Gestapo Chief Reportedly Buried in Jewish Cemetery As head of the feared Gestapo secret police, Heinrich Müller perpetrated some of the worst crimes of the Nazi regime. His fate was unconfirmed -- but now a newspaper claims he was buried in a Berlin Jewish cemetery in 1945.
According to a Berlin historian, Gestapo chief Heinrich Müller did not survive the war, as has been widely reported.
October 31, 2013 11:46 AM
The body of Heinrich Müller, one of the men responsible for the Holocaust and the most senior Nazi figure whose fate was never conclusively established, is buried in a Jewish cemetery in Berlin, according to a newspaper report.
As head of the Gestapo, Hitler's infamous secret police, from 1939, Müller was personally involved in the extermination of Jews and was present at the Wannsee Conference in 1942 when the so-called Final Solution was laid out.
Now an article in the German mass-circulation daily Bild claims Müller has been buried in a cemetery in Berlin's Mitte district since the end of World War II. According to the head of the Memorial to the German Resistance, Johannes Tuchel, Müller did not survive the war, as has been claimed by many, including his notorious subordinate, Adolf Eichmann. "His body was interred in a mass grave in 1945 at the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Mitte," Tuchel told the newspaper.
These claims are backed up by documents that Tuchel has uncovered in various archives, Bild reports. How a prominent Nazi could come to be buried in a Jewish cemetery is so far unclear.
After Eichmann, a key architect of the Holocaust, was captured in Argentina in 1960 and taken to Israel to stand trial, he told his interrogators that he believed Müller was still alive. Documents from Germany's Federal Intelligence Service (BND) apparently show that Western intelligence agencies, too, long believed that Müller survived the war. In the summer of 1949, it was thought he was hiding in the Czech city of Karlovy Vary, and SPIEGEL reported in the 1960s on speculation that he was alive.
Western Intel Was 'Completely Wrong'
"The intelligence agencies were completely wrong," Tuchel told Bild. Tuchel went on to say that Müller's body was actually found in August 1945 by allied forces in a makeshift grave near the Third Reich's Ministry of Aviation.
According to historical documents, the Nazi war criminal was positively identified at the time. Tuchel added that Müller "was wearing a general's uniform. On the inside, his service ID with a photo was in the left breast pocket, among other things."
Dieter Graumann, chairman of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, said he was outraged by the discovery. "The fact that one of the most brutal Nazi sadists is buried in a Jewish cemetery of all places is a distasteful monstrosity," he told Bild. "The memories of the victims are being grossly violated here."
Poster Comment:
This article is total BS. Heinrich Mueller escaped to Switzerland. The O.S.S. sent an agent there to interview him in 1946.
I have the 3 book series, "Gestapo Chief" by Gregory Douglas. During the interview, they asked him about Hitler. His reply was, "You could try Spain." And then he cautioned, "But I wouldn't go there if I were you. You might end up fertilizing an orange grove."
They brought Mueller from Switzerland to America as part of Operation Paperclip. They gave him a rank of Major in the U.S. Army, and he played the piano for Harry Truman.
Mueller was brought to the U.S. because his specialty was Soviet counter intelligence.
The third book in the series shows Mueller as an old man on a hunting trip and carrying a shotgun on the cover.