Mussolini's Rescue Was a Nazi Sham
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- Framed by the Third Reich as one of the most perilous and daring missions of WWII, the freeing of Il Duce was nothing more than a friendly photo op.
From: SECRETS OF THE THIRD REICH: Deadly Missions
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Allied propaganda, even 82 years later. Wow.
Where is the other side of the story?
@@alexgorron6470 not allowed
Historians? Story is well known in Italy, the police guards and a carabinieri were partly sympathetic to him, some also reassured him about his safety swearing him alliance, plus Skorzeny landed in the company of an italian Police Corps General (General Soleti): the general ordered his men to let the Duce go free without resisting (as reported by Mussolini's doctor, captain Zacharie, in his memoirs). And in the pics they are clearly proud and happy to be on camera. It was not a sham, simply a very daring operation that was resolved easily thanks to the uncertainity that reigned among the italians (whose officers and authorities were already starting to divide in two camps, one pro Ally the other pro Fascist, while giving often contradictory orders or no orders at all)
agreed
Sounds very Italian and completely believable.
What do you do with your dictator when he commands you to take him captive? Throw down your weapons and surrender!
Why cab't everyone simply admit that this was a unique, daring and successful rescue mission.
Because then it sounds pro Germany and wink, wink, we are not ready for that.
Because it wasn't.
@@danr1920 how so?
Maybe you should go beyond pre conceived notions and question things.
@@avibhau3852 Your advice is very tired.
I smell boiling jealousy from the channel's staff.
So this video is basically saying that they weren't as good as they were because the enemy put up no fight? The best victory is one where no shot is fired. The Italians didn't want to betray Mussolini, and the Germans could've easily encountered heavy resistance. This was a daring raid.
It ain't a victory to stage a fight with essentially yourself. Besides, they landed with gliders. How were the paratroopers EXTRACTED? The same way as Mussollini himself? It would take hundreds of Fi-156 flights...
@@VersusARCH They jumped from the gliders...
@Ricardo VS "its well know..." maybe on memes, not in real history
@@lojaman4345 These guys believe to know italian history from WW2 memes🤦🏻♂️. The history is learned from ... you know ... history books
@@Eckoolt They didn't jump from gliders they're landing with gliders. One of the glider was crashed during the operation.
How can it be a sham when it was so perfect that no shot was fired
Because the Italian General in charge of the area had ordered his people to stand down. You don't have to believe a single video. Just do your own research.
@@bdcochran01 There were the chance that Carabieneri would ignored General Soleti ordered as Italian are pretty much divided at that point.
This is completely false. I love how they discredit anything Germany accomplished.
@Jackson Vermillion you know who Mussolini is, correct?
@@ricardobautista-garcia8492 Of course he knows. Some people loved him and some people hated him. He had the right to say what goes in his country as do all countries.
HHstutz55 well said man!
I see youtube's censorship deleted some comments
@@yosemite735 he asked a question
Trying to undermine any german success
For 77 years
It's not shame because of no German bullet was easily fired to the weak Italian guards.
To fire thousands of bullets at will is easy ,and to hold with no shooting is difficult for a group soldiers.
*Up Next DDAY WAS A SHAM*
Skorzeny was well feared... He is one of the best & well respected commandos of all time...
As someone said here already - Skorzenny was no more than a tourist there and, it was of only Sudent's courtesy he ever found himself on one of the gliders. The true mastermind was major Otto-Harald Mors and, what is more impressive, he planned and carried out the whole operation within 24 hours after having received the order form general Student. On top of it, one also needs to remember that taking the hotel over was just part of the whole plan. The other one - equally crucial - was to capture the lower station of the cable car after... 300 km raid. If this failed, there would be a bloodshed over there.
Nooooooooo, you can't credit the Nahzis with anything positive.
Sounds like someone is denying history for silly theories.
COMING FROM THE SMITHSONIAN THAT'S ONE HECK OF AN ACCUSATION... SOMETHING ABOUT A KETTLE??
