Point I was making was that had he been left to die slowly and painfully of cancer (as he did OTL, rather than quickly and painlessly ITTL), further innocent lives would have been lost...
How Silent Fall the Cherry Blossoms
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Might be referring to the staggering civilian death toll from Operation Carthage. Alternately, it could be the fact that Ishii was killed before he could inflict more evil on his victims.
katchen
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Very good Geon! Very Hollywood indeed! Pete's being rescued by the Cossacks after almost being scalped by Japanese who look a lot like Indians, torture like Indians and have some of the same ideas of bravery as Native Americans too.
anchors at sea
Hi Geon,
I joined this board only to be able to brag that I helped a master storyteller ...
When the SS raiders hijacked the Swedish freighter, they demanded that it “Bring the ship to a full stop and drop anchor!” (post #1070) Now the biggest boat I have been on is a 27 foot sailboat in the Chesapeake Bay, but an ocean going vessel dropping anchor in the high seas sounds wrong. Aren't anchors supposed to rest on the ground, acting as a tether so keep ships from floating loose and free with the tide?
Oh well, its only worth fixing if you collect all this work up and publish it as a book.
Thank you for your time.
Hi Geon,
I joined this board only to be able to brag that I helped a master storyteller ...
When the SS raiders hijacked the Swedish freighter, they demanded that it “Bring the ship to a full stop and drop anchor!” (post #1070) Now the biggest boat I have been on is a 27 foot sailboat in the Chesapeake Bay, but an ocean going vessel dropping anchor in the high seas sounds wrong. Aren't anchors supposed to rest on the ground, acting as a tether so keep ships from floating loose and free with the tide?
Oh well, its only worth fixing if you collect all this work up and publish it as a book.
Thank you for your time.
there is a sea anchor as well. you aren't touching bottom, but it helps maintain the boat more or less in one place even at sea
Hi Geon, just finished all 100 pages and enjoyed it very much. If I ca, small correction. General Zhukov and General Konev going after promotion for Marchals of the Soviet Union. Actually, Zhukov got this promotion in January 1943 for braking siege of Leningrad and Konev in February 1944 for Korun-Shevchenkovsky Offensive.
Geon
Donor
Skorzeny Bio
Hey everyone, this isn't an update but Michel Van did an excellent revised (because of this TL) and detailed biography of Otto Skorzeny which I liked that he will be posting on this thread. Please look it over and enjoy it with my blessings.
Oh and [spoiler alert] I have to say this-if you liked FDR's departure you are going to love what Hitler is going to experience as he enters the next world
!
Geon
P.S. Thanks to all of you old and new readers who have commented and enjoyed this story. I do really appreciate it!
Hey everyone, this isn't an update but Michel Van did an excellent revised (because of this TL) and detailed biography of Otto Skorzeny which I liked that he will be posting on this thread. Please look it over and enjoy it with my blessings.
Oh and [spoiler alert] I have to say this-if you liked FDR's departure you are going to love what Hitler is going to experience as he enters the next world
!Geon
P.S. Thanks to all of you old and new readers who have commented and enjoyed this story. I do really appreciate it!
Oh and [spoiler alert] I have to say this-if you liked FDR's departure you are going to love what Hitler is going to experience as he enters the next world
Hitler Goes To Hell: The Final Fascism
Personally, I'd rather him be captured alive, and put in the dock at Nuremburg (or whereever those trials are held in this timelime).
David in Canada
Banned
Call it a desire for revenge, but I'd rather Hitler be captured by the Soviets and kept prisoner in a dark cage located deep in the bowels of Lubyanka prison kept in the dark and incommunicado save for a small crack of light in the morning and night as he is delivered his 'meal' of stagnant water, moldy bread and half-rotten meat. Of course, he'd be free to supplement his diet with all the lice he can eat and all the rodents he can catch.
Of course, being placed in the middle of a human centipede with Himmler and Goebbels works just as well. Am I being just a *tad* too harsh?
David in Canada
Banned
Hirohito ITTL is probably praying that the Americans get Hitler's head. If it is the Soviets who get Hitler, an enraged American populace would be braying for the Emperor's neck in order to satiate their blood lust.
I firmly believe that OTL, a lot more people were prosecuted and convicted at the Nuremburg trials precisely because Hitler as well as Himmler and Goebbels weren't alive to punish so they had to punish the others more harshly in order to satiate the desire for revenge and justice. For starters, with a living Hitler in the dock, I can see Doenitz avoiding indictment and Jodl perhaps being acquitted. Speer might have received immunity for turning state's witness due to his intimate knowledge of Hitler and avoided prison altogether.
