As the leader of Germany's Special Forces, Captain Otto Skorzeny led many risky operations and was a constant thorn in the side of the Allied commanders. The video details his most famous mission: on September 12th, 1943, Skorzeny led a glider assault against a remote mountaintop hotel near Rome where the deposed dictator of Italy, Benito Mussolini, was held.

Originally broadcast as a segment of the television series Greatest Raids on the History Channel.