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    Waffen-SS general and war criminal

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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Karl_WolffKarl Wolff - Wikipedia

    Karl Friedrich Otto Wolff (13 May 1900 – 17 July 1984) was a German SS functionary who served as Chief of Personal Staff Reichsführer-SS ( Heinrich Himmler) and an SS liaison to Adolf Hitler during World War II.

  2. Jan 28, 2022 · Since late 1943 he had been the senior SS commander in Italy—essentially the Reich’s chief enforcer in that theater. His title was fearsome: SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen SS, Highest SS and Police Leader and Military Plenipotentiary of the German Armed Forces.

  3. Jul 5, 2020 · The amiable, aristocratic- looking Karl Wolff was arrested on January 18, 1962, and charged with complicity in the mass murder of Jews. He was accused of sending at least 300,000 Jews to the Treblinka death camp. Karl Wolff was ordered to look into transport difficulties.

  4. Karl Friedrich Otto Wolff was born the son of a wealthy district court magistrate in Darmstadt, Germany, on May 13, 1900. During World War I he graduated from school in 1917, volunteered to join the Imperial German Army (Leibgarde-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 115) and served on the Western Front. He rose to the rank of lieutenant and was awarded ...

  5. www.wikiwand.com › en › Karl_WolffKarl Wolff - Wikiwand

    Karl Friedrich Otto Wolff (13 May 1900 – 17 July 1984) was a German SS functionary who served as Chief of Personal Staff Reichsführer-SS ( Heinrich Himmler) and an SS liaison to Adolf Hitler during World War II. He ended the war as the Supreme SS and Police Leader in occupied Italy and helped arrange for the early surrender of Axis forces in ...

  6. Karl Wolff (13 May 1900 – 17 July 1984), SS Obergruppenführer, was Heinrich Himmler ’s chief of staff and his liaison officer to Adolf Hitler. As such, he had access to all the material crossing Himmler’s desk. Toward the end of the war, on Himmler’s initiative, Wolff negotiated an early surrender of the German forces in Italy to the U.S. Forces.

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  8. Jul 17, 1984 · Karl Wolff, the Nazi SS general who surrendered German troops in Italy in 1945, died today. He was 84 years old. The cause of General Wolff's death was not disclosed. In 1971, he suffered a...

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