Does my theory make sense? If not, please feel free to disabuse me of my errors.
Geon
Donor
I can see Doenitz avoiding indictment and Jodl perhaps being acquitted.
David
One thing, if you look at one of my posts a ways back you will discover that Doenitz is already dead by his own hand. He committed suicide rather then be involved in actively taking part in any way with "Trojan Victory."
Geon
Garrison
Donor
Hirohito ITTL is probably praying that the Americans get Hitler's head. If it is the Soviets who get Hitler, an enraged American populace would be braying for the Emperor's neck in order to satiate their blood lust.
I firmly believe that OTL, a lot more people were prosecuted and convicted at the Nuremburg trials precisely because Hitler as well as Himmler and Goebbels weren't alive to punish so they had to punish the others more harshly in order to satiate the desire for revenge and justice. For starters, with a living Hitler in the dock, I can see Doenitz avoiding indictment and Jodl perhaps being acquitted. Speer might have received immunity for turning state's witness due to his intimate knowledge of Hitler and avoided prison altogether.
Does my theory make sense? If not, please feel free to disabuse me of my errors.
As has been pointed out Doenitz is already dead and as for Hirohito his efforts to bring the war to an end have probably saved his neck regardless.
David in Canada
Banned
Oops. When I referred to Doenitz avoiding indictment and Jodl being acquitted, I was referring to our timeline. I should have been clearer on that point.
Geon
Donor
Attack on Tokyo
Here is an account of the Second Tokyo Fire Raid.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: February 9, 1945
Location: Tokyo
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Hideki Tojo and the rest of the war cabinet were just settling down to their first monthly meeting of the newly formed War Cabinet when the sound of air raid sirens filled the conference room they were in. The place of meeting had been shifted to this army base on the northern outskirts of Tokyo for the sake of security. None of those at the meeting realized that no less then the Emperor himself had already revealed the date and time of their meetings to the approaching American bombers.
This time the Allies were determined to ensure the success of their attack. One thousand B-29s roared at low altitude over the city all armed with high explosives and incendiaries, no mustard gas was authorized for this raid. The objective was to flatten the army base and the surrounding area and ensure nothing living survived within that area. As before orders had been strictly given that the Imperial Palace was to be off limits.
Flying at low altitude was dangerous business as it left the bombers open to both antiaircraft fire and fighters. But only by flying at low altitude could there be any hope of ensuring that the War Cabinet was dead.
As the bombers entered Tokyo airspace fighters rose to meet them diving on the planes from above. The planes droned on even as their numbers began to fall as antiaircraft and fighters began to take their toll. B-29s began to fall out of formation, many of them on fire and plummeting to the ground below. Here and there the skies were filled with parachutes of crew who had been fortunate to bail out in time; though fortunate might be a relative term as many of them would not survive long after landing. Many in the military had urged civilians to lynch American air crew who were downed over Tokyo and given what many Japanese had suffered in the Carthage raids too many were very happy to do exactly this.
The bombers bored in and began to drop their deadly payloads in the northern part of Tokyo particularly in and around the army base the war cabinet was at. For the next half hour hell rained from the sky over northern and parts of central Tokyo. Fires raged throughout the area and then slowly merged into one blaze fed by wooden structures and by a wind drawing air into the blaze a firestorm formed. From his palace, the Emperor could see the sky let up as bright as day to the north as flames consumed much of the area. The Emperor wept as he realized how many of his citizens were dying in this inferno. The fact that it was necessary did not take away the agony of knowing just how many innocent civilians were dying this night.
The bombers departed after a half an hour. Of the 1,000 bombers that had participated in the raid 977 would return to base. Many of those that did make it back intact to Saipan would not fly again. All told over 300 American airmen died in the raid. The number of dead on the ground is still debated by historians to this day as many were simply cremated in their homes. Conservatively the Second Tokyo Fire Raid would be said to have taken another 200,000 lives on the ground.
The loss of life had been great but the next day word would reach the Emperor that his plan had indeed succeeded. Searchers sent to comb the ruins of the army base had discovered the War Cabinet had taken shelter in an air raid bunker on the army base. However, the air in the bunker had slowly but surely been replaced by carbon monoxide as all the oxygen in the air outside was consumed in the fires. In addition the temperature of the fires outside had been such that many of those in the shelter had roasted alive even as they suffocated.
