1952-06-14 — Page 11

THE TOUGHEST MAN ALIVE

THE CHINA MAIL,

SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1952.

Concluding today the one-war-ahead philosophy of Scarface OTTO SKORZENY— the man who kidnapped Mussolini—told in a series of interviews with Charles Foley,"

I did not plot to kill Eisenhower

T is not true that I tried to kiff General Eisenhower. It is not true that I ever attempted to kidnap, malm, or in any way inconvenience America's Lfavourite son.

Naturally I should have done so if I had received the order, but the order did not coma. It was Colonel Rosenfeldt, chief. prosecutor at Nuremberg, who brought up this charge against me. The colonel was dead sure of it.

Aftor all, Rosenfeldt himself had the duty, in the last few weeks of the war, of keeping watch, with troops and

tanks within

call, on the Cafe de la Paix in Paris. I was expected to turn up there with a gang of desperadoes-all of us dressed in American uniforms.

Every American military policeman in Europe carried picture of "Skorzeny, the most dangerous man in Europe." Several times I was positively "identified."

Even after I surrendered voluntarily after the war- i like to do things volun- tarily when I can-I was put into solitary confine- iment under heavy guard. When I had an operation I woke up with a tommy- gunner beside my bed.

Now the true story is far more interesting than just another Skorzeny kid- napping, because what really luppened laid the basis for the most treacherous sur- prises that the future has in store.

It began when I Was called to Fuehrer's Head- quarters to receive the Ger- man Cross in Gold for my Hungarian coup.

Mission

HITLER took me aside. He enid: "ไ have chosen you to play a lead- ing part in an offensive that will decide the destiny of Europe."

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The British and American armies had reached the German frontier; if by shattering blow Hitler could force them to make pesce then we could turn with all our strength on Russia.

The fantastic

100 men can

there had been time and material to carry it through. Even though our efforts were marred by outrageous blunders in the High Com mand we scored an astonish-

ing success happened.

But booty

chaos

cause

was not

SCARFACE with

SCHACHT

THE OTTO SKORZENY of today (cente ture was "snatched" through a tre) lunches in a Spanish restaurant window Schacht was on with Dr Hjalmar Schacht fright) and way home from adscue"" his fair-haired wife. Schacht, famous as mission to Indonesia.

Hitler's economic wizard, was Like Schacht, Otto SkorzENY able to secure his acquittal as has been pursued by tumours,

war criminal, and began

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new career de free-lance fug- Charles Foley found him inh another gler for other countites finan- Spain where, under

difere came. In from name, he has started a new Egypt, Perila, When this pic- 'Wife," ".

ces.

broadcast that 200 of us had bech arrested.

GOTNO

I have; mot

of these victims dinem. Ona American officer was spotted in a pair of German boots-he spent week under forco grilling.

Two other officers on a visit to the front praised the canned food-this was considered Bu unnatural that they were drag; red from their chairg and thrown into gaol.

Imagine, further, what could be done by unhurried pleaming with half a dozen suche brigades which would appear behind the enemy's lines in his own uni- form.

And it need not siợp at that. Smaller units could bring in. convoys of supposed prisoners in their own transport -- 5000 you would have something like a civil war.

Aircraft

·

bombard would their own divisions. In an

panic, General Elsenhower himself atmosphere of

units

was forced by Security to move would attack their comrades. into a house guarded by cor- dona of military police.

on

When he revoltei at his scclusion, Security Insisted sending out on tour an Elsen- hewer "double to mead the Skorzeny assassins,

Even Fleld-Marshal Mant gomery was suspect; a report said, we had dressed up some one to impersonate him. Angry British generals driving through Belgturn were stopped for seru- tiny.

An imagined rendezvous for our column at the Cafe de la Palx added a popular flourish.

Our

struck Western armies

they with everything

had. The Americans reeled back

A fantastic upset; yet all of but Hitler had underestimated

It caused by 100 or so half So only four or five of our trained, ill-equipped men. them; they did not break. we got. In the end amounted to

"American"

got through. Imagine the turmoil If, given a groups two Sherman tanks, ten When you stop to think

had that real break-through, Wo tish armoured cars which broke

16 these groups consisted of only hurled into the chaos of retreat down On arrival,

ex- the full brigade of 3,300 men. American trucks, and 30 Jeeps, 10 to 20 men each, their

periences add up to an object lesson in the unorthodox.

