Karl Wolff person
also: General Wolf, Wolf, Carl Wolf, Carl Wolfe, General Wolfe, Karl Wolf, Wolfe, Carl Wolff, German general, Himmler's top troubleshooter, Nazi general, SS General Karl Wolf, SS commander, SS general, KW
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Claims (73)
Karl Wolff member_of
Nazi Party documented
“Many remained free. Alan Dulles' most audacious intervention on behalf of the major Nazi war criminals took place in the later days of the war. The story of the relationship between Dulles and SS General Karl Wolf, Himmler's former chief of…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 20:03
Karl Wolff member_of
Nazi Party documented
“and the SS man with a closet full of Italian suits and the skirt-chasing industrialist with a charming smile, as Dahlman put it, became the core of the group determined to deliver Central Europe to the Western Allies before the Soviets arri…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12 @ 32:39
Karl Wolff member_of
Nazi Party documented
“Open secret negotiations with Dulles during the early spring of 1945. Talks that would have a destructive effect on sensitive U.S.-Soviet relations later on. Wolf had joined the Nazi party well before Hitler became chancellor. He had served…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12 @ 33:06
Allen Dulles funded
Karl Wolff book_quoted
“that he had abandoned two decades ago to work for Hitler, landing a job in a weekly magazine, courtesy of Alan Dulles, who had helped pave the return to civilian life because during this time, there was an employment ban on hiring former Na…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 3:20
Karl Wolff worked_for
Heinrich Himmler book_quoted
“He quickly proved to be the man on his way up with a circle of friends he had made as Himmler's banker. Wolf found it easy to establish contacts within advertising departments of leading German companies because they were not denazified. As…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 3:50
Adolf Hitler promoted
Karl Wolff book_quoted
“Success emboldened him. He began talking more openly about his past to friends and journalists. He revealed that 10 days before Hitler's suicide in Berlin, he had promised him to the rank of senior general in the SS, the military wing of Hi…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 4:19
Karl Wolff claimed_approval_from
Adolf Hitler book_quoted
“when he told a newsletter published by an SS veteran that Hitler had known about and completely approved of Operation Sunrise. Wolf, regarded with disdain by his former SS colleagues for his role in Sunrise, might have been trying to ingrat…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 4:49
Karl Wolff founded
Reichsreif book_quoted
“In 1953, he took a lead role in establishing the Reichsreif, a neo-fascist party in 1956. He began organizing an organization of former SS officers. The old ideas came slithering out once more. The demonization of non-Germanic races and the…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 5:42
Karl Wolff communicated_with
Allen Dulles book_quoted
“And who better to help him than his American patron? Wolf had stayed in touch with Dulles through the U.S. Occupation Authority stationed in Germany, passing him notes and books related to Operation Sunrise that he thought Alan Dulles might…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 6:12
Karl Wolff visited
Bonn book_quoted
“was the CIA director. On May 20, 1958, March Wolfe marched confidently into the U.S. Embassy in Bonn and asked to see the two CIA officers he knew. Informed that those agents were no longer there, Wolfe was escorted into the office of the C…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 7:13
Allen Dulles assisted_visa_for
Karl Wolff book_quoted
“Chatting with the Bond station chief, Wolf got to the point. He wanted assurances that he would have no trouble securing a visa for his visit. Informed about his old wartime collaborators, informed about his old wartime buddy, Dulles pulled…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 8:15
Alfredo Schuster worked_for
Karl Wolff book_quoted
“in a filthy raincoat, looking the worst for wear. As they sipped liqueur from glasses, Dolman reflected on how the Cardinal always put him in mind of a delicate alabaster statue. But Schuster, who had worked for Wolfe's SS team on the Sunri…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 12:28
Walter Rauff second_in_command_to
Karl Wolff book_quoted
“Dolman's anxieties were heightened when American agents installed two former SS colleagues in his Rome apartment, including Colonel Walter Roth, R-A-U-F-F, who had served as Carl Wolf's second-in-command in northern Italy, because he knew t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 29:27
Allen Dulles covered_up
Karl Wolff book_quoted
“used forced labor, just like Japan did, of the American POWs and Dutch POWs and everybody else. And they worked them literally to death. According to records brought to light, Dulles also protected Carl Wolff, the highest ranking SS officer…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #1 @ 39:16
Allen Dulles recruited
Karl Wolff documented
“the U.S. responded stiffly that the wedding was a private nature and there wasn't anything they could do about it. The more sophisticated Axis defendants soon learned how to make the most out of the division among the Allies. The post-war c…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12b @ 49:06
Allen Dulles covered_up
Karl Wolff documented
“Russia's going to come across and kill all of you, we'll help you. Though Dulles was later to deny it, he extended a de facto protection to Karl Wolf and at least two of his assistants, Eugene Dahlman and Eugene Winner, both of whom were la…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12b @ 50:03
Allen Dulles covered_up
Karl Wolff documented
“that both Dolman and Winter will be removed to Germany under security arrangements as soon as EUCOM, European Command, and the U.S. military could confirm that they'll accept them. The U.S. shipped Dolman immediately. Once Wolf, Dolman, and…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12b @ 1:04:17