Even though the Allies would not know it for a time, the Second Tokyo Fire Raid had been a complete success.
Here is an account of the Second Tokyo Fire Raid.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: February 9, 1945
Location: Tokyo
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Hideki Tojo and the rest of the war cabinet were just settling down to their first monthly meeting of the newly formed War Cabinet when the sound of air raid sirens filled the conference room they were in. The place of meeting had been shifted to this army base on the northern outskirts of Tokyo for the sake of security. None of those at the meeting realized that no less then the Emperor himself had already revealed the date and time of their meetings to the approaching American bombers.
This time the Allies were determined to ensure the success of their attack. One thousand B-29s roared at low altitude over the city all armed with high explosives and incendiaries, no mustard gas was authorized for this raid. The objective was to flatten the army base and the surrounding area and ensure nothing living survived within that area. As before orders had been strictly given that the Imperial Palace was to be off limits.
Flying at low altitude was dangerous business as it left the bombers open to both antiaircraft fire and fighters. But only by flying at low altitude could there be any hope of ensuring that the War Cabinet was dead.
As the bombers entered Tokyo airspace fighters rose to meet them diving on the planes from above. The planes droned on even as their numbers began to fall as antiaircraft and fighters began to take their toll. B-29s began to fall out of formation, many of them on fire and plummeting to the ground below. Here and there the skies were filled with parachutes of crew who had been fortunate to bail out in time; though fortunate might be a relative term as many of them would not survive long after landing. Many in the military had urged civilians to lynch American air crew who were downed over Tokyo and given what many Japanese had suffered in the Carthage raids too many were very happy to do exactly this.
The bombers bored in and began to drop their deadly payloads in the northern part of Tokyo particularly in and around the army base the war cabinet was at. For the next half hour hell rained from the sky over northern and parts of central Tokyo. Fires raged throughout the area and then slowly merged into one blaze fed by wooden structures and by a wind drawing air into the blaze a firestorm formed. From his palace, the Emperor could see the sky let up as bright as day to the north as flames consumed much of the area. The Emperor wept as he realized how many of his citizens were dying in this inferno. The fact that it was necessary did not take away the agony of knowing just how many innocent civilians were dying this night.
The bombers departed after a half an hour. Of the 1,000 bombers that had participated in the raid 977 would return to base. Many of those that did make it back intact to Saipan would not fly again. All told over 300 American airmen died in the raid. The number of dead on the ground is still debated by historians to this day as many were simply cremated in their homes. Conservatively the Second Tokyo Fire Raid would be said to have taken another 200,000 lives on the ground.
The loss of life had been great but the next day word would reach the Emperor that his plan had indeed succeeded. Searchers sent to comb the ruins of the army base had discovered the War Cabinet had taken shelter in an air raid bunker on the army base. However, the air in the bunker had slowly but surely been replaced by carbon monoxide as all the oxygen in the air outside was consumed in the fires. In addition the temperature of the fires outside had been such that many of those in the shelter had roasted alive even as they suffocated.
Even though the Allies would not know it for a time, the Second Tokyo Fire Raid had been a complete success.
How Silent Fall the Cherry Blossoms guest post by Me, with permission of Geon
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Otto Skorzeny bio.
Otto Skorzeny (*12 june 1908 in Vienna - †16 december 1944 in Boston)
was an SS-Obersturmbannfüher in the German Waffen-SS during WW2
As Field Commander he carry out several distinguished operation
most notorious became Skorzeny with suicide bombing of Boston harbor in 1944.
Early years
Otto Skorzeny was born in Vienna, in a middle class family with polish roots.
The Skorzeny family has long tradition of Military service
During his teens he suffer under living condition of Great Depression succumb Austria
In his time as a University student, he became a noted Fencer in German National Burschenschaft.
with thirteen personal fence duels, during the tenth duel he received a dramatic dueling scare on his Cheek
(not like the Nazi Propaganda and other claims during combat in Waffen-SS)
1931 Skorzeny join the austrian NSDAP, as Member of Sturm Abteilung (SA).
during the Anschluss of Austria by Third Reich, He saved Austrian President Wihel Miklas from being lynched by SA.
