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Karl Friedrich Otto Wolff was born the son of a wealthy district court judge in Darmstadt on 13 May 1900. [2] 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. [3]
In the early 1970s, Karl Wolff, former Supreme SS and Police Leader in Italy, promoted the theory of an alleged plot. Most other allegations of such a plot are based on a 1972 document written by Wolff that Avvenire d'Italia published in 1991, and on personal interviews with Wolff before his death in 1984. Wolff maintained that on 13 September ...
In 1933, Karl Wolff came to the attention of Himmler who in June 1933, appointed Wolff his adjutant and made him chief of the office of his Personal Staff. [2] Himmler also appointed Wolff the SS Liaison Officer to Hitler. [3] As Himmler's principal adjutant and close associate, Wolff's daily activities involved overseeing Himmler's schedule ...
SS General Karl Wolff's Proxy of Surrender for northern Italy, 2 May 1945. Operation Sunrise (sometimes called the Berne incident) was a series of World War II secret negotiations from February to May 1945 between representatives of Nazi Germany and the United States to arrange a local surrender of German forces in northern Italy. [1]
Karl Wolff: Chief of staff to Heinrich Himmler and Supreme SS and Police Leader of Italy 14235 7 October 1931 695131 Udo von Woyrsch: Higher SS and Police Leader in the SS-Oberabschnitt Südost 3689 162349 Alfred Wünnenberg: SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen SS and the commander of the 4th SS Polizei Panzer Grenadier Division
also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; interned until 1948 Karl Wolff: Chief Persönlicher Stabe Reichsführer SS; SS liaison officer to Führer HQ 1939–1943; Höchster SS- und Polizeiführer (Supreme SS and Police Leader) Italy 1943-1945 1900–1984: also: General der Waffen-SS; imprisoned 1945–1949 and 1964–1969 Udo von Woyrsch
Karl Wolff – SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS. He became Chief of Personal Staff to the Reichsführer-SS (Heinrich Himmler) and SS Liaison Officer to Hitler until his replacement in 1943. From 1943 to 1945, Wolff was the Supreme SS and Police Leader of the 'Italien' area.
By a stroke of luck SS-Obergruppenführer Karl Wolff, the Supreme Commander of all SS forces in Italy, was standing next to General Röttiger when von Alvensleben's call came through. Taking the phone from Röttiger, Wolff volunteered to von Alvensleben that the SS and SD detachments should stand down on his authority [ 4 ] – no matter that ...