Karl Wolff member_of
Operation Sunrise documented
“SS General Karl Wolf claims that in connection with Operation Sunrise leading to the surrender of German forces in Italy, that that had been a promise of none other than Alan Dulles. Wolf alleges Major Weibel of the Swiss General Staff was …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12b @ 1:04:46
Karl Wolff member_of
Wolf Group documented
“were more junior SS officers, but they face the same problem. The U.S. government transferred Wolf from an internment camp to considerably more comfortable lodging in a mental hospital and later claimed that he had had a mental breakdown, r…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12b @ 1:07:33
Karl Wolff carried_out_attack
Operation Sunrise documented
“Definite consideration should be given to favorable aspects of weighing any war crimes in which they've been charged. Wolfe's role in organizing the extermination camps and in administering forced labor and the extensive use of the forced l…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12b @ 1:07:01
United Kingdom covered_up
Karl Wolff documented
“They then kept Wolf in protective custody without bringing him to trial until Taylor's war crime unit had gone. In late 1949, the British brought Carl Wolf before a denazification board in Hamburg, a move that might have been fairly compare…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12b @ 1:08:56
United Kingdom pardoned
Karl Wolff documented
“They then kept Wolf in protective custody without bringing him to trial until Taylor's war crime unit had gone. In late 1949, the British brought Carl Wolf before a denazification board in Hamburg, a move that might have been fairly compare…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12b @ 1:08:56
Allen Dulles covered_up
Karl Wolff documented
“Those witnesses included Alan Dulles, Lyman Lemitsker, and General Terrence Airy. They each submitted an affidavit on his behalf. Dulles' senior aide, Jero von Jabernitz, testified in person as a defense witness. The board deliberately brie…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12b @ 1:09:27
Lyman Lemnitzer covered_up
Karl Wolff documented
“Those witnesses included Alan Dulles, Lyman Lemitsker, and General Terrence Airy. They each submitted an affidavit on his behalf. Dulles' senior aide, Jero von Jabernitz, testified in person as a defense witness. The board deliberately brie…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12b @ 1:09:27
Terence Airey covered_up
Karl Wolff documented
“Those witnesses included Alan Dulles, Lyman Lemitsker, and General Terrence Airy. They each submitted an affidavit on his behalf. Dulles' senior aide, Jero von Jabernitz, testified in person as a defense witness. The board deliberately brie…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12b @ 1:09:27
West Germany covered_up
Karl Wolff documented
“and the rest of the Old Sunrise team seemed to prefer avoiding a public trial. German courts convicted Wolfe of complicity in the murder of 300,000 Jewish people and sentenced him to 15 years in prison, 15 years for 300,000. He served seven…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12b @ 1:10:23
Karl Wolff headed
Decima Flottiglia MAS book_quoted
“Borghese and his men were under the direct command of Carl Wolff, W-O-L-F-F, who later spearheaded Operation Sunshine with Eugene Dahlman. The X-MUS would later also be used against the Allied forces in the South, as well as U.S. Army Range…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 8 @ 22:54
Allen Dulles recruited
Karl Wolff host_asserted
“you know, herder committee and the Marshall plan and everything that everybody knows about. But then the fact that, well, Ellen Dulles was on the Queen Mary too, and he was going over to Italy. And what nobody talks about is, you know, he a…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 49 (51) @ 59:00
Karl Wolff member_of
Nazi Party book_quoted
“to his Swiss counterpart, Max Weibel, KW doesn't realize how lucky he is that he is not spending the rest of his life in jail. And his wisest policy would be to keep fairly quiet about the loss of his underwear. He might easily have lost mo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 2:48
Karl Wolff member_of
Nazi Party documented
“into who got saved and who didn't. After the German surrender, SS General Karl Wolf proceeded on the assumption that Wolf's cooperation with Dulles had won him a place in post-war German government. Wolf sought to pick up the political thre…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12b @ 49:36
Allen Dulles recruited
Karl Wolff book_quoted
“Its implementation is quite another. Robert Murphy took personal charge of the political oversight of this plan immediately, and he made little secret of his inclinations. Meanwhile, the sensitive task of overseeing U.S. intelligence evalua…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12 @ 24:46
Karl Wolff headed
Nazi Party documented
“Open secret negotiations with Dulles during the early spring of 1945. Talks that would have a destructive effect on sensitive U.S.-Soviet relations later on. Wolf had joined the Nazi party well before Hitler became chancellor. He had served…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12 @ 33:06
Karl Wolff financed_via
IG Farben documented
“He managed Himmler's personal slush fund of gifts from German financiers as well as U.S. backers. He handled sensitive contacts that arranged SS transfers of slave labor to IG Farben and Continental Oil and other major companies. He became …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12 @ 33:35
Karl Wolff financed_via
Continental Oil documented
“He managed Himmler's personal slush fund of gifts from German financiers as well as U.S. backers. He handled sensitive contacts that arranged SS transfers of slave labor to IG Farben and Continental Oil and other major companies. He became …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12 @ 33:35
Allen Dulles recruited
Karl Wolff documented
