Oral history interview with Karl Wolff

Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.566.7 | RG Number: RG-50.593.0006

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Interviewee: Karl Wolff
Interviewer: Dr. John M. Steiner
Date: interview: 1975-1982
Language: German
Extent: 36 sound cassettes.
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ingmar Steiner

Special Collection: The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Ingmar Steiner donated John M. Steiner's interviews with former members of the SS, other Nazi officials, and witnesses to Nazi Germany to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017.
Conditions on Access: No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use: No restrictions on use
: Record last modified: 2022-07-28 18:20:05
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The papers and recordings of Dr. John Michael Steiner which include 1. correspondence, writings, transcripts and recorded interviews, questionnaires, printed material, and collected research materials documenting Steiner’s experiences during the Holocaust and his internment in several Nazi concentration camps, the immediate post-war years, and his career as a sociologist and a scholar who studied the Holocaust and its origins; 2. materials related to his interviews with former Nazis, in particular members of the SS and other Nazi officials, which include audio recordings, correspondence with interviewees and other scholars, original documents relating to a member of the Hitler Youth, original correspondence from Erich Ludendorff, and newsletters produced by Otto Strasser; and 3. extensive correspondence, writings, and research materials about the sociology of the Holocaust, including the social psychology of perpetrators and authoritarian personality traits, as well as materials related to Philip Zimbardo's "Stanford Prison Experiment," about which Steiner lectured and wrote.

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The John M. Steiner collection comprises biographical material, research, writings, correspondence, photographs, notes, and printed and audiovisual material documenting John M. Steiner, his survival of the Holocaust, postwar migration, academic career, research interests in sociology, the Holocaust, and the SS, and publications. The collection is particularly strong in correspondence, writings, and files documenting Steiner’s research into the sociology of the Holocaust, the social psychology of perpetrators and authoritarian personality traits, and his research interactions with former Nazis and SS members. Biographical materials document Steiner’s postwar migration to Australia and the United States, education, academic career, and restitution claims. Schutzstaffel (SS) materials documenting Steiner’s sociological research on SS members. Writings comprise published articles, stories, essays, drafts, speeches, and notes authored or co-authored by Steiner. Sonoma State University materials document Steiner’s professional career there. Correspondence primarily relates to Steiner’s research and teaching but includes some personal messages. Subject files assemble various topics of interest to Steiner and include sections on Otto Strasser, Herbert Taege, and Philip Zimbardo. Photographs depict Steiner and professional events in his life but also include reproductions of Holocaust-era images. The collection includes many of Steiner’s original notes for his research and writings. Printed material covers subjects such as the Holocaust, the SS, sociology, and Czechoslovakia. Audiovisual material has not yet been evaluated but appears to document conversations and events related to Steiner’s sociological research and interests in the Holocaust and the SS.

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