https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Sasso_raid
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Mertins
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Sch%C3%A4fer
Based on interviews and supposed contradictions between eyewitnesses and on other documents, the Gran Sasso raid is considered as possible result of a secret agreement between Badoglio's Italian government and the German government. Gerhard Mertins was among the paratroopers who participated in the raid.
Gerhard Mertins (30 December 1919 – 19 March 1993) was a German paratrooper, arms trafficker, Nazi and associate of pedophile cult leader Paul Schäfer. In 1943, he participated in the Gran Sasso raid rescuing Benito Mussolini from prison.
According to Manuel Contreras, he allegedly supplied the Pinochet regime with arms and helicopters. In 1976, he and Manuel Contreras traveled to Tehran to offer the Shah regime help in killing Carlos the Jackal.