Taking a short break from my usual diet of air foce and aircraft books, I've been readibng a very interesting book about the Nazi attempts to create resistence and sabotage groups before the end of the war:
The SS Hunter Battalions
The most commonly held belief is that it was Skorzeny and small plucky band of commandos who rescued Mussolini, and thus, he is the one who received all the acclaim. As the attached scans show this isn't exactly the whole truth. Even the wiki article only mentions that he was "part" of the rescue - which seems to be streching the truth beyond the real situation. Have a read and let me know what you think.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Eiche
I'm only a 100 pages into the 400 page tome, and though it's a hard slog because most the material is new to me, I'm gripped the stories of departmental fighting, the building of the Skorzeny myths, the manipulation of the Nazi belief in racial-purity for pragmatic alliances with old enemies, and the failure of so many schemes.