“was crucial. Dulles and his intelligence colleagues had been secretly meeting with Wolf and his SS aides since late February, trying to work out a separate surrender of the German forces in Italy that would save the Nazi officers next and w…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 26:29
Heinrich Himmler appointed
Karl Wolff documented
“Himmler made Wolf his principal liaison to Hitler's headquarters, where he quickly became a favorite. Hitler enjoyed showing off Wolf at his dinner parties and made sure that he was by his side during war's tense moments when German forces …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 22:03
Karl Wolff member_of
Nazi Party host_asserted
“After talking their way past the partisan's blockade as well as the SS guard, they entered the villa and found General Wolfe in full SS uniform as if he had been expecting them all along. He offered the rescue party some of his favorite sco…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 33:24
Karl Wolff recruited
Allen Dulles host_asserted
“It was after two in the morning when the caravan arrived safely back with their special passenger who had changed into civilian clothes for the journey. Gavernich was anxiously awaiting the rescue team's return in the railroad station cafe.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 33:50
Karl Wolff carried_out_attack
Italy host_asserted
“It took Wolf several days of high-stakes diplomacy before his maneuvers finally resulted in the surrender of German forces on the Italian front on May 2, 1945. By then, Hitler was dead, the German military machine was all but collapsed, and…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 35:20
Karl Wolff ordered_assassination_of
Soviet Union host_asserted
“of a stab in the back where the surrender on the Italian front was signed by Germany and American commanders only grew more intense. His suspicions were not unfounded. After the separate peace was declared, some German divisions in Italy we…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 36:17
Karl Wolff member_of
Nazi Party host_asserted
“Eichmann sneeringly referred to Wolf as one of the dandy officers of the SS who wore white gloves and didn't want to know anything about what was going on. Wolf was financially a savvy fixer, a man whom the Nazi hierarchy could rely on to g…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 38:37
Karl Wolff headed
Nazi Party host_asserted
“in the Nazi movement for a polished blonde warrior like Wolf. His business background gave Wolf cachet with the SS where the skills were in short supply. It was Wolf who was put in charge of Himmler's important circle of friends. And if you…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 39:03
Karl Wolff financed_via
Nazi Party host_asserted
“and where they were money laundering money to Germany. It was a select group of some three dozen German industrialists and bankers who supplied the SS with a stream of slush money, most of that from London and New York. Himmler was no busin…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 39:32
Karl Wolff spied_on
Dachau host_asserted
“They were also invited to attend high-level meetings and special Nazi ceremonies. It was said that Wolf took such good care of the wealthy contributors at the 1933 Nuremberg rally that they were pampered more than Hitler himself. The privil…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 40:00
Karl Wolff carried_out_attack
Italian Superpower Corporation host_asserted
“Dulles used his OSS command post in Switzerland to look out for Sullivan and Cromwell's business clients in Europe, stopping the war before their clients' manufacturing and power plants were bombed. And some people argue they weren't bombed…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 40:54
Allen Dulles covered_up
Karl Wolff host_asserted
“In his reports back to OSS headquarters, he framed Wolf in the best possible light as a moderate and probably the most dynamic German personality in North Italy. Although some US and British intelligence officials suspected him as serving a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 42:46
Karl Wolff pardoned
Nazi Party host_asserted
“In person, the German court was impressed by the defendant's influential friends. Found guilty of a minor charge of being a member of the SS with knowledge of criminal acts, Wolf received a four-year sentence. Through Dulles' lobbying effor…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 1:02:02
Allen Dulles saved
Karl Wolff book_quoted
“Life's good. All right. So we're on part five of the devil's chess board in the chapter called Sunrise, which was Operation Sunrise, which gave birth to Operation Gladio. Okay. And we left off towards the end of the chapter with Wolf being,…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 1:20
Karl Wolff demanded_payment_from
Allen Dulles book_quoted
“And it says one of the first actions that he took after he was liberated was to demand special treatment. He told everybody that the U.S. government owed him $45,000 for all of the belongings that was looted from his villa when he was captu…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 1:50
Karl Wolff exposed
Lyman Lemnitzer host_asserted
“By negotiating secretly with the U.S. spymaster, Wolf reminded him, he had saved your honor and reputation at the risk of our lives. Wolf stirred the pot further by sending a similar letter to Major General Lyman Lemitsker, who had worked c…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 58:43
Allen Dulles covered_up
Karl Wolff host_asserted
“And instead of being tried for war crimes, he was put through the denazification hearing in a German court. Dulles supplied Wolfe's defense team with a glowing affidavit saying, in my opinion, General Wolfe's action materially contributed t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 1:01:32
Gustave Gilbert covered_up
Karl Wolff host_asserted
“And instead of being tried for war crimes, he was put through the denazification hearing in a German court. Dulles supplied Wolfe's defense team with a glowing affidavit saying, in my opinion, General Wolfe's action materially contributed t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 1:01:32
