Robert Wolfe

Robert Wolfe (March 2, 1921 – December 09, 2014) was a World War II U.S. Army officer, historian, and retired senior archivist of the US National Archives.

Wolfe worked for 34 years at the Archives, functioning as its senior specialist for captured German and related records.

After the end of the European war, he joined the Office of Military Government in Heidelberg, Germany.

His publications include: Captured German and Related Records: a National Archives Conference (1974) and Americans as Proconsuls: U.S. Military Government in Germany and Japan, 1944-52 (1984).

During that time, he wrote official reports and presented and published papers concerning the history of those records, specifically including reference to the discovery and capture of the Nazi Party records found at the paper mill in Schwabing-Freimann, Germany.

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

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

Shlomo Aronson paid tribute to his memory as "a treasurer of the WWII records at the US National Archives, and a warm, humorous mensch.