casily come by in those days. All

Transport Look what

First, the volunteers rived. Only one in

ar- ten

I decided I would have to

with

form a brigade of deaf-mutes German Fords, painted green, safe route." who

past would rush

panzers:

at a

Rounded up

One group settled in to oc- cupy a crossroads town. While WHAT became of the untheir leader was strolling about WHA

dreds of Jeeps captured collecting Information An by the German Army? The American armoured. regiment could make himself under love-struck new owners simply drove up. "All roads

to the stood in English:

refused to give them up.

front are cut off," he told them There is only one excitedly, We had to mako up

any and 12 camouflaged questioners, with teeth clench with great luck they might be ed, presumably as an effect of mistaken for Shermans shell-shock.

mile or so in the dusk. Lastly the uniforms. sigament of U.S. Army coals arrived -- hopeless, went to troops opposito were in

to jackets. important mission of your pick up G.I. linge,

Others we We wired for feld-Jackets life. You must raise and trained

things as such equip an armoured brigade American swearwords, and how and got them, but they

prisoner-of-war out Alek elgaretter

of covered cellophane-wrapped packets.

Hitler added gravely:

Hardest

"Skorzeny, this is the most Serican prison camps

COME of the men

with full American uniform to and equipment.

ta

with

the

fold-

days.

THE Americans thankfully A con- followed his directions. over. They were lost for two whole A second group went bang into hundreds of Amorleans who were dug in for a siego. cled," yelled our leader in top- "Scrum, fellows, you're encir- sergeant uniform. They seram-

were

med.

our

triangles,

For myself, the brigade

to Racing from one point "After our armies have The hardest task was to commander, they could not find

men blew another, I had down German Army uniform big enough. broken through, you will fan break

moved up ammunition dumps,

ribbons out behind the enemy lines, discipline and teach them to re- to wear a khaki sweater,

sign-boards, ted red

indi the across strategic routes-to Only three of us knew seize the Meuse bridges and lax.

code cote that they were mined. throw the Allies into con-

American secret of the operation: Then equipment,

Within a few days "Skorzeny fusion."

booty was supposed to provide name Griffin. But the German

30 word tanks,

to gangs were seen everywhere. all we needcd-20

"greifen" means

the Crowds of genuine Americans this spar three bat gelp": from Cars, armoured

been rounded up: allons of Jeeps, anti-aircraft rumour that, we were to selze must havo

Ailled headquarters.

because the US radio at Calale batteries.

A startling strategy that, and one which would have had untold consequences if

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FANTASTIC? No doubt staff officers besleging Troy Orst were scorful when the Commando crept into the belly of a wooden herse to take the city from within,

But that still more impreg- nuble fortress the military mind has had to yield to in- spiration in the past.

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And Mr Hogg can think about. Toronto, June 10.-

plans for Uranium ~~ City, | IN the mosquito-infested abo

400 miles north of Prince Albert muskeg of Northern hitherto the province's northern- Saskatchewan, where only most city, as he waits for the Indians and fur trappers spring thaw that will open lived previously, 40-year-old the area this month. Charles Andrew. LuVerne He chose the site near Beaver Hogg, B.Sc.. begins next Lodge Lake, 10 miles from the week to build a secret city ghost town of Goldfields, on

shore the north

of Lake the become may that

Athasbaska, Already an airport atomic centre of the west has been made outside the sile ern hemisphere.

for the city that will be bulls largely by airlift.

Mr Hogg is the Deputy Minis- ter of Resources for Saskatche- wan, and the city-to-be in the one he has named in advance Uranium

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This summer, the Canadian is to build a mill bo the headquarters for the government mining of the large deposits of that will handle 800 tons a day, alom-bomb. raw materiad dis and can be expanded to handle

around. Beaver Lodge 2,000 tons dally. Lake.

Mr Hogg is ready to install Experts say that the deposits waterworks,

sewars and elec exceed by for those found at tricity. Ho

determined Great Bear Lake, Canada's other that the

city,

expected to uranium centre, and that they house 5,000 in five years, wil will make Canada steure in her

not bo composed of mere scrond place only to the Belgian shanties and saloons, like many

Congo in uranium production.

other norther mining towns, There will be strict standards for the houses, trees will line the streets, and space is being

'The exact amounts may never allotted for parks.

be known, because uromium

Ho chose the kad on the production in Canada is a rush banks of the Fredetto Hiver and hush government project, but it says: "It's as beautiful as any has leaked out that more

than

£3,000,000 was spent exploring beaches nearby."

summer resort, with fine sandy

the area last year; that much For, whatever may be the moro will be spent this year; uses of tammlun, Mr Hogg plans that Canada's output will be that is Canadian headquarters more than doubled not long will be a tidy, model town. after production begins next

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