In a coup d'état in Italy in 1943, the fascist dictator Mussolini was trapped, and Italy was ready to break away from the Axis powers and join the Allies. The history of humanity's World War II may have been accelerated to an end, but it was stopped by an unknown special forces force, plus a legendary figure, with a magical rescue operation.
On July 25, 1943, Hitler secretly summoned 6 people, and Hitler asked them a question: "What do you think of Italy?" Everyone replied: "Italy is our solid ally." "Except for one named Otto. Skolzner' man, he replied, "I am Austrian. ”
Otto. Skolzner, one of the leaders of Hitler's newly formed special forces at the time, had a title called "The First Evil Man in Europe". Otto's answer can be said to be very clever. Because Italy and Austria became enemies after the First World War, Otto showed Hitler that he did not have a good feeling for Italy and would never defect after going to Italy, thus showing his loyalty to Hitler.
Hitler was satisfied with Otto's answer and left Otto alone. And give him a task: go to Italy to rescue the trapped Mussolini, and the air force will fully cooperate with you.
Mussolini's place of detention was constantly changing, and Otto took a hard time to learn that Mussolini may have been locked up in the Grand Sasso Mountains, a hotel at an altitude of 1800 meters. Italy has taken a lot of pain to keep Mussolini here, this hotel is facing a cliff, there is no road around it, you can only take the cable car up and down the mountain, usually only mountaineers will come here.
After arriving near The Great Sasso, in order to paraphrase, Otto's men deliberately bet the locals: "Mussolini must be dead." Not to be outdone, the locals said, "Then you've lost, I saw him on the mountain not long ago!" So they determined that Mussolini was indeed on the mountain.
Immediately after that, it was time to reconnoiter the terrain. As a result, at this juncture, the camera actually malfunctioned. Otto could only sit on the plane, personally went into battle, leaned out of the plane and took pictures manually, and almost froze to death.
After reconnoitring the terrain, Otto found that the difficulty coefficient of this task was a bit high. All the paths up the hill were blocked, and there was no turf around the villa for planes to land; paratroopers parachuted in, the wind at the top of the hill was too strong to blow people far away.
In the end, Otto made a bold decision to glide up the mountain with a glider, but the risk of this plan was very high, and there was a high risk of death if he was not careful. The team members all expressed their fear of death and strongly supported the action.
At 5 a.m. on September 12, 1943, Otto and his commando team assembled at the airport and prepared to leave. But who knew that the glider was actually late. Wait until noon.
Before setting off, Otto and his team were stranded on the mountain to prevent the failure of the operation, so they brought a lot of food, including various cans, chocolates, wine, sausages, and so on. While waiting for the plane to arrive, they had an on-site picnic.
The glider finally arrived around 11 o'clock. Otto boarded the glider with the commandos and soon realized that things were not good. The glider cabin is narrow and very bumpy. Because the team members ate too much, they were a little sick, and their stomachs began to turn over, and some people even threw up.
Otto quickly drew out his knife and cut a few cuts in the canvas fuselage, and the cool air instantly blew into the cabin, making the team members sober for a few minutes.
After the glider reached the rescue site, Otto ordered the glider to decouple from the plane, and the glider crashed into a rock-strewn road behind the villa.
Otto, after getting out of the glider in a daze, found that they were already in front of the villa. The Italians stationed in the villa seemed even more confused than Otto, and they stared at the people who fell from the sky with stunned eyes.
Otto and his party quickly entered the interior of the villa with little effort, and it took them almost 4 minutes to take control of the entire hotel.
They soon found Mussolini. At this time, a photographer accompanying the army appeared, and Mussolini, who had always had a sense of lens, immediately grabbed Otto and said to the photographer: I know that my friend Hitler will not abandon me.
At the end of the day, Otto and Mussolini huddled together to rescue the small plane. The small plane, which was not very spacey, was forced into two large 90-kilogram men and almost crashed into the valley after taking off. Fortunately, the pilot was very skilled, and he had to pull up the small plane.
Known as Operation Oak, the magic was because Otto and his team had worked so hard and ready to die, only to not even get a chance to shoot; and it slowed down the end of World War II.