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Karl Wolff. 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 ...
Jan 28, 2022 · Karl Wolff, here in 1937, rose high in the Nazi Party, yet was instrumental in brokering a successful peace agreement with the Allies near the war’s end. (Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1969-171-29/Franz Friedrich Bauer ) DURING WORLD WAR II, direct contact between Nazi and Allied leaders was vanishingly rare. Two particularly dramatic exceptions ...
Jul 5, 2020 · Karl Wolff was born on May 13, 1900 in Darmstadt, the son of a wealthy district court magistrate. He saw active service during the First World War, rising to the rank of Lieutenant in the Guards and receiving the Iron Cross - First and Second Class. From December 1918 to May 1920, he was a Lieutenant in the Hessian Freikorps.
Jul 17, 1984 · By From news services. July 16, 1984 at 8:00 p.m. EDT. ROSENHEIM, West Germany -- Karl Friedrich Otto Wolff, 84, a former SS general credited with establishing secret links with the United States ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Karl Friedrich Otto Wolff was a German SS functionary who served as Chief of Personal Staff Reichsführer-SS 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 that theatre, effectively ending the war there several days sooner than in the rest of Europe.
