He said they were in a car directly behind and would accompany them to a safe place in a forest for a chat. The two men were in Krug’s white Mercedes, driving north out of Munich, and Skorzeny said that as a first step he had arranged for three bodyguards. Krug contacted Skorzeny in the hope that the great hero - then living in Spain - could create a strategy to keep the scientists safe. American and British military intelligence labeled Skorzeny “the most dangerous man in Europe.” The colonel’s feats during the war inspired Germans and the grudging respect of Germany’s enemies. Thanks to Skorzeny’s exploits as a guerrilla commander, Hitler recognized that he had a man who would go above and beyond, and stop at nothing, to complete a mission. A dashing, innovative military man who grew up in Austria - famous for a long scar on the left side of his face, the result of his overly exuberant swordplay while fencing as a youth- he rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel in Nazi Germany’s Waffen-SS.
Skorzeny, then 54 years old, was quite simply a legend. On the day he vanished, according to our new information from reliable sources, Krug left his office to meet Skorzeny, the man he felt would be his savior. One of the Mossad’s top priorities was stopping German scientists from working on Egypt’s rocket program. That was why he summoned help: a Nazi hero who was considered the best of the best in Hitler’s heyday. It was reasonable for Krug to feel that a Mossad noose might be tightening around his neck, too. The Israelis astonishingly smuggled the Nazi to Jerusalem, where he was put on trial. In 1960, Israeli agents had kidnapped Adolf Eichmann, one of the chief administrators of the Holocaust, in far-off Argentina. He and his colleagues knew that the threats were from Israelis. The threatening notes and phone calls, however, were driving Krug crazy. A committed Nazi would see this as an opportunity to continue the ghastly mission of exterminating the Jewish people. In the Israelis’ view, Krug had to know that Israel, the country where so many Holocaust survivors had found refuge, was the intended target of his new masters’ military capabilities. They would set up a secret strategic missile program for that Arab country. Krug opted for another, seemingly more lucrative option: joining other scientists from the Peenemünde group - led by the German professor Wolfgang Pilz, whom he greatly admired - in Egypt. He even became one of the fathers of the NASA space exploration program. Von Braun, his war record practically expunged, was leading a missile development program for the United States.
Its wider ambitions included missiles that could fly a lot farther, with greater accuracy and more destructive power.Īccording to Mossad research, a decade after the war ended, von Braun invited Krug and other former colleagues to join him in America. The team, led by Wernher von Braun, was proud to have engineered the rockets for the Blitz that nearly defeated England. Krug, as it happens, was near the top of the Mossad’s target list.ĭuring the war that ended 17 years earlier, Krug was part of a team of superstars at Peenemünde, the military test range on the coast of the Baltic Sea, where top German scientists toiled in the service of Hitler and the Third Reich. When in Egypt, some were sent letter bombs - and several people were injured by the explosions. When in Germany, they got phone calls in the middle of the night, telling them to quit the Egyptian program. For several months before his death, in fact, Krug, along with other Germans who were working in Egypt’s rocket-building industry, had received threatening messages. Key to understanding the story is that the Mossad had made stopping German scientists then working on Egypt’s rocket program one of its top priorities.
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The story of how that came to be is one of the most important untold tales in the archives of the Mossad, the agency whose full name, translated from Hebrew, is “The Institute for Intelligence and Special Missions.” By 1962, according to our sources - who spoke only on the promise that they not be identified - Skorzeny had a different employer. His Hero: Skorzeny meets with Hitler in 1943 after leading the daring rescue of the German leader’s friend and ally, Benito Mussolini.
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