German Commando Raids

I have been photographing SOE P/Fs and one (of quite a well known SOE agent)
has some comments regarding Security complaining about his wife having revealed that a Home Guard officer was taken POW by a German Raiding Party.

I have always wondered if German raids were 'hushed up' at the time and since.

 

Now how many German Commando style raids did you ever hear off. About the true raid of that nature was when they rescued Mussolini in Italy. By late 1940 the coast was was covered in mines and barb wire for miles and every landing place was well guarded.

 

I've heard of three 2 eboat landings and one airborne raid the later was a sabotage mission on an aircraft factory in the North West

 

Now how many German Commando style raids did you ever hear off. About the true raid of that nature was when they rescued Mussolini in Italy. By late 1940 the coast was was covered in mines and barb wire for miles and every landing place was well guarded


Don't forget THIS! The biggie....

Granville Raid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Okay, it was in the wrong direction LOL but it was still a highly effective and successful commando-style raid...

 

I once read that there was talk of a cover up in the Isle of Wight, following an alleged German Raid.

Regards
Tom

 

I have been photographing SOE P/Fs and one (of quite a well known SOE agent)
has some comments regarding Security complaining about his wife having revealed that a Home Guard officer was taken POW by a German Raiding Party.

I have always wondered if German raids were 'hushed up' at the time and since.

I always think that but if you look at it from the other way round would not the German propaganda machine gone overtime time on such things. Hard to hush things up if they are in the neutral press.

 

In the main the Wehrmacht SF - The Brandenburgers were very secretive and even more so the BB Detachments working with the Abwehr's FAK (Front Aufklarungs Kommando) or FAT (Front Aufklarungs Truppe) the Skorzeny rescue mission was widely broadcast but other German missions received little publicity. Part of the failure of German SF was the Allied use of Enigma, and the fact that the Airborne liaison officer for the Eastern Front was part of the Russian Harnack network which betrayed many missions before the cell was caught and executed.

 

The Skorzeny Jagd Kommandos were not part of the Brandenburgers though many BB members were drafted in to the Waffen SS post 20th July 44 - the Brandenburg Division then became a Panzer Grenadier Division on the Eastern front. A small clandestine unit called the Kurfurst Regiment was retained by OKW independent of the SS.