Word War Two
Skorzeny work as civil engineer, try to volunteers for service in the Luftwaffe, but was refuse because to tall with 6 ft 3/6 in (1.92 meters)
So he join Waffen-SS, the bodyguard regiment "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler" as Officer
Begin of WW2, he served with the 2nd SS Panzer Division "Das Reich" and subsequently fought in several battles on east front.
During Battle of Moscow he had the Order to capture the sluices of the Moscow-Volga Canal and floot the City by opening them.
but the mission was canceled as Wehrmacht fails to capture the Soviet Capital.
December 1942 he was awarded the Iron Cross for bravery under Fire while he was hospitalized in Vienna, he was given a staff role in Berlin.
Under this assignment he could red all the literature on commando warfare, his ideas on unconventional commando warfare were offers to the high command.
The proposal is to development of Units specialized in unconventional warfare, like partsan-like fighting deep behind enemy lines, fighting in enemy uniform, commit sabotage attacks.
So the SS charged Skorzeny with commend of the Waffen-SS Sonderverband z.d.V. Friedenthal , were he train the commend in sabotage, espionage and paramilitary means
Opération Francois
begin Summer 1943 the Sonderverband z.d.V. Friedenthal send a group paratrooper into Iran,
To make contact with the dissident tribes and encourage them to sabotage allies supplies lines to USSR over Trans-Iranian Railway.
but the Operation was a failure, because the tribes was highly suspect in there commitment.
Unternehmen Eiche - Rescue of italian dictator Benito Mussolini
in July 1943 Hitler personally select Otto Skorzeny together with six special agents from Luftwaffe and Wehrmacht, to lead the Operation Oak: the liberation of dictator Benito Mussolini!
After deathly Cat and Mouse game with Italians, on September 12 the Commando rescue Benito Mussolini from Campo Imperatore Hotel on top of Gran Sasso mountain.
Skorzeny escorted Mussolini to Berlin and was promoted to Sturmbannführer of SS and Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross personal given by Adolph Hitler.
Unternehmen Weitsprung - planned attempt to assassinate of Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt during 1943 Tehran Conference.
Is unclear if this Operation was real or not, because the first Information is from Soviet intelligence agency NKVD.
they claim there were commando under Otto Skorzeny for assassinate of "big three" of Allies forces.
Although was a order by Hitler about a "Operation long Jump" against the 1943 Tehran Conference, but is unclear what action had to be taken.
some Historians like Michel Van have the theory that this actually was a rumor by Skorzeny to scaring off the Allies.
Unternehmen Rösselsprung - An attempt to Capture Josip Broz Tito
Spring 1944 the "Sonderverband z.d.V. Friedenthal" re-designated "SS-Jäger Bataillon 502"
Original Skorzeny had to be in command, but during planning he discover that to carelessness of German agents in Croatia, that Aillies and marchall Tito was warned
The operation was put into action and end in total disaster, the Paratroop landed in ambush of Tito escort Battalion
on 20 July 1944
Skorzeny helped to crush the rebellion, stay 36 hours in charge of Wehrmacht's central command center
and personally arrested Claus von Stauffenberg and other main conspirators at there HQ in Bendlerblock.
Unternehmen EisenFaust - Kidnapping of Mikros Hort Jr.
October Hitler gave order to Skorzeny to go Hungary to kidnapped Admiral Horthy's son Miklos Horthy, Jr.
So to force the admiral to resign as head of state. and succesful to install a pro Nazi government in Hungary.
Himmler promote Skorzeny to Obersturmbennführer.
Unternehmen Greif - a False flag Operation during Unternehmen Rächt am Rhein (only preparation)
for upcoming counter-offensive Watch on the Rhine, plan Skorzeny to infiltrating the allied frontier with english speaking SS-troops dressed and equipped as US Troops.
They had to cause disorder and confusion behind the Allies lines including spread a rumor that Skorzeny is out to kill General Eisenhower.
but Skorzeny was called of this operation in November 1944 by Heinrich Himmler for a special briefing on Unternehmen Trojanischer Sieg,
Operation Greif was then put under command of Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Kommandounternehmen Trojanischer Sieg - suicide bombing of Boston harbor under Unternehmen Trojanischer Sieg
in November 1944 Skorzeny got inform personally by Heinrich Himmler about Operation Trojan Victory
and plans for Kriegsmarine to pull a V2 behind a Submarine to New Orleans and fire the V2 with Nervegas warhead on City.
