 The photo appeared in the French press the next day, causing him to move to Salzburg, where he met up with German veterans and also filed for divorce so that he could marry Ilse Lüthje.Shortly afterwards, with the help of a Nansen passport issued by the Spanish government, he moved to Madrid, where he set up a small engineering business.On April 1950 the publication of Skorzeny's memoirs by the French newspaper "Le Figaro" caused 1500 communists to riot outside the journal's headquarters.