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Professor Wolff serves on the Executive Committee of the Russian Research Center at Harvard and on the Board of Scholars of Dumbarton Oaks Library and Research Institute in Washington. He is a trustee of Radcliffe College...
Robert L. Wolff, '36, authority on relations between eastern and western Europe, has been appointed Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard. He will assume the post on July...
Professor Wolff is currently studying Byzantium and the West in preparation for a study of Russia and the West. He is the author of The Balkans in Our Time and collaborated in the writing of A History of Civilization...
Specifically, alleged the prosecution when his trial finally got under way this summer, Wolff had been Heinrich Himmler's closest confidant and his chief liaison officer to Hitler, had "supported and guaranteed" their plans to exterminate the Jews, and, between July and September of 1942, supplied the boxcars that took 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw ghettos to the ovens of Auschwitz...
...eleven weeks the trial dragged on, with Wolff, now 64 and ailing, stubbornly denying everything. Last week, impassive, he sat in the prisoner's box of Munich's Palace of Justice while Chief Judge Emil Mannhart took three hours to read the verdict, which found him guilty. The sentence: 15 years. "He was continuously engaged and was deeply entangled in guilt," said Judge Mannhart. "Himmler found in him his bureaucrat of death...