It ended well for him. After the surrender and occupation of Germany by the Allies, Wolf did not hide from the occupation authorities, as he counted on compensation from the victors. Even at the beginning of the negotiations in Switzerland, he made it clear to the allies that in the future German government he was counting on the post of Minister of the Interior. However, he was soon interned by American troops and in 1946 sentenced by a German court to 4 years in labor camps. In 1949 he was released. It is noted that despite the known losses, Wolf by the 50s of the 20th century. reached the same level of personal well-being that he had during the best years of his service in the SS.
According to Harvard University professor Richard Brightman, A. Dulles’ reward for Wolff’s participation in the negotiations in Switzerland was to save Wolff’s life. It would be fairer to put Karl Wolf as a war criminal in the dock of the Nuremberg trials next to E. Kaltenbrunner. The Americans had every reason for this. However, in this case, Wolf would have spoken and his version of the history of negotiations and capitulation in Italy would have differed significantly from Allen Dulles’s version, which for a long time was considered the main and authoritative one. In addition, Wolf’s potential confessions would seriously undermine the authority of the Office of Strategic Services and the CIA created on its basis, and would also damage the entire complex of allied relations.
Only after the resignation of A. Dulles from the post of CIA director in 1961, Karl Wolf was again arrested, now by German authorities, on charges of facilitating the murder of about 300,000 Jews (deporting them to Treblinka). Karl Wolf denied his participation in the Holocaust and cited forgetfulness. However, on September 30, 1964, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison. In 1971, Wolf was released due to health reasons and died on July 15, 1984.
According to the testimony of the Soviet writer Yulian Semyonov (author of “Seventeen Moments of Spring”) in the afterword to the “Position” cycle: “I recently found Karl Wolf himself, SS Obergruppenführer, chief of Himmler’s personal staff, in Germany, a quite cheerful eighty-year-old Nazi, not in which it has not deviated from the former principles of racism, anti-communism and anti-Sovietism: “Yes, I was, am and remain a faithful paladin of the Fuhrer.”
Wolf is also widely known in Russia thanks to the Soviet television film “Seventeen Moments of Spring” (1973), in which his role was played by Vasily Lanovoy. According to the actor himself, Wolf, through Yulian Semyonov, gave him a bottle of cognac and a statement that Lanovoy was too thin for the film. So, as we see, he even watched a Russian film about himself.
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