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...Hitler, Lieut. General Karl Wolff was the very model of the Aryan SS general. To Himmler, his immediate superior, he was affectionately known as "Wolfie." But to American intelligence officers at the top-level P.W. camp at Gmunden in 1945, the tall, blond, aristocratic Wolff was a fascinating and highly valuable German patriot-"the white sheep" of the dreaded...
Behind his chiefs' backs, Wolff had met U.S. Superspy Allen Dulles to negotiate the early surrender of German troops in Italy, then arrested the Italian-front commander when he refused to lay down his arms. At Gmunden, by alternately threatening and charming fellow P.W. generals, Wolff became one of the Allies' most successful interrogators...
Wolff's cooperation was well rewarded. Though he was technically under arrest, his impressed captors gave him the run of Gmunden, allowed him to live with his beautiful blonde wife and daughters, kept him well supplied with liquor, cigarettes and food from the PX -and even brought in his private yacht for pleasure cruises on Lake Gmund. At Nürnberg, Wolff sat out the trials as a prosecution witness, and in 1949 he was released...
Another royal refugee plans to return to Germany. Princess Victoria Louise, Duchess of Brunswick, only daughter of the Kaiser of Doom, intends to leave Gmunden in Austria for their residence at Blankenburg in the ex-Duchy of Brunswick...
Died. Ernest August, Duke of Brunswick-Liineberg, formerly Duke of Cumberland, 78, at Gmunden, Austria, after an apoplectic stroke...