Harald Mors

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Major Otto-Harald Mors was a battalion commander with the German paratroopers during the airborne raid to save Benito Mussolini in September 1943. He received the German Cross in Gold on 26 September 1943[1].

Mors played a key role in planning the raid, and participated as commander of the secondary force that secured the lower cable-car station at the foot of the Gran Sasso mountain as the airborne raid was underway at the mountain top, where Mussolini was held.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Patzwall 2001, p. 316
  • Annussek, G. Hitler's Raid To Save Mussolini, De Capo Press, 2005. ISBN 0-306-81396-3
  • Patzwall, Klaus D. and Scherzer, Veit. Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941 - 1945 Geschichte und Inhaber Band II. Norderstedt, Germany: Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, 2001. ISBN 3-931533-45-X.
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