lives.

The Nazis expended enormous resources making futile attempts to
take out just one man. For example, the Germans committed a huge
raiding force including a mountain division and a battalion of
800 SS paratroopers in a bid to get Tito at his headquarters. The
German parachute battalion was nearly wiped out as they suffered
600 casualties in the assault. Tito escaped. The Germans came away
empty-handed...again.

The British made a similar but smaller scale attempt to kill Rommel
at a misidentified headquarters in the Middle East. Another dismal
failure with heavy losses for the British Commandos.

In other words, it's not wise to focus too much effort on one person.
Amazing how quickly the egghead critics have forgotten it, particularly
German critics who would rather not discuss their own embarrassing
adventures at that game.

The German Tito raid was carried out by the SS Parachute Battalion 500
which was mostly a low morale penal unit. Yugoslavia with its rugged
mountails and poor rail & communications structure also made it an
excellent partisan stronghold. You fail to mention that a large number
of Tito's partisans were killed in the assault and that Tito himself
was almost caught- barely escaping with his life.
And BTW, the Germans DID rescue/recapture Mussolini from Gran Sasso...

Rob