Skorzeny realizing that this project would be a total disaster, proposed Himmler a alternative: SS commando let by him commenting a suicide attack on US target !
this impress Himmler that he take him to personal briefing of Adolph Hitler a the Berghof on November 13, 1944.
Hitler deeply moved by will of Otto Skorzeny to die for Third Reich, the Führer canceled Operation Life vest and order Commando operation trojan victory
This let to Admiral Karl Donitz to commit suicide on november 28, who try to delay his part of operation trojan victory, as the SS take it over..
The Submarines type IX used for Operation Life vest were now modified fast for there new task..
On november 21, Skorzeny got swedish shipping schedule and choice the merchant ship Arctic Dröm (Arctic Dream) leaving Stockholm harbor on december 2.
November 23 a group of four SS special agents were send to Stockholm, they speak swedish and could handle a merchant ship, there order become crew of Arctic Dröm.
around the November 27 the agents kill the radio technician Peterson* and beat up the ship mechanic Erkison* in a stage barroom fight, so they can replace them on Arctic Dröm.
on december 2 the two subs U-2504 and U-2511 left Wilhelmshafen harbor to intercept the Arctic Dröm leafing stockholm.
Six day later the subs reach the Arctic Dröm, while the two SS special agents take over the ship during action chief radio operator Olaf Svanström* is killed, while second officer Peter Ljungberg* is wounded.
After Takeover the cargo of U-2511 were loaded into the cargo hold of the Arctic Dröm
what happen of most of cargo of the Arctic Dröm and body of Olaf Svanström* is unclear there were not found during examination in Boston Harbor,
there were also not on board of U-2511, it's certain they were simply trow overboard like trash.
the 22 men crew of the Arctic Dröm were carried off on board of U-2511 as guest of the Third Reich, later as POW of SS from january 2, 1945.
While the U-2504 will scout and attack any wrong ship who cross them, while the merchant ship is operated under 23 men of SS.
What happen on the Arctic Dröm for next six days are pure speculation, because the radio silence and nearly no contact between the ship and U-2504.
one US Navy and one RAF Patrol Aircraft flew over the Arctic Dröm, notice nothing wrong with ship or the U-2504, hiding under the merchant ship!
Then on December 15 the U-2504 had to left the Arctic Dröm behind and return to the Third Reich.
Finally on december 17 the Arctic Dröm with Otto Skorzeny at the helm, enter Boston Harbor without stopping, crashing into cargo ship terminal, then the Sarin nerve gas grenades detonate.
Death
He died of doses of potassium cyanid during in the last minutes of commando operation Trojan victory.
Consequence of Commando operation trojan victory:
It still allot debate about Skorzeny death and it's value for WW2
while Historians like Guido Knopp consider that commando operation Trojan victory was a absurd waste of humans life for No results.
others point out that the gas attack provoke a lot Panic in USA, what in the end let to Operation Carthage West and Sweden declaration of War to the Third Reich.
also let Boston attack to the 1946 Patriot Act in USA.
Otto Skorzeny portrait in fiction (selection)
Harry Turtedove: Walhalla, we come !
a Alternate History Novel were Skorzeny drive the Arctic Dröm loaded with Nazi Atomic Bomb to Washington D.C.
Pier Paulo Pasolini: Arttic Sogno
His last Movie about the last 6 days on board of the Arctic Dröm, the movie made a major scandal by portraying Skorzeny and his men as a Homosexual sadistic hedonists.
Stanley Kubrik. The Aryan
Autobiographic Movie about the live and Death of Otto Skorzeny
notes:
Catenet became almost the Name for the Internet
Wiki-knowledge is alternate name for Wikipedia.
Date: Today
Location: Worldwide in the Catenet
Time: Now
From Wiki-knowledge page on Catenet.
Otto Skorzeny bio.
Otto Skorzeny (*12 june 1908 in Vienna - †16 december 1944 in Boston)
was an SS-Obersturmbannfüher in the German Waffen-SS during WW2
As Field Commander he carry out several distinguished operation
most notorious became Skorzeny with suicide bombing of Boston harbor in 1944.
Early years
Otto Skorzeny was born in Vienna, in a middle class family with polish roots.
