The Personal Staff of the Reich Leader of the SS (Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer-SS) was an SS headquarters agency established in 1933 by Heinrich Himmler to serve as a personal office coordinating various activities and projects under the direct supervision of the Reichsführer-SS.
From 1933 until 1942, the office was headed by Karl Wolff who would eventually become an SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS. Wolff's day to day activities involved overseeing Himmler's schedule and serving as a liaison with other SS offices and agencies insofar as conveying the wishes of the Reichsführer to all branches, offices, and subordinated units within the SS.
Himmler also established several special project teams under the authority of his personal office. This included the staff of the Wewelsburg castle as well as several archeology and anthropology teams which explored the world in search of ancient relics and to confirm such ancient legends as the myth of Atlantis and the existence of the Yeti.
The exact role that Himmler's personal staff played in the Holocaust has been a subject of great debate with Karl Wolff himself attesting that the personal staff were little more than desk bound paper pushers who had little to nothing to do with the atrocities committed by the SS. However, given that most of Himmler's wishes and orders were distributed by his personal staff, it remains highly doubtful that Wolff and his office were unaware of what was occurring in Nazi Germany.
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