Otto Skorzeny is the founder of the Nazi commandos. First of all, it is very difficult to find, both in real life and in fiction, more incredible adventures than those that befell this SS officer - a personality who, fortunately for his allies, the British and Americans, was never able to fully realize himself. The liberation of Mussolini and the occupation of the Castle on the Hill in Budapest would have done honor to the heroes of Dumas and the gangster novels of the thirties. A rare action movie contains as many adventures as Skorzeny experienced while carrying out secret missions in different European countries. Secondly, it is rare that a person who did not hold any significant positions in the hierarchy of government power, in the army, played such a role in the history of the Second World War. Skorzeny, one of hundreds of thousands of ordinary German officers, for some time fettered the actions of an entire army, the Allies! And at the same time, Skorzeny is not a hero “in its purest form” - he is a real SS man, fanatically loyal to the Fuhrer and the Reich.