13 Facts About Robert Wolfe

Robert Wolfe was a World War II US Army officer, historian, and retired senior archivist of the US National Archives.

Robert Wolfe was wounded in both the Pacific and European Theaters of Operation.

Robert Wolfe commanded a recon team and an anti-landmine platoon.

Robert Wolfe was a subject-matter expert on captured Nazi war documents.

Robert Wolfe joined the National Archives in 1961, upon concluding service as a member of the American Historical Association team microfilming captured German records at the World War II Records Center in Alexandria, Virginia.

Robert Wolfe served as archival consultant to the Department of State for the Berlin Document Center and as Special Adviser to Eli Wiesel for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

In 2001, Robert Wolfe wrote a monograph describing the discovery of the Nazi Party's worldwide membership card file by US Army Counter Intelligence Corps Agent Michel Thomas in early May 1945.

Robert Wolfe was one of eight independent historians employed by the Interagency Working Group to assist in implementing the declassification and disclosures under the provisions of the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act.

Robert Wolfe was one of the authors of a 2004 report entitled US Intelligence and the Nazis which was revised and released the following year, 2005, by Cambridge University Press as a book.

Robert Wolfe died in Alexandria, Virginia, on December 9,2014, survived by his wife and two sons.

Robert Wolfe directed that there be no funeral but, that he be buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Robert Wolfe was buried, along with his wife, who died on April 2,2015, on July 10,2015.

Robert Wolfe was among the last of the subject specialists at the National Archives.