Karl Wolff covered_up
Holocaust host_asserted
“rise in his memoirs, he was delaying a judgment that for many had long since become obvious. When Wolf was later confronted with the obscenity of the Nazi leadership war crimes, he would inevitably plead ignorance, claiming he occupied such…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 43:44
Karl Wolff carried_out_attack
Holocaust host_asserted
“Wolf, as Himmler's top troubleshooter, frequently intervened to ensure smooth efficiency at the labor camps. During the Nuremberg trials, a highly incriminating letter written by Wolf would emerge that made it clear how important his interv…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 45:03
Karl Wolff ordered_assassination_of
Holocaust documented
“gas chambers was temporarily halted because of germans military demand for rail cars wolf appealed to a nazi transportation official for help after the rail shortage was successfully resolved wolf sent off a heartfelt thank you to getting t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 45:31
Karl Wolff carried_out_attack
Dachau host_asserted
“in a series of medical experiments on human subjects at the notorious Dachau camp in 1942 and 1943. The research was conducted by Luftwaffe's doctors, who were intent on deciding how to increase the survival rates of German pilots. It was s…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 46:21
Ernst Kaltenbrunner assassinated
Karl Wolff host_asserted
“but it was the cruder and less connected executioner, Ernest Kaltenberner, who would hang for the sins of the SS. Nor was Wolfe in the following year when the doctor's trials began, though he would have been singled out by prosecutors as on…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 48:13
Allen Dulles covered_up
Karl Wolff host_asserted
“Wolfe was watched over by his guardian, Dulles and Gerald Von Slaltz-Gabernet, who made sure that the sword of justice never came down with its full might on Carl Wolfe. Among a few lives saved by Operation Sunrise Peace Gamut, as it turned…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 48:41
Karl Wolff recruited
Eugen Dollmann host_asserted
“On May 13, 1945, shortly after Sunrise's surrender, Carl Wolfe celebrated his 45th birthday at the villa of the Duke of Pistoia in Bolzano, a royal estate he had requisitioned as his final SS command post. Before his lunch party began, Wolf…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 49:08
United States carried_out_attack
Karl Wolff host_asserted
“The soldiers in the white helmets of military policemen burst through the doors carrying machine guns and herding Wolf's children in. Wolf was aghast, protesting indignantly that Alan Dulles, the president's personal representative in Switz…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 51:06
Allen Dulles covered_up
Karl Wolff host_asserted
“Wolf began invoking Allen Dulles' name to anyone that would listen. The question of whether Dulles had promised Wolf immunity from war crime prosecution in return for his Sunrise collaboration would nag the intelligence chief for many years…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 52:03
Allen Dulles pardoned
Karl Wolff host_asserted
“In truth, Wolfe's growing confidence as he successfully dodged prosecution over the following years derived from the fact that Dulles had in fact offered him immunity. Two of the Swiss intermediaries involved in the negotiation would later …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 52:32
Allen Dulles funded
Karl Wolff host_asserted
“Nazi high command would be allowed to participate in West Germany's government. Wolf was even given to believe that he might be awarded an education post. Dulles threw his cloak of protection over Wolf from the very start. The SS general sp…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 52:59
Allen Dulles covered_up
Karl Wolff host_asserted
“But Dulles betrayed his own men, blocking the OSS report on Wolfe from ever reaching the Nuremberg staff. Instead, it was Dulles' portrait of Wolfe as a moderate and gentleman that was sent to the legal team, with a recommendation that he n…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 55:12
Karl Wolff spied_on
Hermann Goring host_asserted
“But Dulles betrayed his own men, blocking the OSS report on Wolfe from ever reaching the Nuremberg staff. Instead, it was Dulles' portrait of Wolfe as a moderate and gentleman that was sent to the legal team, with a recommendation that he n…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 55:12
Allen Dulles covered_up
Karl Wolff host_asserted
“Realizing that the general was still not safe from prosecution, Dulles arranged for him to be diagnosed with a nervous disorder and in the spring of 1946 was transferred to a psychiatric institution in Austria. Wolf knew that Dulles had eng…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 56:04
Karl Wolff spied_on
Soviet Union host_asserted
“The general knew that he continued to have great leverage over Dulles, and if he revealed the immunity deal that the two men had worked out, his career would be over. Wolfe also was privy to another Sunrise dirty secret, the extent to which…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 56:29
Allen Dulles spied_on
Karl Wolff host_asserted
“The general knew that he continued to have great leverage over Dulles, and if he revealed the immunity deal that the two men had worked out, his career would be over. Wolfe also was privy to another Sunrise dirty secret, the extent to which…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 56:29
Karl Wolff exposed
Operation Sunrise host_asserted
“But Wolf did not want to live the rest of his life on the run, hiding out in either Argentina or Chile. He was determined to hold the Sunrise Cabal to their deal. He wanted to be fully exonerated and allowed to regain a position in the new …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 57:23
Karl Wolff exposed
Allen Dulles host_asserted
