CF024-C
Consignment
This is a Consignment sale piece we are offering. It comes in its original box and is in very good condition.
King & Country's Club Figure CF024 SS-Obersturmbannfuher Otto Skorzeny
Club Figure 2010
Obersturmbannfubrer (Lt. Col.) Skorzeny served with the Waffen SS
during WW2. After action on the Eastern Front he became famous for
leading a successful rescue mission to free the deposed Italian dictator
Benito Mussolini from captivity on a mountain top in Italy. Skorzeny
also led “Operation Greif” in which English – speaking German soldiers
wearing American uniforms spread panic and confusion behind U.S. lines
during the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944. Our K&C Club figure
has him wearing Luftwaffe uniform as he appeared on the Mussolini
rescue mission on September 12, 1943. He died in 1975.