If you want you can still see il Duce's bedroom. The hotel is still open for everyone to stay
Talk about fake news! They forgot to mention that one of the gliders crashed killing everyone on board. And a few shots were fired. The rescue was not a sham
I mean it was though, their strategies were highly unorthodox and likely threw the guards well, off guard. They were also likely still sympathetic to Mussolini at the time and seeing they were facing the ss they likely figured it was a safer bet not to resist.
the SS officer who commanded the rescue was used by the Allies as an adviser, and even the Israeli defense force asked for his expertise.
you are mistaken. skorzeny went to Argentina, not Israel
@@eleanorcummings2019 Spain
@@eleanorcummings2019 yeah but he worked with the mosad just look it up
@@nielsgroothedde8038 try Argentina secret police. you know they have tin hats for people like you. good luck with your conspiracy theories.
Worked with the Arabs. Nasty human.
It was common knowledge that commando raids often do not result in prisoners on either side. Add to that the potential situation where Mussolini ends up dead before his rescuers get to him. It quickly became clear to the guards that they were outmatched by the raiding party. Of course they surrendered as soon as possible.
They surprised the guards, and the guards were not fanatic anti Mossolini types at that. To say this was a friendly photo op is revisionist history at it's best.
The Italian troops guarding him weren't idiots....there wasn't a desire to go out in a blaze of bullets
The whole reason a firefight didn't erupt was because the two hundred or so guards were ordered by an Italian General who flew in with Skorzney to stand down or be executed for treason against the Fascist Government, that and the Italian Government may have deliberately provided information to the SS just to get rid of Mussolini.
Special operations actions with odds like this almost never go as planned, usually suffering at least moderate casualties. Was it bold? Yes, it was, landing gliders in such terrain risked killing the entire assault force before accounting for the disparity in strength between the opposing forces.
The Italian Carabinieri guards outnumbered the assault force almost two to one, were heavily armed, and had the advantage of well emplaced defenses and might very well have slaughtered Skorzeny and his troops to a man had things gone differently.
Of course nobody in either the Video or the comments are going to tell you that, because this is one of the few special operations actions to not have shit hit the fan because they got *lucky*, simple as that.
Had thing gone differently Skorzeny would be a footnote of a dead man with an Italian bullet through his skull.
Or part of a German glider.
i agree
This rescue was definitely daring. The notion that the Italian guards should have killed Mussolini when the Nazis arrived is asinine. The German SS troopers were ruthless, and the Italians knew they were no match. Shame on the Smithsonian for pushing out this propaganda piece.
The fallacy sought to be presented by the Smithsonian is that the German rescuers had no idea the mission would end without bloodshed.
It was planned and executed, and the Italians wisely chose not to fight. Besides, maybe the hearts of the Italian guards were not in it because some of them still loved Mussolini perhaps. But the awesome lack of detail or lack of any real historical citations or quotes, or witness statements by the Smithsonian does not give us even a single detail of such. Do your homework Smithsonian. Be trustworthy. People are counting on you.
3 countries vs the world. What a great leader
It was a lot more than 3 countries. Most nations were in this against the 3 great evil empires.
they did have casualties. planes crashed and there was fighting at bottom of mountain at cable car
This video is a real piece of work, trying to denigrate a real accomplishment no doubt because it was a German success. I'm sure if it was an American raid the video would be about how the Americans were so daring that they caught the enemy so off guard that not a shot was fired.
Seeing such films and false titles given to the courage and frivolity of the Germans, just make me doubt and skeptical about what the history and narratives described ... like the Dunkirk film, which contained countless lies and attempts to illustrate that great escape in a heroic manner! And I realized that a Spitfire could have been Glide around for about half an hour (without
engine)! The attempt to defame the Germans can never make the opposite side clean (reputation clear and indisputable )
Fantastic comment. Watch timeline documentaries and you would be disguisted. Britain could never have survived a month of war against Germany despite the useless empire. Germany fought their battles with their own resources and blood. They fought independently. They never looked for allies to lean on .
