German scientist Heinz Krug vanished on September 11, 1962. Krug was at his office, and then he was gone without ever returning home.
The only other detail known to the Munich police was that Krug often went to Cairo. Like dozens of other Nazi rocket scientists, he had been hired by Egypt to help them develop advanced weapons.
The Israeli newspaper HaBoker (now defunct) claimed that the Egyptians had kidnapped Heinz to keep him from doing business with Israel. The leak was an attempt by the Israeli government to keep investigators from looking too closely at the case. Although the 49-year-old scientist wasnt going to be found either way.
Based on interviews with former Mossad officers and with Israelis who have access to Mossad archives from the last 50 years, it is now known that Krug was murdered by Israel to intimidate German scientists working for Egypt.
More amazing is the discovery of who committed the murder. Otto Skorzeny turned out to be one of the Mossads most valuable agents. He was also a former lieutenant colonel in the Nazis Waffen-SS, one of Hitlers favorite among their commando leaders. The Führer gave Skorzeny the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross, the most prestigious medal in the German army, for leading the operation that saved Benito Mussolini from his captors in 1943.
By 1962, Skorzeny was working for the Mossad, which translates from Hebrew to The Institute for Intelligence and Special Missions.
You say that like anyone knew wtf that guy was.
Oh yeah like who was this nobody.
Is he the one dressed as a spy in that picture? Shouldn't that been a give away?Oh yeah like who was this nobody.
Is he the one dressed as a spy in that picture? Shouldn't that been a give away?
The character of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, as presented by Donald Pleasence in the movie ‘You Only Live Twice‘, has gone on to become one of the most iconic cinematic super-villains of the half century. Some may recognize him as the character who was parodied in the Austin Powers trilogy as Dr. Evil.
But have you ever wondered if the original Blofeld character was based on a real person?
Well.. as I found out over the years, he is- but not in the way you think. Moreover, the life-story of the guy that character was based on is even more interesting than the literary super-villain. However, I also realized something else.. The author of the James Bond series, Ian Fleming, took great care to obscure and hide the connection between his literary super-villain character and the guy he was almost certainly based on. As readers will see, Fleming had a very good reason to hide the true identity of the guy who served as the inspiration for one of his most iconic literary characters.
In the previous paragraph, I mentioned that it took me some time to figure out the identity of the person who inspired the Blofeld character. Here is why.. My first exposure to this character came from watching James Bond movies, especially as played by Donald Pleasence. To put it another way, I (like most of you) saw his character on screen before reading about it in a book. The best clues to to true identity of Blofeld are found in some of the first James Bond novels. Having said that, his first cinematic representation of Blofeld (and Dr. Evil) holds one important clue to his true identity.
Thats Mussolini, Skorzeny is the tall guy next to him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Sasso_raid
there are 2 tall guys next to him. circling the person in red would help everyone here including myselfThats Mussolini, Skorzeny is the tall guy next to him.
Still don't know who the fuck you are talking about. How about you draw a circle around his face?
there are 2 tall guys next to him. circling the person in red would help everyone here including myself
if he doesn't have a tank named after him he's a fucking nobody.
someone not important enough to recognize.so who is this dude?
so who is this dude?
Apparently, a Nazi who killed someone. Which is sort of like being a baseball player who plays baseball.
I'm going to research some obscure shit that no one else knows or cares about so everyone thinks I'm S.M.R.T.
OP, I think I can speak for everyone here--we get that you know who this guy is. This type of history is clearly either a big hobby of yours, some disertation that you did, or something similar. Obviously, you are a bit of an expert on the matter.
What you fail to understand is that with someone like you, who knows all of the details of this subject matter, including many of the prominent people involved--that knowledge does not translate to most other people, even if most other people are tangentially aware or even somewhat knowledgeable on the subject.
I would be astonished if more than 1% of the people in the world today recognize this name. And let's make that 1% of the people in the western world that have a decent command of WW2/Nazi history.