Text below is the first half of the interview for post length reasons. Part 2: https://poal.co/s/History/796279
I understand you don't do any interviews, so I wish to thank you for speaking to me. I only wanted to ask you a few questions regarding the war, and your experiences.
Wolff: You are correct, we live in a time now where I don't speak to anyone but comrades regarding the time of the war. My words get twisted, hostile historians come as wolves in sheep's clothing, so I have learned to be very careful with whom I speak with, lest I am charged with crimes.
You lived through the whole war, what was your experience?
Wolff: I was a desk General for the first part of the war. I was tasked with the smooth running of the general SS and worked for Reichsführer-SS Himmler as a personal liaison to the Führer. I met and worked with many of the important leaders of the Reich, working to insure we would see victory.
Germany is accused of starting the war, by invading Poland who was not a threat to Germany. Can you comment?
Wolff: You must always ask the question “why”, why did we attack Poland, why were people killed, why were there camps, and why did we come up against such resistance. We attacked Poland because Poland put us in a position that we had to protect our people who were left in Poland after Versailles, they were being persecuted and Poland refused to take action. They were a weak-minded state that was being pressured by England to fight us; all we wanted was a land bridge to East Prussia, and freedom for our people living in Poland. The Führer said he regarded Poland as a friendly state until England got involved, telling Poland to not work out anything with Germany as we cannot be trusted.
Those in our government who had ties to Poland tried everything to get the leaders to listen to us, and give us concessions, as we were offering Poland concessions. These requests were met with contempt and bravado. Attacks on our frontier by bands of criminals were not investigated by Poland, and brushed off. Even to the point of claiming we were making this up. We could have allowed this to go on, and waited Poland out until they came to their senses, however the plight of Germans in Poland could not wait, as horror stories started coming from refugees seeking the protection of the Reich. There was hardly a crime in attacking Poland; any nation faced with the same scenario would have acted as we did.
Of course, the Allies use this as the excuse for their war, but other forces were driving them, and Poland was the excuse they needed. I want to add we treated Poland very well after the surrender, we sent in the RAD and Red Cross to help them rebuild. Something not acknowledged today, we only wanted vindication, not conquest. The fact that millions of Poles volunteered to serve in the armed forces, including the SS, came to Germany to work for good pay, and worked with us in every way shows we were not out to destroy the Polish people. The uprisings were more a result of allied agents encouraging the Poles with false promises more than Polish resentment of us. I should also like to say that England declared war on us, solely under the reasoning that we invaded a country they were protecting, however when Russia invaded, they were silent and did nothing. It proves to me that the Führer was right in that England and France wanted a war with Germany, and only Germany, in spite of the numerous treaties they claimed to honor. If people would only have been able to listen and judge for themselves who was the aggressor, without all the propaganda the Allies were using against us, then there never would have been a war.
Was the Lebensborn and Ahnenerbe sinister? I am taught in school Lebensborn was a stud farm for officers, and Ahnenerbe was the study of dark magic to bring evil to the earth.
Wolff: Ha, the victors and their Jewish film directors have had the last 35 years to turn good, necessary organizations into something that looks evil and sinister. Where to begin with this. I gave money to the Lebensborn, as all SS officers were encouraged to do. To understand a little of why it was created, you must understand our history. In the first war almost a whole generation was wiped out, many young Germans did not have both parents, some had none. A million died after the war due largely to the British blockade, and the sickness that followed. The Weimar era was nothing but anything goes filth, morals were forgotten and many babies were born out of wedlock and with diseases.
In 1933 things changed, a new morality was born, one of biblical proportions in which our people accepted a complete change. As more and more men were called to the flag, their wives and girlfriends were left alone. The Lebensborn homes were conceived to give these women a place were they could stay for free when they were with child. Married or unmarried, we vowed not to penalize or shame a woman like in times past for choosing to bear a child. Most of the women were married who just had no support back home, as their husbands were away. Our women were never turned away. Those who were unwed were welcomed, and LB staff counseled her, and the SS Rasse u Siedlings HA the father to insure the child was born into a good supportive family. If this was an unwanted child, it was placed with a German couple who could not bear any. This rarely happened, but LB was always looking out for the welfare of all involved.
I personally inspected the homes and was quite impressed with what I saw. During the war, mothers to be from other nations who married SS men were welcomed, as were mothers from bombed out areas of the Reich. The LB homes provided good medical care, instruction, healthy food, exercise, and a safe place for mothers to be to give birth. They could stay as long as they needed to and were also given help with securing a home and food. The intent was to encourage the SS to be the vanguard of the re-population of our nation and gene pool due to the losses from the first war, and also the current one. Healthy, intelligent children are what every nation requires for its existence, and its cultural advancement. All our national policies were turned to focus on that goal, and the LB homes were to be the beginning of a strong support system for the German mother.
