SS-Obersturmbannführer
Otto Skorzeny being interrogated by U.S. officers on May 1945. Skorzeny
was interned for two years before being tried as a war criminal at the
Dachau trials in 1947 for allegedly violating the laws of war during the
Battle of the Bulge. He and nine officers of the Panzerbrigade 150 were
tried before a U.S. Military Tribunal in Dachau on 18 August 1947. They
faced charges of improper use of U.S. military insignia, theft of U.S.
uniforms, and theft of Red Cross parcels from U.S. POWs. The trial
lasted over three weeks. The charge of stealing Red Cross parcels was
dropped for lack of evidence. Skorzeny admitted to ordering his men to
wear U.S. uniforms; but his defence argued that, as long as enemy
uniforms were discarded before combat started, such a tactic was a
legitimate ruse de guerre. On the final day of the trial, 9 September,
F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas, a former British SOE agent, testified that he and
his operatives wore German uniforms behind enemy lines; the Tribunal
acquitted the ten defendants. The Tribunal drew a distinction between
using enemy uniforms during combat and for other purposes including
deception and were unable to prove that Skorzeny had given any orders to
actually fight in U.S. uniforms.
Source :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Skorzeny
http://www.historicalwarmilitariaforum.com/search/?q=skorzeny&type=forums_topic
