Oh, merci beaucoup, America 🇺🇸

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The Americans were frightened by the Soviet advance westwards (as was Hitler). They were desperate to find a living high ranking officer to sign an end to the war that would have stopped the Russians. They chose an SS Obergruppenführer close to Himmler, responsible for the deportation of Jews from Italy and the creation of the camps. Without warning most of their allies, especially the Russians, which was one of the main triggers of the Cold War. So, like many of his colleagues, the virtuous Karl Wolff did not go through Nuremberg, lovingly protected by the Americans. American values I guess

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Because that’s all they could find. Yet it was the beginning of the end.