The Skorzeny family has long tradition of Military service
During his teens he suffer under living condition of Great Depression succumb Austria
In his time as a University student, he became a noted Fencer in German National Burschenschaft.
with thirteen personal fence duels, during the tenth duel he received a dramatic dueling scare on his Cheek
(not like the Nazi Propaganda and other claims during combat in Waffen-SS)
1931 Skorzeny join the austrian NSDAP, as Member of Sturm Abteilung (SA).
during the Anschluss of Austria by Third Reich, He saved Austrian President Wihel Miklas from being lynched by SA.
Word War Two
Skorzeny work as civil engineer, try to volunteers for service in the Luftwaffe, but was refuse because to tall with 6 ft 3/6 in (1.92 meters)
So he join Waffen-SS, the bodyguard regiment "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler" as Officer
Begin of WW2, he served with the 2nd SS Panzer Division "Das Reich" and subsequently fought in several battles on east front.
During Battle of Moscow he had the Order to capture the sluices of the Moscow-Volga Canal and floot the City by opening them.
but the mission was canceled as Wehrmacht fails to capture the Soviet Capital.
December 1942 he was awarded the Iron Cross for bravery under Fire while he was hospitalized in Vienna, he was given a staff role in Berlin.
Under this assignment he could red all the literature on commando warfare, his ideas on unconventional commando warfare were offers to the high command.
The proposal is to development of Units specialized in unconventional warfare, like partsan-like fighting deep behind enemy lines, fighting in enemy uniform, commit sabotage attacks.
So the SS charged Skorzeny with commend of the Waffen-SS Sonderverband z.d.V. Friedenthal , were he train the commend in sabotage, espionage and paramilitary means
Opération Francois
begin Summer 1943 the Sonderverband z.d.V. Friedenthal send a group paratrooper into Iran,
To make contact with the dissident tribes and encourage them to sabotage allies supplies lines to USSR over Trans-Iranian Railway.
but the Operation was a failure, because the tribes was highly suspect in there commitment.
Unternehmen Eiche - Rescue of italian dictator Benito Mussolini
in July 1943 Hitler personally select Otto Skorzeny together with six special agents from Luftwaffe and Wehrmacht, to lead the Operation Oak: the liberation of dictator Benito Mussolini!
After deathly Cat and Mouse game with Italians, on September 12 the Commando rescue Benito Mussolini from Campo Imperatore Hotel on top of Gran Sasso mountain.
Skorzeny escorted Mussolini to Berlin and was promoted to Sturmbannführer of SS and Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross personal given by Adolph Hitler.
Unternehmen Weitsprung - planned attempt to assassinate of Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt during 1943 Tehran Conference.
Is unclear if this Operation was real or not, because the first Information is from Soviet intelligence agency NKVD.
they claim there were commando under Otto Skorzeny for assassinate of "big three" of Allies forces.
Although was a order by Hitler about a "Operation long Jump" against the 1943 Tehran Conference, but is unclear what action had to be taken.
some Historians like Michel Van have the theory that this actually was a rumor by Skorzeny to scaring off the Allies.
Unternehmen Rösselsprung - An attempt to Capture Josip Broz Tito
Spring 1944 the "Sonderverband z.d.V. Friedenthal" re-designated "SS-Jäger Bataillon 502"
Original Skorzeny had to be in command, but during planning he discover that to carelessness of German agents in Croatia, that Aillies and marchall Tito was warned
The operation was put into action and end in total disaster, the Paratroop landed in ambush of Tito escort Battalion
on 20 July 1944
Skorzeny helped to crush the rebellion, stay 36 hours in charge of Wehrmacht's central command center
and personally arrested Claus von Stauffenberg and other main conspirators at there HQ in Bendlerblock.
Unternehmen EisenFaust - Kidnapping of Mikros Hort Jr.
October Hitler gave order to Skorzeny to go Hungary to kidnapped Admiral Horthy's son Miklos Horthy, Jr.
So to force the admiral to resign as head of state. and succesful to install a pro Nazi government in Hungary.
Himmler promote Skorzeny to Obersturmbennführer.
Unternehmen Greif - a False flag Operation during Unternehmen Rächt am Rhein (only preparation)
for upcoming counter-offensive Watch on the Rhine, plan Skorzeny to infiltrating the allied frontier with english speaking SS-troops dressed and equipped as US Troops.
