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William Ramsey Investigates

Otto Skorzeny: The Devil's Disciple with Author Stuart Smith. (2021)

William Ramsey Investigates

William Ramsey Investigates

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🗓️ 18 September 2024

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Otto Skorzeny: The Devil's Disciple with Author Stuart Smith. (2021)

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0:00.0

Hopefully streaming our work. It didn't work last. Oh, we're live.

0:03.0

We are live. Hi, this is William Ramsey. Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates on today's show of a very special guest. He comes to us from the UK. His name is Stuart Smith. And I saw him on Netflix. I saw him on a documentary titled Europe's Most Dangerous Man, Otto Scorseni in Spain. And so I was really fascinated by the subject.

0:23.6

And I had heard a little bit about Scorzani's name just as my interest in World War II.

0:28.6

But Stuart's an expert on Scorzini. He wrote this book titled Otto Scorzini,

0:33.6

The Devil's Disciple published 2018.

0:36.6

A terrific book with 42 five-star reviews, so it's very well received on Amazon.

0:41.8

So people can go check that out.

0:43.1

But Stewart's going to talk more about that.

0:44.8

So Stuart Smith, are you there?

0:46.8

I'm there.

0:47.4

Yeah, hello.

0:48.0

Glad to be here.

0:49.0

Yeah, great.

0:49.7

Well, thanks for agreeing to the interview.

0:50.8

For people who may not have heard your name. Can you talk about your background and what led you to write this book,

0:55.4

Autoskorsani, the devil's disciple? Sure, sure. An accident, really. I was, I studied history, university, modern history included, but not exclusively.

1:06.8

Certainly not the end of the Second World War in any great detail. But then I became a journalist. I was a business journalist, a specialist.

1:14.0

I edited quite a well-known marketing magazine in the UK.

1:18.1

And after I left that job, as editor, I did it for 20 years.

1:21.6

I set up my own blog, became a consultant.

1:25.1

And one day when I was working with another of my colleagues from the same

1:29.2

magazine, an earlier editor, we were putting stuff together and a submission came in. And it was a

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