Postwar Historian
At war's end Wulf remained in Poland, and was from 1945 to 1947 executive member of the Central Jewish Historical Commission. In the summer of 1947 he moved to Paris and worked for the Centre pour l'Histoire des Juifs Polonais. In 1952 Wulf moved to Berlin. Wulf published many books about the Third Reich, among them biographies of Heinrich Himmler and Martin Bormann.
Wulf was honored with the Leo Baeck Prize (1961), the Carl von Ossietzky Medal (1964), and an honorary doctorate from the Free University of Berlin.
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