“Wolf informed Truman that in return for cooperation on the secret surrender, I received from Mr. Dulles and his secretary an explicit promise of freedom for himself and his fellow meritorious SS collaborators on the Sunrise deal. It was now…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 57:52
Karl Wolff spied_on
United States host_asserted
“In his reports back to OSS headquarters, he framed Wolf in the best possible light as a moderate and probably the most dynamic German personality in North Italy. Although some US and British intelligence officials suspected him as serving a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 42:46
Karl Wolff spied_on
United States host_asserted
“and the collective reprisal against Italian citizens, but also for the torture and murder of OSS agents in Bolzano SS headquarters. The feelings against Wolf was running understandably high, even in the OSS, where the SS general was suspect…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 54:48
Karl Wolff traded_network_to
Allen Dulles guest_asserted
“So this sunrise was so important that basically Wolf bought his Galen and Otto Skorzeny's freedom…”
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Mentions (80)
▶ 14:03
Let me go back to Operation Sunrise because it's critical people understand why we rat line Nazis out of Germany. It wasn't just because of Operation Paperclip. They went all over the world, not just to the United States. This meeting with …
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Stay-behind units originally were called werewolf units in Germany under Hitler. In Turkey today, they're called gray wolf units. That is another common denominator. So these werewolf units, as Hitler pushed into the Soviet Union, they were…
▶ 15:00
and Lebed and several other Nazis that were personally trained by Otto Skorzeny, who worked for both Reinhard Galen and General Wolf. So the seeds of what we're seeing in Ukraine today were bore out of these stay-behind units. So this sunri…
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out of the either not being prosecuted at Nuremberg because Wolf and Galen was not, Otto Skorzeny stood trial, but he was found not guilty. Now, this is a guy who trained all of the stay-behind werewolf units in Nazi Germany. So in the afte…
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you know, herder committee and the Marshall plan and everything that everybody knows about. But then the fact that, well, Ellen Dulles was on the Queen Mary too, and he was going over to Italy. And what nobody talks about is, you know, he a…
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Borghese and his men were under the direct command of Carl Wolff, W-O-L-F-F, who later spearheaded Operation Sunshine with Eugene Dahlman. The X-MUS would later also be used against the Allied forces in the South, as well as U.S. Army Range…
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Many remained free. Alan Dulles' most audacious intervention on behalf of the major Nazi war criminals took place in the later days of the war. The story of the relationship between Dulles and SS General Karl Wolf, Himmler's former chief of…
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To begin at the particularly dire moment for Wolfe, on April 26, 1945, less than two weeks before the end of the war, that morning, soon after arriving at the SS command post in a quaint town nestled in the foothills of the Italian Alps on …
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The partisans had established positions around the entire SS compound, a luxurious state that had been seized by the Nazis from the Locatelli family, which was a wealthy dynasty of cheese manufacturers. Wolfe had no way to break through the…
▶ 21:30
who blamed him for the reprisal killings of many civilians in response to partisan attacks on Nazi targets, as well as for the torture and murder of numerous resistant fighters. He fell into the partisans' hands. The SS commander was not li…
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Himmler made Wolf his principal liaison to Hitler's headquarters, where he quickly became a favorite. Hitler enjoyed showing off Wolf at his dinner parties and made sure that he was by his side during war's tense moments when German forces …
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To my great, and I openly admit joyful, surprise, I was ordered to the innermost Hitler headquarters. Hitler wanted me to have me nearby because he knew that he could rely on me completely. He had known me for a long time and rather well. T…
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Mussolini was later quoted as saying, I am crucified by my destiny when he was visited by a chaplain. When his captors asked him why he had allowed the Germans to exact harsh retribution on the Italian people, Mussolini said that it was bey…
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Kessling Ring, who was the field commander of the German armed forces in Italy, and General Wolfe and what they did. Again and again in conversation with General Wolfe, I mentioned the stories of people being tortured and other brutal deeds…
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The bodies were then strung up by their feet from the overhanging girders of a garage roof, where they were subjected to further indignities. When he heard about Mussolini's gross finale, Hitler, who near the end had told Mussolini that he …
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merciless end if he fell captive in Italy. But unlike Mussolini, the SS commander had a very dedicated and powerful friend in an Indian camp. That was Alan Dulles. Alan Dulles received an urgent phone call in his burnt office from Max Weibe…
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There was a great danger they might storm the villa and kill Wolf. The SS general was the key to Dulles' greatest wartime ambition, securing a separate peace with Nazi forces in Italy before the Soviet army could push into Austria and forwa…
