Prof. Greg Jackson
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And now, the Italians keep their former fascist leader on the move as an extra precaution.
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But the watchful Nazis are on a manhunt for Benito.
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They track his whereabouts to a remote and distant imprisonment, high up among the peaks of the Gran Sasso d'Italia, at the Hotel Campo Imperatore.
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And on the afternoon of September 12th, as General Mark Clark's army is gasping for life on the beaches of Salerno, 12 DFS-230 gliders, essentially small engine-less airplanes that, once launched, can silently approach their target and land with incredible precision on difficult terrain, carry a small force of Nazi paratroopers and SS men to this secluded mountain.
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They surround the hotel.
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Then, after bluffing the 200-strong Italian guard into standing down, SS officer Otto Skorzeny greets Benito, allegedly saying, With that, the Germans take Il Duce to a tiny monoplane and whisk him off to safety.
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Or is it captivity?
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Well, a rescue, a kidnapping, whatever you want to call it.
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the Italians have lost their fascist former leader to their fascist former ally.
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Wow.
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Sounds like a scene right out of a James Bond movie.
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That's partially true.
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It's also partially propaganda.
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Otto Skorzeny, the SS officer whose comment above felt like a movie script, most likely wasn't the leader he and the fiendishly clever Dr. Joseph Goebbels make him out to be on this mountain raid.
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Historians will later conclude Luftwaffe Major Otto Harald Mors was probably the brains behind this operation.
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In fact, propaganda won't only lead us to question the myth built around the Nazis absconding, il Duce, but largely explains why Adolf Hitler ordered the maneuver.
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See, inept as Benito and his regime have proven militarily, the Nazi regime nonetheless needs to take the wind out of the Allies' recent armistice sails.
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And nothing says doldrums like propping up their fallen ally anew.
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Thus, by September 23rd, Benito is in Italy's German-occupied north, in Salo, puppet-leading the Italian Social Republic, or the Salo Republic.
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That's right, we have two Italys now, a fascist-rump government in the north and an armistice-abiding kingdom in the south.
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