The Ahnenerbe was nothing more than an organization that was like a museum. Those involved were dedicated to the study of Germanic history, and the history of our people in relation to our origins. Those scholars in the Ahnenerbe had the whole world to study, every idea and theory was looked into. Race was a main focus, investigating our early ancestors and where they have been. There are parts of the world where great cities and structures were built, but the peoples seem to lack the intelligence for such endeavors. Every study that was done seemed to suggest the same outcome, a higher race of people settled in areas of the world but did not last, and building lasting testaments to their culture that outlived them.
I should like to add that one topic that has always fascinated me is the notion that these people who call themselves Jews today, have no true achievements. They are a people of the East, who have cunningly learned to manipulate peoples and take their wealth and morals. Our Christian churches, long ago, started teaching that these people are the people of our bible, that in effect we owe our faith and culture to Jews. This is nonsense, and something Marin Luther and others us warned about. The Ahnenerbe was in a roundabout way showing the area of Palestine, Persia, India, and parts of North Africa were concentrations of our people. Our ancestors colonized wherever they settled, building great things, only one race on earth has demonstrated the ability to do these things. So it would only make sense that if God created a special people to be a light to the world, it would be a people who had the ability to explore, heal, invent, and build. No other peoples has shown all of these traits, except for one, and on such a grand stage. I firmly believe the areas of the world now populated by darker skinned Arabs were in fact, home to our people before many moved north into today's Europe.
Did Hitler believe this too?
Wolff: In a way, Yes. In Europe as a general rule it has always been held that the bible was our book, and only our book. It did not belong to any other people; the Creator gave each race a way to honor him. Our peoples became too complacent regarding this and started sharing our faith and beliefs with others, believing this was what the Bible wanted. The Führer was Catholic, and took it as a fact God's people were European, and no other. The Jew being an imposter who was stealing our identity and making it his own. The Führer was religious, that is why he did not drink or smoke, and believed he was sent by the Creator to heal Germany and raise up our people.
Was there anyone in the government that you didn't care for?
Wolff: This is the type of question that is irrelevant, and one that journalists like to play with to make us look like disorganized fools. I choose not to answer that, the reason being in every society there are always those who you will never get along with, NS Germany was no exception. There were those I liked and those I did not, but it had no bearing on our mission. We agreed to not agree, put our differences aside and work towards final victory. Of course when the war was over, this did not hold anymore as everyone was just trying to save their lives from vindictive enemies and many times stretched the truth regarding those they didn't agree with. I hear I am even accused of providing information to the Allies to prosecute war criminals, I am afraid that is grossly over exaggerated. I did provide a lot of information to the Americans, as they demanded, but it was regarding who was in charge of what and who ran what office.
Can I ask you what your thoughts on the Holocaust are?
Wolff: I would never answer this question if I didn't know your aunt, it's a falsehood unparalleled in history. In the Federal Republic, I would be prosecuted under the laws the victors established at the end of the war, for stating my experiences. I personally saw our interaction with the Jews. I witnessed terrorists being executed, the labor camps, and ghettos. In short, Germany did to the Jew what America did to the Japanese, we put an alien people who declared war on us, in camps. The only difference is that America was not being ruthlessly bombed so their inmates escaped the war unharmed. The Allies, killing hundreds of prisoners, for example, bombed Buchenwald; we believed the camps would be left alone since these were prison camps. The goal our government put into practice was to remove most Jews out of our sphere of influence and move them east where they came from. There were small nuances, as some were left alone due to service to the Reich, some of mixed marriage were allowed to stay and even helped us fight. Most Jews though, even if it was in small ways, worked against us, and even aided the Allies when they could. The SD uncovered lots of cells in Ghettos were illegal activity was happening. These Jews were moved to areas where they could be watched, or sent east to camps to be resettled after the war.
The problem for us, is that due to the filth that many of these Jews brought with them, many became sick in the camps. There were several outbreaks that happened where we had to quickly dispose of the dead, ovens were built for this purpose. The allied propagandist had a golden ticket with the photos of these ovens. Towards the end of the war, many camps were left to the enemy, however many prisoners requested to go with German troops, as they were hearing of the treatment of prisoners under the Russians. It was decided to allow inmates to move to the Reich so we could keep using them for labor, they were crammed into camps that were way over capacity. The Allies had knocked out and destroyed our infrastructure so that no food, medicine, or necessities could get to anyone. Our own population was suffering greatly in some areas where basic sanitation no longer existed. The already weakened inmates fell victim now to typhus and other curable diseases, the Allies unknowingly caused the deaths of tens of thousands of these people who we had no intention of harming.
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