Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Otto Skorzeny being Interrogated after Surrender

SS-Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny being interrogated by U.S. officers on May 1945. Skorzeny was interned for two years before being tried as a war criminal at the Dachau trials in 1947 for allegedly violating the laws of war during the Battle of the Bulge. He and nine officers of the Panzerbrigade 150 were tried before a U.S. Military Tribunal in Dachau on 18 August 1947. They faced charges of improper use of U.S. military insignia, theft of U.S. uniforms, and theft of Red Cross parcels from U.S. POWs. The trial lasted over three weeks. The charge of stealing Red Cross parcels was dropped for lack of evidence. Skorzeny admitted to ordering his men to wear U.S. uniforms; but his defence argued that, as long as enemy uniforms were discarded before combat started, such a tactic was a legitimate ruse de guerre. On the final day of the trial, 9 September, F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas, a former British SOE agent, testified that he and his operatives wore German uniforms behind enemy lines; the Tribunal acquitted the ten defendants. The Tribunal drew a distinction between using enemy uniforms during combat and for other purposes including deception and were unable to prove that Skorzeny had given any orders to actually fight in U.S. uniforms.


Source :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Skorzeny
http://www.historicalwarmilitariaforum.com/search/?q=skorzeny&type=forums_topic

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  1. Referente al uso indebido y hasta CRIMINAL de uniformes del ejercito enemigo durante la WWII resulta muy llamativo que poquísimos o casi ningún historiador coja el fierro caliente de los "Grupos de Incendiarios" del KONSOMOL y de los "Grupos de aniquilamiento" del NKVD utilizados por los soviéticos para disfrazados de unidades alemanas, perpetrar masacres y destrucciones totales de diversos pueblos y aldeas ubicadas en la retaguardia acusadas de traidoras por colaboracionismo o de poca adherencia al régimen stalinista. Esta política infiltrativa y de guerra psicológica ejecutada con el aval oficial soviético (Stalin, Beria, Krushev, etc. etc. etc.) HA SIDO CONVENIENTEMENTE OCULTADA para engordar con sus víctimas las de los famosos Einsaztgruppen...

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