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Karl Wolff. For the folklorist of the South Tyrol, see Karl Felix 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.
- 1917–1918, 1931–1945
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.
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.
Jul 17, 1984 · ROSENHEIM, West Germany -- Karl Friedrich Otto Wolff, 84, a former SS general credited with establishing secret links with the United States that helped end the fighting in Italy in World War...
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.
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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.S. Forces.
