Otto Skorzeny rose from engineer to one of Nazi Germany’s most famous special operations officers, building his reputation on ...

Before creating James Bond, Ian Fleming led a top-secret commando unit on D-Day, hunting Nazi codebooks and rocket sites. The ...

FILE - In this Oct. 18, 1977 file photo the first freed hostages step down the gangway after landing at Frankfurt am Main's airport, in West Germany. Ulrich Wegener, the commander of the German ...

October 9, 2008: Germany is pulling its commandos out of Afghanistan. The KSK commandos have been there for most of the last seven years. Many Germans, especially leftist politicians and journalists, ...

BERLIN (AP) — The commander of a German paramilitary unit that ended the 1977 hijacking of a plane by Palestinian militants has died. Ulrich Wegener was the first commander of the GSG-9 unit, created ...

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