营救墨索里尼(英中对照)

古德明《征服英语》之英语军事故事，古德明，香港英语教育作家，他开了一个《征服英语专栏》，在专栏中专门用英语写了世界近代史上的军事小故事，用英语讲述历史中那些惊心动魄的战争。
营救墨索里尼
as the tide of the war turned against the axis powers in 1943, the italian dictator mussolini was deposed and arrested on the king's orders, while italy attempted to change sides.
now hitler needed an italian puppet to head the german-held northern italy, so he gave authorisation for a commando raid to free his old ally, who was held at the gran sasso hotel, high up in the apennine mountains. on 12 september 1943, otto skorzeny, who was responsible for the rescue mission, kidnapped italian general ferdinando soleti. that afternoon, 12 german gliders crashed-landed on the gran sasso's slopes. seeing general solefi with the german commandos, the italian guards did not open fire."duce, the fuhrer has sent me to set you free," skorzeny told mussolini."i knew my friend adolf hitler would not abandon me," mussolini responded.

一九四三年，轴心国战场上开始失利，意大利独裁者墨索里尼被国王下令罢免并拘捕。意大利还准备改投盟军阵营。
希特勒要有个意大利傀儡领导德国占领的北意大利，于是下令发动突击，救出他这个前盟友。墨索里尼当时被囚在亚平宁山上的大萨索旅馆。一九四三年九月十二日，负责营救行动的奥托．斯科兹尼绑架了意大利将领费迪南多．索莱蒂。那天下午，十二架德国滑翔机强行降落大萨索的山坡上。意大利守卫看到索莱蒂将军和德国突击队员一起，就没有开枪。斯科兹尼告诉墨索里尼说：「首领，我国元首派我来把你释放。」墨索里尼回答：「我早就知道，我的朋友亚朵夫．希特勒不会弃我于不顾。」