Karl Wolff

Karl Friedrich Otto Wolff (13 May 1900 – 17 July 1984) was a senior German SS officer who served as Chief of Personal Staff Reichsführer-SS (Heinrich Himmler) and an SS liaison to Adolf Hitler during World War II. He ended the war as the Supreme SS and Police Leader in occupied Italy and helped arrange for the early surrender of Axis forces in that theatre, effectively ending the war there several days sooner than in the rest of Europe. He escaped prosecution at the Nuremberg Trials as a result of his participation in Operation Sunrise. In 1962, Wolff was rearrested, prosecuted in West Germany for the deportation of Polish Jews and sentenced to 15 years in prison for being an accessory to murder in 1964. He was released in 1971 and died 13 years later. Provided by Wikipedia