In one of WWII”s most daring raids, Captain Otto Skorzeny, leader of Germany”s Special Forces, led a glider assault against a remote mountaintop hotel outside Rome on September 12, 1943. His mission–rescue the imprisoned Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. A surprise attack overwhelmed the guards, and after a precarious flight off the mountain, Il Duce reunited with his Axis partner, Adolf Hitler. This and other Skorzeny exploits led to him being called “the most dangerous man in Europe”.