# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-09-01T02:06:07.858Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Otto Johann Anton Skorzeny was born 12 June 1908 in Austria and became an SS-Obersturmbannführer in the Waffen-SS. The Gran Sasso raid made him: a glider assault that pulled Benito Mussolini from captivity and turned Skorzeny into the Reich's showcase operator. He ran the mission to topple Hungarian Regent Miklós Horthy and led Operation Greif, sending German soldiers through Allied lines in enemy uniform. That last earned him a 1947 trial at Dachau for violating the Hague Convention; he was acquitted. A year later he walked out of an internment camp and spent months moving through Bavaria, Salzburg, and Paris before landing in Franco's Spain. By 1953 he was advising Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, and allegedly Juan Perón in Argentina. Lung cancer killed him in Madrid on 5 July 1975, age 67.