Secrets of the SS

For decades Otto "Scarface" Skorzeny's exploits as a Nazi commando chief during World War II have made his name notorious. No less outrageous was his behavior after the war, when, far from abjuring his Nazi sympathies, he flaunted them from his hideaway in Spain. Now Glenn B. Infield, renowned popular historian of the Nazi era, not only reveals the details of Skorzeny's wartime activities but shows conclusively how he used Nazi gold (including Martin Bormann's legendary pillage of the death camps) to establish international neo-Nazi organizations such as Die Spinne and ODESSA, and to protect SS officers and high-ranking officials of the Third Reich throughout the world. Skorzeny emerges here as a complex, contradictory figure, untrammeled by ideology yet fanatically loyal to his Nazi past; a ruthless powerbroker who remained fiercely patriotic toward a Germany he rarely saw. He remains a dark yet undeniably magnetic figure out of the past.