Editing Karl Wolff (section)

==Arrest and Trial==
	•	Arrest: By the late 1950s, West Germany faced growing pressure to prosecute Nazi war criminals, spurred by public awareness and trials like Adolf Eichmann’s in Israel (1961). In 1962, Wolff was arrested after evidence, including SS documents and survivor testimonies, linked him directly to the deportation of Jews, particularly the 1942 deportation of 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka. His role as Himmler’s liaison and his presence at meetings discussing the “Final Solution” contradicted his claims of ignorance.

	•	Trial and Conviction: Wolff’s trial in Munich (1962–1964) was a significant event in West Germany’s reckoning with its Nazi past. Prosecutors presented evidence of his active participation in coordinating deportations and his knowledge of extermination camps. In 1964, he was convicted of complicity in the murder of at least 300,000 Jews and sentenced to 15 years in prison. The relatively lenient sentence (compared to life imprisonment for others) reflected his cooperation in 1945 and the court’s view that he did not directly order killings, though he facilitated them.