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was crucial. Dulles and his intelligence colleagues had been secretly meeting with Wolf and his SS aides since late February, trying to work out a separate surrender of the German forces in Italy that would save the Nazi officers next and w…
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was highly delicate. Exposure would spell disaster for both men. According to Wolfe, during the diplomatic courtship, Dulles identified himself as a special representative and personal friend of FDR. In fact, by negotiating with the SS Gene…
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Dulles had been expressly forbidden by Washington to continue his contact with Wolf. Meanwhile, the SS commander's secret diplomatic efforts both dovetailed and competed with numerous other Nazi peace initiatives coming Dulles' way, includi…
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and tried to cut his own deal. In his backroom dealings with Dulles, Wolfe at times found himself an emissary of the Nazi high command and at other times a traitorous agent working at cross purposes. Wolfe, now surrounded by Italian resista…
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the previous two months on behalf of Operation Sunrise. Dulles had too much at stake to let this happen. Alerted to Wolfe's predicament, he flew into action, mounting a rescue party. Dulles knew that risking brave men to save a Nazi war cri…
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And Dulles helped funnel their money to safe havens outside of Germany, as he had done for many wealthy Germans, including those who remained loyal to the Nazi regime before and after the war. Dulles and Gabernitz were also tied together in…
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After talking their way past the partisan's blockade as well as the SS guard, they entered the villa and found General Wolfe in full SS uniform as if he had been expecting them all along. He offered the rescue party some of his favorite sco…
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It was after two in the morning when the caravan arrived safely back with their special passenger who had changed into civilian clothes for the journey. Gavernich was anxiously awaiting the rescue team's return in the railroad station cafe.…
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It took Wolf several days of high-stakes diplomacy before his maneuvers finally resulted in the surrender of German forces on the Italian front on May 2, 1945. By then, Hitler was dead, the German military machine was all but collapsed, and…
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It did succeed, however, in creating a new set of international tensions that some historians would identify as the beginning of the Cold War. Dulles and Wolf's maneuvers aggravated Stalin's paranoid disposition. While he was still alive, R…
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Of course, that was under the ownership of his close friend, Henry Luce, who could always be counted on to give Dulles good press. He trumpeted Operation Sunrise as one of the most stunning triumphs in the history of the secret wartime dipl…
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good looking. He struck Dulles as a man with the right sort of pedigree. Wolfe liked to present himself as a high-level administrator who was unsullied by the inhumane operations of his government. He was not one of the Nazi party, vulgar a…
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Eichmann sneeringly referred to Wolf as one of the dandy officers of the SS who wore white gloves and didn't want to know anything about what was going on. Wolf was financially a savvy fixer, a man whom the Nazi hierarchy could rely on to g…
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in the Nazi movement for a polished blonde warrior like Wolf. His business background gave Wolf cachet with the SS where the skills were in short supply. It was Wolf who was put in charge of Himmler's important circle of friends. And if you…
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Life's good. All right. So we're on part five of the devil's chess board in the chapter called Sunrise, which was Operation Sunrise, which gave birth to Operation Gladio. Okay. And we left off towards the end of the chapter with Wolf being,…
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And it says one of the first actions that he took after he was liberated was to demand special treatment. He told everybody that the U.S. government owed him $45,000 for all of the belongings that was looted from his villa when he was captu…
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I didn't click the last button, sorry. Oh, okay. All right. So let's wait just a second for it to... There we go. All right. So the first thing he did was demand a payment of $45,000, meaning General Wolfe, for his belongings that didn't ac…
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to his Swiss counterpart, Max Weibel, KW doesn't realize how lucky he is that he is not spending the rest of his life in jail. And his wisest policy would be to keep fairly quiet about the loss of his underwear. He might easily have lost mo…
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that he had abandoned two decades ago to work for Hitler, landing a job in a weekly magazine, courtesy of Alan Dulles, who had helped pave the return to civilian life because during this time, there was an employment ban on hiring former Na…
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He quickly proved to be the man on his way up with a circle of friends he had made as Himmler's banker. Wolf found it easy to establish contacts within advertising departments of leading German companies because they were not denazified. As…
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Success emboldened him. He began talking more openly about his past to friends and journalists. He revealed that 10 days before Hitler's suicide in Berlin, he had promised him to the rank of senior general in the SS, the military wing of Hi…
