Robert Wolfe Robert Wolfe ( born March 2 , 1921 ) is a former World War II U . S . Army officer who fought in both the Pacific and European Theaters of Operation . He commanded a recon team and also an anti - landmine platoon . He is a retired senior archivist of the US National Archives and an expert on captured Nazi war documents . Wolfe worked for 34 years at the Archives , functioning as its senior specialist for captured German and related records . Military career . He received head wounds in both theaters . While recovering from his first wound he served in a training cadre in Ohio . After receiving his second head wound in France he was assigned to the Office of Military Censorship in Paris , France . After the end of the European war he joined the Office of Military Government in Heidelberg , Germany . At first his duties were with the prosecutors ' office for the Nurnberg War Crimes trials . After the trials ended he worked with U . S . efforts to rebuild the German civilian government . The office manager in 1947 was Ingeborg Edith Kirch . She and Wolfe were married in 1948 before leaving Germany for the U . S . They returned to Manhattan , New York City , where Robert completed his education at Columbia University . While working on his doctorate he taught history and political science at Brooklyn College . NARA career . He 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 . Berlin Document Center . Wolfe also served as archival consultant to the Department of State for the Berlin Document Center ( BDC ) and as Special Adviser to Eli Wiesel for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum . 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 ) . As archival consultant to the Department of State for the BDC from 1968 to 1994 , Wolfe was the chief American negotiator for the return to the West German government of original captured Nazi Party personnel records assembled by the victors at the BDC . 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 . One such publication was a " A Short History of the Berlin Document Center " , written as a Preface to " The Holdings of the Berlin Document Center : A Guide to the Collections " ( BDC , Berlin , 1994 ) . 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 . Interagency Working Group . Wolfe was one of eight independent historians employed by the Interagency Working Group ( IWG ) to assist in implementing the declassification and disclosures under the provisions of the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act ( NWCDA ) . The IWG had been established to oversee the review of Federal agency records under consideration for declassification . These historians served as " ex officio " members of the IWG and were involved in all aspects of the IWG ' s work with German and Japanese Imperial war records in order to comply with the " largest congressionally mandated declassification project in U . S . history " . The eight million pages of material declassified by the IWG under the NWCDA added significantly to the publicly available information about Nazi war crimes , collaborators , and the lives of selected criminals following the war . 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 . Among the senior Nazis intensely sought by the Allies was Heinrich Müller ( Gestapo ) , who was head of the Gestapo . No arrest was reported ; no body was identified . Both the Soviets and the West wanted to interrogate him about many aspects of the war . Wolfe and three other historians analyzed what evidence was available . Their conclusion , “ The Mystery of Heinrich Müller : New Materials from the CIA , ” " Holocaust and Genocide Studies " published in 2001 , was that Müller had been killed in Berlin as the war drew to a close . The expertise of the historians in the searching process and their resulting analysis of the records was a major contribution to public understanding of WW II war crimes and the involvement of U . S . agencies relating to those charged or suspected of war crimes .