Large-Scale German Kommando Raids

eltf177

Jason's "Dieppe-Style Sealion" thread is brilliant (if you haven't read it do so now). This makes _far_ more sense than a major invasion which will fail. I'd like to take it one step further...

Suppose Skorzny comes to Hitler's attention in 1940. Fed up with British Commando raids (in OTL he ordered their immediate execution if caught), he instead gives Skorzny the clout to respond in kind. Skorzny assembles a large, crack unit.

The question is, what will Skorzny do with it? I think he could pull off a raid on UK soil but losses would be heavy (something Hitler doesn't like). So what now? Maybe an earlier raid to take out or capture Tito in Yugoslavia? Try and capture/kill Stalin? Try and get the Big Three in Terhan in 1943? Maybe some sort of raid to force Franco to throw in with the Axis or keep Mussolini in power? Have subs try and inflitrate sabotage units into the US?

The biggest problem I see is, unlike the British Commandos (who have the entire European coast from Norway to France to attack and all sorts of targets), the Germans don't have much beyond the UK or points to the East.

Still, I'd like to hear your thoughts on this...
 

Markus

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The man actually did much less in real life than sorry ass AH novel make one believe. The liberaton of Mussolini was mainly a paratrooper operation, the capture of Tito wasn´t, but that didn´t work. Sending Germans in US uniforms behind allied lines during the Battle of the Bulge no doubt made the Americans paranoid, but that hardly counts as an achievement.
 

Bill Garvin

eltf177 said:
Maybe an earlier raid to take out or capture Tito in Yugoslavia? Try and capture/kill Stalin? Try and get the Big Three in Terhan in 1943? Maybe some sort of raid to force Franco to throw in with the Axis or keep Mussolini in power? Have subs try and inflitrate sabotage units into the US?
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There was actually a German plan to get the Big three in Teheran. its descrived in Erickson's The Road To Berlin. Skorzeny was approached to execute it but he read the scheme and passed. Good decision on his part, when the scheme was tried, it was a fiasco. Likewise with trying to insert sabotage teams into the US. Tried, failed.

A nice target might be the Isle of Wight, go ashore there and do some evil things.
 
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