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when he told a newsletter published by an SS veteran that Hitler had known about and completely approved of Operation Sunrise. Wolf, regarded with disdain by his former SS colleagues for his role in Sunrise, might have been trying to ingrat…
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Eugene Dolman undoubtedly came closer to the truth when he wrote in his memoirs that a fading Hitler, pumped full of drugs during his final meeting in the bunker, gave Wolf a vague sort of permission to establish contacts with the Americans…
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In 1953, he took a lead role in establishing the Reichsreif, a neo-fascist party in 1956. He began organizing an organization of former SS officers. The old ideas came slithering out once more. The demonization of non-Germanic races and the…
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And who better to help him than his American patron? Wolf had stayed in touch with Dulles through the U.S. Occupation Authority stationed in Germany, passing him notes and books related to Operation Sunrise that he thought Alan Dulles might…
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Frenchie, Grombach, who had served in army intelligence. Grombach gathered information from a network of former SS officers and ex-Nazis throughout Europe, peddling it to the CIA, State Department, and corporate clients. But Wolfe knew that…
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was the CIA director. On May 20, 1958, March Wolfe marched confidently into the U.S. Embassy in Bonn and asked to see the two CIA officers he knew. Informed that those agents were no longer there, Wolfe was escorted into the office of the C…
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Wolf, the station chief added, was sporting a tan, which looked as though he had been in the Alps and was prosperous. Wolf informed his CIA host that he wanted to visit the U.S. He wanted to see his daughter, who had married an American, an…
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Chatting with the Bond station chief, Wolf got to the point. He wanted assurances that he would have no trouble securing a visa for his visit. Informed about his old wartime collaborators, informed about his old wartime buddy, Dulles pulled…
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Carl Wolf's name still stirred too much unease in Washington. Moving to the next chapter, rat lines. Carl Wolf was not the only prominent SS officer who was greatly benefited from Dulles' sunrise. In the fall of 1945, former SS Colonel Euge…
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in a filthy raincoat, looking the worst for wear. As they sipped liqueur from glasses, Dolman reflected on how the Cardinal always put him in mind of a delicate alabaster statue. But Schuster, who had worked for Wolfe's SS team on the Sunri…
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Archangel, who had fled from the European, like the Europeans that had fled on the Mayflower. That was the connotation that he was making. He would ridicule the way Dulles had misrepresented himself at their secret sunrise meetings in Switz…
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Dolman's anxieties were heightened when American agents installed two former SS colleagues in his Rome apartment, including Colonel Walter Roth, R-A-U-F-F, who had served as Carl Wolf's second-in-command in northern Italy, because he knew t…
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By November of 1951, Dolman was reported to be in close contact with Donald Jones, which was an intriguing twist since Jones was the OSS daredevil whom Dulles had asked to rescue, Carl Wolfe, from the Italian partisans during the war. Jones…
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used forced labor, just like Japan did, of the American POWs and Dutch POWs and everybody else. And they worked them literally to death. According to records brought to light, Dulles also protected Carl Wolff, the highest ranking SS officer…
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guaranteed de facto asylum to SS officer Carl Wolf, the highest-ranking SS officer to survive the war, and to a collection of his most senior aides. The details of Dulles' deal with this particular Nazi remained buried in classified U.S. go…
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and the SS man with a closet full of Italian suits and the skirt-chasing industrialist with a charming smile, as Dahlman put it, became the core of the group determined to deliver Central Europe to the Western Allies before the Soviets arri…
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Open secret negotiations with Dulles during the early spring of 1945. Talks that would have a destructive effect on sensitive U.S.-Soviet relations later on. Wolf had joined the Nazi party well before Hitler became chancellor. He had served…
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and going to grant him basically asylum from Nuremberg, persecution, blah, blah, blah, because they can't have him on trial. He knows too much. It had been Wolf who lobbied the German transportation ministry to ensure the SS had ample suppl…
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I think my colleagues are not very far from the truth, he continued. If this perception was wrong, he asked, why were his men being excluded from the talks? Unquote. Cardinal Schuster had proposed that Dulles enter these discussions directl…
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The SS delegation, the Swiss intelligence envoys who were serving as go-betweens, and the Soviet agents secretly monitoring the talks, each came away from the talks convinced that Dulles had agreed to provide protection and assistance speci…
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G-A-E-B-E-R-N-I-T-Z, kept the negotiations open and acted with Dulles' cooperation to rescue Wolfe from Italian partisans. The U.S.-British combined chiefs of staff are known to have opened an investigation into Dulles' dereliction of duty …