Where is Germans side of it? I like to see both sides. I have no clue since I'm only 21.
The title for this video is a sham.
History is written by the victors.
Let me guess, the "people" behind this story are Steinowitzblattsbergs.
The commandos did better than the Navy Seals trying to capture Bin Laden.
Most daring mission in history period.
what was daring about it? they literally gave him up, nobody needed him in italy, in the end he got killed anyway
@@Contagious93812 jealous?
So how was it a sham then? Explain please.
If this is considered Objective history. Then we people will not learn anything. And are doomed to repeat the same mistakes.
Worthless propaganda
No no, Mussolini's rescue was real. Too many documents recorded it.
General Fernando Soleti, who was in charge of the well-armed guards guarding Mussolini, told the guards to stand down. Unbeknownst to the guards, Soleti was in cahoots with the nazis, and the guards did as their superior officer ordered them to do. General Soleti flew in on one of the gliders with the nazis. Everything in this video is just wrong or not even wrong. Wronger than wrong.
Really? The Italians would rather the Germans have him then imprison? Are you kidding me? He went on to be a puppet leader in northern Italy until it was liberate by the allies. Go watch mark Felton! This channel is putting up some shady news.
??? what is this video even talking about
sham? the operation was so successful no one died on both sides.
By this time, Mussolini was a little more than a nuisance. Maybe the Italians thought: if you Germans want him so much then take him. We don't care!
JT Manuel Too bad he was put as a puppet dictator over Nothern Italy for them, so Italy was still fucked over.
The guards were still loyal to Duce, otherwise they would have resisted.
Skorzeny led the rescue .
Did the Nazis break Mussolini out...yes or no?
This video is sham. The operation was not.
It was a daring rescue, most of the Paratroops were not SS. There were some there some there under Skorzeny, they were more in the way and didnt contribute to the success of the mission. The non SS Paratroops did the lions share of the work and it thanks to them that no shots were fired. Skorzeny nearly botched the mission by cramming in to the Fiesler Storch with Mussolini, and it was full credit to the pilot that it didnt crash. Skorzeny took the credit.
Why they all seem to discredit Skorzeny? What ever glory seeking man he may be he was still capable. None of his opposition mentions another similar action in Budapest where he stormed Royal castle to capture Hungarian head of state. If he was such a hoax then certainly he wouldn't have been given a role in the Battle of the Bulge.
This video is trach propaganda.
He didn't tell about that this was the very first military mission that used a helicopter
The Jewsonian Channel
He came from top to bottom
Mussolini ranting on the balcony was a display of self assured manic arrogance.
Allied Propaganda
What a bunch of bs
dream on
It is hard for some to acknowledge that an SS man could lead successfully such a daring commando raid, its success acknowledged by Churchill. Keep suffering. They cannot change history.
mussolini was a great guy
Total mission success and a huge propaganda win for Germany. Doesn't sound like a sham to me @Smithsonian.
This is a complete free Nat Geo documentary yet this channel is asking to pay for it to watch lol
Good rescue mission
Cope and seethe. You gotta free your bros
Revisionist “history lesson”.
No, an Allied fake narrative.
this is bullshit, long live to German and Italian soldiers
They're all dead.
awhodothey not all
norax
Okay, long live the 3% of soldiers not already dead.
awhodothey th-cam.com/video/BK18ERatWZk/w-d-xo.html ... people die, ideas and civilization live in us.
norax
Nazism and fascism are even more dead than those soldiers. There are more ex-fascists alive than fascists.
"Italy was changing sides." Who would've seen that coming?
then how did he get captured and executed?
Yeah I always thought
That this story never added up.
You are being fooled.
That channel is a shamE.
What juvenile stupidity.
"italy changed sides" name 1 war italy was in and they did not change sides, their was 1 war they were in and they changed sides twice ending up on the side they started with....
"Italian traitors"? Mussolini was legally dismissed from office by the King of Italy.
Who would bother to produce and publish nonsense like this?
