Word: schutzstaffel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...March 1945, this private conduit had admitted an astonishing emissary onto Swiss soil: Nazi General Karl Wolff, commander of the SS (Hitler's elite Schutzstaffel) in northern Italy. Like many of his fellow generals, Wolff had lost faith in a Führer whose paranoia refused to see that Germany was losing the war; like few of them, Wolff was prepared to do something about it. Meeting with Dulles in Zurich, he proposed to deliver every enemy soldier in northern Italy to the Allied cause...