, and the fashionable singer on the stage sang to a feverish **, but it could not arouse the interest of Skozenu and others at all,
At the beginning of the day, an SS soldier hurriedly pushed the door open, came to the drunken Skozenu, and whispered to him: "Captain, the base headquarters is looking for you everywhere, and the head of the state will receive you at the base camp, and I have heard that there is an urgent mission, and the plane is ready." ”
Skorzny immediately lost most of his drunkenness, hurriedly beckoned several of his subordinates, and drove straight to the airport, where he boarded the plane and said to the waiting pilot, "Hurry, Rastenburg." "Of course it's Wolfsburg, where Hitler's wolf's den is located,