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into who got saved and who didn't. After the German surrender, SS General Karl Wolf proceeded on the assumption that Wolf's cooperation with Dulles had won him a place in post-war German government. Wolf sought to pick up the political thre…
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Russia's going to come across and kill all of you, we'll help you. Though Dulles was later to deny it, he extended a de facto protection to Karl Wolf and at least two of his assistants, Eugene Dahlman and Eugene Winner, both of whom were la…
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Circumstantial evidence links Dulles to the escape of another Wolf assistant, Walter Roth, whose rise through the SS ranks had been helped by his use of the gas trucks to murder people as a mobile death camp. Allied war crimes investigators…
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to be one of the first trials at Nuremberg. Had Wolf been tried there, he would almost have certainly been sentenced to hang. But the U.S. and British representatives at Nuremberg planning committee said no. Only one U.S. officer would be p…
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would be easier to make than against Wolf, the U.S. contended, even though Wolf probably had more power in the SS than anyone else. After much debate, the Tribunal Planning Committee decided to prosecute Haltenbrunner first, and in the autu…
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major German industrialists, and one trial of 21 leaders of various ministries. Carl Wolf, again, succeeded in wriggling off the hook, despite the fact that he was personally implicated in half of the cases that were brought to trial. Meanw…
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of Telford Taylor and his aides to the war crimes trials, any obvious attempt to derail them would have been a step too far. But Dulles and the emerging CIA could nonetheless make their influence felt directly and indirectly even after Dull…
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ends up at NATO headquarters who runs Operation Gladio at the very same time JFK is assassinated. He was at the first planning meeting of Operation Gladio. That's what this book just said. My mind was blown when I read that. So, going on. I…
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Isn't that nice, that family togetherness? Reunited with his family, he went to Damascus, and from there to South America, eventually to Chile. With Roth's hidden by the Vatican and Wolf in U.S. hands in Germany, Italian officials renewed t…
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that both Dolman and Winter will be removed to Germany under security arrangements as soon as EUCOM, European Command, and the U.S. military could confirm that they'll accept them. The U.S. shipped Dolman immediately. Once Wolf, Dolman, and…
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SS General Karl Wolf claims that in connection with Operation Sunrise leading to the surrender of German forces in Italy, that that had been a promise of none other than Alan Dulles. Wolf alleges Major Weibel of the Swiss General Staff was …
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After talking to Galloway at the Intelligence Group, Neal wrote a memo for file pinning responsibility for his actions on Dulles and the Intelligence Group. When wired back to Murphy at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, that the State Department …
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Definite consideration should be given to favorable aspects of weighing any war crimes in which they've been charged. Wolfe's role in organizing the extermination camps and in administering forced labor and the extensive use of the forced l…
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were more junior SS officers, but they face the same problem. The U.S. government transferred Wolf from an internment camp to considerably more comfortable lodging in a mental hospital and later claimed that he had had a mental breakdown, r…
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contributing evidence to a number of cases against other SS officers to save his ass. British government prosecutors delivered the coup de grace to the efforts to bring Carl Wolfe to justice. They formally requested the U.S. turn over him a…
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and under considerable pressure from the State Department to wrap up activities as quickly as possible because they didn't really want to prosecute anybody else. Taylor readily agreed to transfer Wolfe to the British custody, but the Britis…
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They then kept Wolf in protective custody without bringing him to trial until Taylor's war crime unit had gone. In late 1949, the British brought Carl Wolf before a denazification board in Hamburg, a move that might have been fairly compare…
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Those witnesses included Alan Dulles, Lyman Lemitsker, and General Terrence Airy. They each submitted an affidavit on his behalf. Dulles' senior aide, Jero von Jabernitz, testified in person as a defense witness. The board deliberately brie…
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was in fact a well-known Nazi and SS leader, and then went on to conclude that the time Wolf had served in internment since the war had been punishment enough and he was free to walk away. Thirteen years later, the worldwide public attentio…
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and the rest of the Old Sunrise team seemed to prefer avoiding a public trial. German courts convicted Wolfe of complicity in the murder of 300,000 Jewish people and sentenced him to 15 years in prison, 15 years for 300,000. He served seven…
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Officially, the U.S., Britain, and the Soviet Union formally agreed at Potsdam during 1945 to a tough program of demilitarization, decentralization, and denazification of Germany. That basically didn't happen. The Wolfe and Horthy cases sug…