A sham implies a bit of subterfuge and dishonesty. None of that here. Please, please, don't try to remove the laurels from a generation that fought for a cause, whatever todays computer bound, console bound generation thinks of that cause. Better still, get on a glider and try landing on a short strip, without the anticipation of enemy gunfire. Can you do that or would you rather play Call Of Duty?
Classic 'fact check' inc technique...highlight irrelevant fact to prove a false conclusion
Europeans lost the war, now we have lost everything that makes us distinctly European.
''Evil man'' spoke of a tribe that controlled banks, politics and media. Was he wrong? He was not.
Is this narrator the guy who does the Yankees
False
Seriously? I read on my own and was told by my father, who was an avid WWII reader, that Mussolini and his mistress were hung. It's been said that he was hung upside down.
Good ridens
Do you remember that raid the USA did on that captured Soldier girl in Iraq!!! Looooooool
it was so they look good and that the Nazis are still powerful in my opinion u believe they dropped when there were practically all fascist mussolini fans possibly the commander to or was planned who will be there that won't attack the paratroopers so they could get out like that without 1 bullet shot 1 way or another it was for proof of power they didn't care about Italy's beloved leader.
Italians crack me up.
How tf this dude get all this power wasn’t he a rice farmer or something....I read about him in school but it wasn’t nothing talking about his rise
hitler was a starving artist before he was a dictator. Doesnt matter what your backround is, any asshole can gain immense authority
Allies 1. Axis 0.
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I am shocked at the frequency of the racist comments against Jews on videos like this.
Oh. I see you are insane.
It’s called a joke
Micheal Müller even a crap can still worth something than a hundreds of jews combined. Look at Israel. We should never set them free in the first place
Hey, it's not racism if it's true, bro. Calling out social parasitism isn't racism
The Demigod excactly
When mussolini and hitler speak with eachother What language do they speak?
German -- Mussolini was fluent in it.
Fritz Steiner ah thats Why his Berlin speech was so good
Allied cope
i disliked because this video deserve it.
Unsubscribing your propoganda channel bye I'm off to @Mark Felton production
No it wasn't 😂 😂 😂
It was no 'Eben Emael' insofar as a mission impossible feat or demonstration of brutal CQC firepower or massive logistics, however the Gran Sasso 'raid' was technically well executed and daring regarding the given resources then on hand for the enemy airborne forces of that phase of the war. They landed gliders on unfavorable a windy and rocky LZ, and with overwhelming forces (a few hundred paratroopers) and secured the place and the 'subject' with no losses and without killing anyone in the process, that alone is sort of rare for a group of paratroopers whom tend to be trigger happy and wreckless. The extraction via overloaded 'storch' light plane was lucky to have pulled off their improvised exit plan as well. Even if exaggerated as bloody raid to bust Bonito out of jail, the airborne operation was successful, ambitious (desperate) and was a good show for the 'Jerries'... as they say. Seems like a long time ago.
This channel should be shut down for trying to deny history.
Smith-so is bolshivikkii. proper ganda
Well they were all smiling and posing for photos and they ( The Italians) did look compliant with the Germans and they still had there guns . Apart from the man in charge they all looked pretty happy
wow, this was the Smithsonian Channel 's "Stop Normalizing Nazis" video
This is what actually happened and is fairly well documented and described in a few references. In 1942 Otto Skorzeny became captain and “Chief of Germany's Special Troops, designed for existing or future missions.
in 1943 Hitler's friend Benito Mussolini was overthrown and jailed in Italy at the Gran Sasso. Otto Skorzeny was entrusted the rescue operation which he planned in all details and successfully performed, being awarded the Knight’s Cross. Otto's story is quite interesting but the fact the allies could not get hold of him after he fled in 1948 leads to allied narratives of this kind.
Nah this was genius, this video just hating
Smiteshunian inspipute Raaather My grandfather participated Peetered parted safe and sound U try 2 rewrite history Staliniztz or just ordinbary new liberalizztz) Shalom
aw, come on!
Yellow!