Karl Wolff

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German Waffen-SS Army general and Nazi military war criminal (1900-1984)

Germany PoliticiansLived 1900 to 1984 · aged 84

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Karl Friedrich Otto Wolff was a senior German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer who served as Chief of Personal Staff Reichsführer-SS and an SS liaison to Adolf Hitler during World War II.

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Left to right: Heinrich Himmler, Reinhard Heydrich, Karl Wolff, Hermann Esser at the Berghof, May 1939

Himmler, Franz Ziereis and Wolff at Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp (April 1941)

Awards 11

1942Grand Cross of the Order of the White Rose of Finland

German Cross in Gold

Golden Party Badge

War Merit Cross

Honour Cross of the World War 1914/1918

Nazi Party Long Service Award

Anschluss Medal

Sudetenland Medal

Memel Medal

Order of St. Sava

SS-Ehrenring

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Józef BeckAlso won Order of St. Sava

Theodor EickeAlso won Nazi Party Long Service Award

Walther von BrauchitschAlso won Memel Medal

Nikolaus von FalkenhorstAlso won War Merit Cross

Hans GlobkeAlso won Sudetenland Medal

Werner von BlombergAlso won Golden Party Badge

About this person

Karl Friedrich Otto Wolff was a senior German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer 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. He escaped prosecution at the Nuremberg Trials as a result of his participation in Operation Sunrise. In 1962, Wolff was arrested in West Germany and prosecuted for the deportation of Polish Jews. In 1964, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for being an accessory to murder. He was released in 1971 and died 13 years later.

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Germany