They had to cause disorder and confusion behind the Allies lines including spread a rumor that Skorzeny is out to kill General Eisenhower.
but Skorzeny was called of this operation in November 1944 by Heinrich Himmler for a special briefing on Unternehmen Trojanischer Sieg,
Operation Greif was then put under command of Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Kommandounternehmen Trojanischer Sieg - suicide bombing of Boston harbor under Unternehmen Trojanischer Sieg
in November 1944 Skorzeny got inform personally by Heinrich Himmler about Operation Trojan Victory
and plans for Kriegsmarine to pull a V2 behind a Submarine to New Orleans and fire the V2 with Nervegas warhead on City.
Skorzeny realizing that this project would be a total disaster, proposed Himmler a alternative: SS commando let by him commenting a suicide attack on US target !
this impress Himmler that he take him to personal briefing of Adolph Hitler a the Berghof on November 13, 1944.
Hitler deeply moved by will of Otto Skorzeny to die for Third Reich, the Führer canceled Operation Life vest and order Commando operation trojan victory
This let to Admiral Karl Donitz to commit suicide on november 28, who try to delay his part of operation trojan victory, as the SS take it over..
The Submarines type IX used for Operation Life vest were now modified fast for there new task..
On november 21, Skorzeny got swedish shipping schedule and choice the merchant ship Arctic Dröm (Arctic Dream) leaving Stockholm harbor on december 2.
November 23 a group of four SS special agents were send to Stockholm, they speak swedish and could handle a merchant ship, there order become crew of Arctic Dröm.
around the November 27 the agents kill the radio technician Peterson* and beat up the ship mechanic Erkison* in a stage barroom fight, so they can replace them on Arctic Dröm.
on december 2 the two subs U-2504 and U-2511 left Wilhelmshafen harbor to intercept the Arctic Dröm leafing stockholm.
Six day later the subs reach the Arctic Dröm, while the two SS special agents take over the ship during action chief radio operator Olaf Svanström* is killed, while second officer Peter Ljungberg* is wounded.
After Takeover the cargo of U-2511 were loaded into the cargo hold of the Arctic Dröm
what happen of most of cargo of the Arctic Dröm and body of Olaf Svanström* is unclear there were not found during examination in Boston Harbor,
there were also not on board of U-2511, it's certain they were simply trow overboard like trash.
the 22 men crew of the Arctic Dröm were carried off on board of U-2511 as guest of the Third Reich, later as POW of SS from january 2, 1945.
While the U-2504 will scout and attack any wrong ship who cross them, while the merchant ship is operated under 23 men of SS.
What happen on the Arctic Dröm for next six days are pure speculation, because the radio silence and nearly no contact between the ship and U-2504.
one US Navy and one RAF Patrol Aircraft flew over the Arctic Dröm, notice nothing wrong with ship or the U-2504, hiding under the merchant ship!
Then on December 15 the U-2504 had to left the Arctic Dröm behind and return to the Third Reich.
Finally on december 17 the Arctic Dröm with Otto Skorzeny at the helm, enter Boston Harbor without stopping, crashing into cargo ship terminal, then the Sarin nerve gas grenades detonate.
Death
He died of doses of potassium cyanid during in the last minutes of commando operation Trojan victory.
Consequence of Commando operation trojan victory:
It still allot debate about Skorzeny death and it's value for WW2
while Historians like Guido Knopp consider that commando operation Trojan victory was a absurd waste of humans life for No results.
others point out that the gas attack provoke a lot Panic in USA, what in the end let to Operation Carthage West and Sweden declaration of War to the Third Reich.
also let Boston attack to the 1946 Patriot Act in USA.
Otto Skorzeny portrait in fiction (selection)
Harry Turtedove: Walhalla, we come !
a Alternate History Novel were Skorzeny drive the Arctic Dröm loaded with Nazi Atomic Bomb to Washington D.C.
Pier Paulo Pasolini: Arttic Sogno
His last Movie about the last 6 days on board of the Arctic Dröm, the movie made a major scandal by portraying Skorzeny and his men as a Homosexual sadistic hedonists.
Stanley Kubrik. The Aryan
Autobiographic Movie about the live and Death of Otto Skorzeny
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So you posted a picture of a real POW being moved by the two Japanese soldiers, and labeled it Lt. Anderson?
So then Trekchu was imagining that the man in the picture probably did not end up well.
1946 Patriot Act? Oh dear.
Re: the update, excellent. Pity it took 200,000 dead civilians to destroy the War Cabinet, but it looks like the Pacific War will be ending shortly.
Re: the update, excellent. Pity it took 200,000 dead civilians to destroy the War Cabinet, but it looks like the Pacific War will be ending shortly.
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