EX-SS GENERAL SPARED ITALIANS, COURT HEARS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000300030032-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 24, 2000
• Sequence Number: 32
• Publication Date: September 8, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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German=Born Former 4SS Agent Says Man
Accused in Jewish Murders Saved Lives
Ithans, Court Gears
MUNICH ? (M-A German-
born American who identi-
fied himself as a former OSS
agent said Monday that ex-
SS Gen. Karl Wolff put the
than civilians in 'closing sta-
ges of World War 11.
Gero von Schulze-Gaever-
Wolff on charges of compli-
city in the murder of 300,000
Polish Jews that Wolf f
squelched plans for the
murder of numerous Italian
r political leaders by retreat-
ing German forces as' the
war neared an end.
Among those' saved by
Wolff, the witness conti-
'; nued, was Ferruccio Parri,
premier of the first Italian
" postwar cabinet from June
1 21 to Dec. 5, 1945, and now a
..,member of the Italian Sen-
ate.. , r
Von Schulze - Gaevernitz,
who now lives in Brazil, said
he first came into contact
with Wolff when the de-
' fendant, 64, negotiated ?with
Allen Dulles in Switzerland
over the surrender of Ger-
; Adviser to Dulles
Von Schulze-Gaevernitz
? said'he was an OSS adviser
to Dulles. at~the tinme._ Dulles
,of the U.S. Central Intel-
,,ligence Agency.
In addition to being the
leading SS officer in Italy,
Wolff also was. in charge of
the Gestapo in that country,
headed the personal staff of
Schulze - Gaevernit2
63, testified D.u 11 e a was
skeptical of Wolff's claims
that he could arrange. the
surrender of German armies
in Italy and demanded as
proof of his power that he
release from an SS prison
Parri and another, Italian
underground leader, a Maj.
Usirmiani..
Swiss Delivery
Wolff, the witness conti-
nued, had Parni and Usini-
ant delivered to Dulles in
Switzerland and, saw 'to it1
that lesser known captured'
Italian partisan leaders were,
not harmed by the SS ?or!
Gestapo.
The witness said Dulles
once asked Wclff if he ex-
pected any Allied help after
the war and quoted Wolff as
answering:,
"I have never committed
any war primes and conse-
quently have no reason to
ask for any guarantees of
any ' kind."
.On hearing'this, the
prosecution asked Wol.ffi
why he had said earlier that;
U.S. authorities had given
him vague offers of postwar;
help.
Wolff answered 'that it
may have ; been .Swiss in-
termedlaries.who "perhaps"
had- made suchoffers td him.,
SS boss Heinrich I-limmler?
and was Himmler's personal
} liaison man to Adolf Hitler.'
Wolff says he did not know
until the war ended what.
happened to the Jews Ini
; German-occupied Europe.
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