SS GENERAL GETS 15-YEAR SENTENCE

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000300030021-2
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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 24, 2000
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: October 1, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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SS GENERAL GETS
46-YEAR SENTENCE
'.Wolff Receives Hard Labor
for Role in Killing Jews
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BONN, Sept. 3 Karl lrredJ
Nazi officer yet to be tried by;
a West German court, was con-.
victed today on a charge that he
uing his trial Wolff, insisted in the early 1930 s, was living
Extra police were detailed toi glthat he! ad,helped save the as a businessman In West Ger-
guard the rlvhite haired ex Nazi 1lives of t~iou.Rands of Allied many before his latest arrest.' ;
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c n p --- , tc,berg war crimes trials of the from the 15-year sentence.
severest penalty possible underj;top Nazi leaders. He previously was sentenced
West German law. , While serving as chief SS of- to a four-year prison term in
Tight security measures were4ficer in Italy, he participated in 1949 by a de-Nazification tri=
taken at the court today follow-~ clandestine meetings with Allen burial in Hamburg, However, the
ing an annonymous. telephone W. Dulles and other Allied sentence was suspended because
agents to help arrange an early of his confinement by the Al-
call
from someone speaking surrender of German troops. He lies.
ibroken German who said that:, also was said to have entered Wolff, who 'fought with a
an` attempt would be made t,t negotiations,. with ..Pope Pius Hessian guards, regiment In
(free Wolff if he were convieted. XII. World War I and joined the SS
had had a role in the slaughter: troops through these negotia-;
of Jews. He was sentenced to it ' - --- - bons. He also Attempted to con-'.
and a new route was taken to vince the court that his coopera-;
15 years at hard labor. and from the courthouse. Lion with the Allies showed he'
"Wolff, a former S, or Elite" Throughout the trial, which was not deeply committed to'
Guard, major general and thelbegan July 13, the 64-year-old th N,
Tliea court rejected this con
watime liaison man between, defendant insisted that he was tention. The court president said'
Heinrich Himmler and Hitler, ignorant of the Nazi program that In his judgment Wolff was
i, was found by a Munich court to to exterminate the Jews. a deep 'believer In the Nazi ide-
1; have contributed to the nturder, However, the president of the ology and that he.had accepted
Munich court said yesterday plans for the obliteration of the
of 300,000 Jews during World that Wolff, who was on intimate Jews "under the idea that he
War II. ' terms with both Hitler and had to fulfill a historic task,
fi Originally accused of compile- Himmler, "was well aware of setting back all qualms of conI 'ity in the " sayings, Wolff was their murder plans." science."
?found guilty on a lesser charge. Wolff had been kept under ar- Wolff's defense counsel an-
of having helped to provide rail-:,about by the Allied authorities for pounced that he would appeal
g P about four years after World the verdict on the ground that
road cars that carried the 300,-? War II. However, because of his there was "no actual evidence"
000 Jews to Nazi extermination role in helping to arrange the of the former SS general's guilt.
"camps. surrender of German troops in The two-and-one-half years
The Munich prosecutor had northern Italy in 1945, he, es- Wolff spent in custody while
i t ?tl .taped prosecution at the Nurett- awaiting trial will be deducted
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