Karl Wolff

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 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 re-arrested and prosecuted in West Germany for the deportation of Polish Jews, and he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for being an accessory to murder in 1964. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Wolff has received more than 934,963 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Wolff is the 280th most popular military personnel (down from 250th in 2019), the 641st most popular biography from Germany (down from 584th in 2019) and the 64th most popular German Military Personnel.

Karl Wolff was a high-ranking Nazi SS officer who served as a personal adjutant to Adolf Hitler. He was the Commandant of the Nazi concentration camps of Dachau and Sachsenhausen. He was also the chief of the Gestapo in Lyon, France.