Question: The Beast Reawakens, is a 1997 book by investigative journalist Martin A. Lee, in which he tells the story of old-guard fascists' strategy for survival and the revival of fascism since 1944, the book opens with a quotation from T. E. Lawrence's "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" (1922), a favorite of Hitler's favorite commando, who,which was an Austrian SS-"Obersturmbannführer" (lieutenant colonel) in the German Waffen-SS during World War II?

Context articles: The Beast Reawakens
Rudolf Höss
Artur Phleps
Finnish Volunteer Battalion of the Waffen-SS
Fritz Darges
Adolf Eichmann
Hubert Meyer
Richard Schulze-Kossens
Henry McMahon
Otto Skorzeny

The Beast Reawakens (later prints carried the subtitle Fascism's Resurgence from Hitler's Spymasters to Today's Neo-Nazi Groups and Right-Wing Extremists) is a 1997 book by investigative journalist Martin A. Lee, in which he tells the story of old-guard fascists' strategy for survival and the revival of fascism since 1944.
 Special attention is given to ODESSA actions during the Cold War, international fascist networks, and political inroads to the right-wing mainstream.
 The book opens with a quotation from T. E. Lawrence's "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" (1922), a favorite of Hitler's favorite commando, SS-Standartenführer Otto Skorzeny.
Rudolf Höss (also Höß, Hoeß or Hoess; 25 November 1901 – 16 April 1947) was a Nazi German "SS"-"Obersturmbannführer" (lieutenant colonel) and the longest-serving commandant of Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp in World War II.
 He tested and carried into effect various methods to accelerate Hitler's plan to systematically exterminate the Jewish population of Nazi-occupied Europe, known as the "Final Solution".
 On the initiative of one of his subordinates, SS-"Hauptsturmführer" (captain) Karl Fritzsch, Höss introduced pesticide Zyklon B containing hydrogen cyanide to the killing process, thereby allowing SS soldiers at Auschwitz to murder 2,000 people every hour.
 He created the largest installation for the continuous annihilation of human beings ever known.
Artur Gustav Martin Phleps (29 November 1881 – 21 September 1944) was an Austro-Hungarian, Romanian and German army officer who held the rank of "SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS" (lieutenant general) in the "Waffen-SS" during World War II.
 An Austro-Hungarian Army officer before and during World War I, he specialised in mountain warfare and logistics, and had been promoted to "Oberstleutnant" (lieutenant colonel) by the end of the war.
 During the interwar period he joined the Romanian Army, reaching the rank of "General-locotenent" (major general), and also became an adviser to King Carol.
 After he spoke out against the government, he was sidelined and asked to be dismissed from the army.
The Finnish Volunteer Battalion of the Waffen-SS (German: "Finnisches Freiwilligen-Bataillon der Waffen-SS" ) was a motorized infantry battalion of the Nazi German Waffen-SS.
 It was formed from Finnish volunteers and fought on the Eastern Front during World War II.
 For most of its existence it was attached to SS-Regiment Nordland of the SS Division Wiking.
 The battalion participated in the Battle of the Caucasus in mid-1942 and the subsequent Third Battle of Kharkov in early 1943, after the German defeat during the Battle of Stalingrad in late 1942 forced the Germans to evacuate the Caucasus.
 It was disbanded in mid-1943 as the two-year commitment of the volunteers had expired and the Finnish Government was unwilling to allow more men to volunteer.
Fritz Darges (8 February 1913 – 25 October 2009) was an "Obersturmbannführer" (lieutenant colonel) in the Waffen-SS during World War II who was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
 He served as an adjutant to Martin Bormann and later was a personal adjutant to Adolf Hitler.
Otto Adolf Eichmann (] ; 19 March 1906 – 1 June 1962) was a German Nazi SS-"Obersturmbannführer" (lieutenant colonel) and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust.
 Eichmann was tasked by SS-"Obergruppenführer" (general/lieutenant general) Reinhard Heydrich with facilitating and managing the logistics involved in the mass deportation of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps in German-occupied Eastern Europe during World War II.
 In 1960, Eichmann was captured in Argentina by the Mossad, Israel's intelligence service.
 Following a widely publicised trial in Israel, he was found guilty of war crimes and hanged in 1962.
Hubert Meyer (5 December 1913 – 16 November 2012) was a German Waffen-SS commander who served during World War II.
 He had junior postings with the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler and commanded the SS Division Hitlerjugend in 1944.
 After the war, he became active in HIAG, a Waffen-SS lobby group.
Richard Schulze (2 October 1914 in Spandau, Berlin – 3 July 1988 in Düsseldorf) was a Waffen-SS officer during the Second World War who reached the rank of SS-"Obersturmbannführer" (lieutenant colonel).
 During World War II, Schulze served as a Waffen-SS adjutant to the foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and later commanded the 38th SS Division Nibelungen, SS-Junkerschule Bad Tölz.
 He was awarded the German Cross in Gold and the Finnish Order of the Cross of Liberty.
Lieutenant Colonel Sir Arthur Henry McMahon (28 November 1862 – 29 December 1949), was a British Indian Army officer and diplomat who served as the High Commissioner in Egypt from 1915 to 1917.
 He was also an administrator in the British Raj and served twice as Chief Commissioner of Balochistan.
 McMahon is best known for the McMahon-Hussein Correspondence with Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, the McMahon Line between Tibet and India and the Declaration to the Seven in response to a memorandum written by seven notable Syrians.
 After the Sykes-Picot Agreement was published by the Bolshevik Russian government in November 1917, McMahon resigned.
 He also features prominently in T.E. Lawrence's account of his role in the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire during World War I, Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
Otto Skorzeny (12 June 19085 July 1975) was an Austrian SS-"Obersturmbannführer" (lieutenant colonel) in the German Waffen-SS during World War II.
 During the war, he was involved in a string of operations, including the rescue mission that freed the deposed Italian dictator Benito Mussolini from captivity.
 Skorzeny led Operation Greif, in which German soldiers infiltrated enemy lines using their opponents' languages, uniforms, and customs.
 For this he was charged at the Dachau Military Tribunal with breaching the 1907 Hague Convention, but was acquitted.
 At the end of the war, Skorzeny was involved with the Werwolf guerrilla movement.