Gran Sasso raid

When

12 Sep 1943

Kind

Military operation

Coordinates

42.43° N, 13.53° E

Description

1943 rescue of Benito Mussolini by German forces

1943 Nazi German raid to free Benito Mussolini from prison

The Gran Sasso raid on 12 September 1943 freed Benito Mussolini from imprisonment in a hotel on the Gran Sasso d'Italia massif. The World War II operation was codenamed Operation Oak by the German military. This raid, carried out by German paratroopers and Waffen-SS was personally ordered by Adolf Hitler, approved by General Kurt Student, and planned and executed by Major Harald Mors.

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• Wikidata: military operations, raids and air strikesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “WWII: Gran Sasso raid – German paratroopers rescue Mussolini from imprisonment, in Unternehmen Eiche ("Operation Oak")”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Deutschen Fallschirmjägertruppen unter General Kurt Student gelingt es im Unternehmen Eiche, den abgesetzten italienischen Diktator Benito Mussolini aus seiner…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Mussolini, qui était détenu dans les Abruzzes, est libéré par un commando parachutiste dirigé par Otto Skorzeny sur ordre de Hitler”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “В Италии начинается операция “Дуб””Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page