Wolff, Lt-General Karl

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Wolff, Lt-General Karl (1906–84),early SS member who was a pre-war chief of staff to Himmler. After Italy's surrender in September 1943 he became military governor of northern Italy and head of the SS there. In March 1945, realizing Germany had lost the war, he met Allen Dulles in Switzerland to arrange the capitulation of all German forces in Italy which took place on 2 May 1945. This saved him from prosecution at the Nuremberg trials but, having served one week of a four-year sentence in 1949, he was sentenced in 1964 to 15 years' imprisonment for murdering 100 Jews and sending 300,000 more to the death camps (see OPERATION REINHARD). He was released in 1969 because of ill health.

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