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Gran Sasso raid
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Gran Sasso raid
The
Gran Sasso raid
refers to
Operation
Eiche
(
German
for "Oak"), the rescue of Italian dictator
Benito Mussolini
by
German
paratroopers
led by Major
Otto-Harald Mors
and
Waffen-SS
commandos
in September 1943, during
World War II
. The airborne operation was personally ordered by
Adolf Hitler
, planned by Harald Mors, and approved by General
Kurt Student
.
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