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Did you miss all the other landings Juha ?
Many landings were made, not all are described at Uboat.net.
they landed and screwed up in every one obviously the selection of operatives standards were very low . That must be considered to a failure of intelligence commandThe soviets for one got their intel on the size of the German forces and when their attacks would take place during the Battle of Kursk from the British.
As for successful German special operations, well do I need to remind you of the rescue of Mussolini ? The capture of Maikop ? etc etc. There are littlerally hundreds of successful operations to mention Glider.
As for the spy landings in the US, go take a look yourself, in all the operations mentioned one of the crew turned himself in and sold out the others.
And many landings were made Glider, two seperate landings of four man team just for operation Pastorius in 1942, one team at Ponte Vedra beach near Jacksonville, and the others at Amagansett in New York.
I believe that this has been dealt with by ParsifalThe soviets for one got their intel on the size of the German forces and when their attacks would take place during the Battle of Kursk from the British.
Personally I make that two not hundreds.As for successful German special operations, well do I need to remind you of the rescue of Mussolini ? The capture of Maikop ? etc etc. There are littlerally hundreds of successful operations to mention Glider.
A large number did turn themselves in but by no means all as I have mentioned and given examples of before. The important thing is that the achieved NOTHING, hardly a success.As for the spy landings in the US, go take a look yourself, in all the operations mentioned one of the crew turned himself in and sold out the others.
Again your understanding of Many and mine differ. British secret services made many landings of special operatives in Europe literally hundreds. LRDPG made many incursions behind German/Italian lines.And many landings were made Glider, two seperate landings of four man team just for operation Pastorius in 1942, one team at Ponte Vedra beach near Jacksonville, and the others at Amagansett in New York.
They didn't have anything like the LRDPG or SAS/SBS. They had mountain troops but not on the scale of the Commando's or Rangers
Franz Kurowski is rated on the googlebooks "good read" reviews page as having a rating of just 3.7 out of 20. He is described as "innaccurate, biased, and poorly written" in several reviews. Other sites review his work quite highly, though without being specific. His background is as a serving member of the wehrmacht. one might suspect he has an agenda, other than to present the facts in an unbiased fashion.
The "Brandenburgers, incidentally finished the war (from 1943 on) as regular line Infantry, so evidently their own high command did not think all that much of them.
Its always been a question in my mind as to why the Germans didn't do more special forces raids. For instance I am not aware of any against the UK despite only being 25 miles away and wide open for attack for the first 18-24 months. They didn't have anything like the LRDPG or SAS/SBS. They had mountain troops but not on the scale of the Commando's or Rangers.