Long-sought Nazi Gestapo chief Heinrich Mueller died in Berlin, researcher says
October 31, 2013 / 2:29 PM / AP
BERLIN It was one of the great remaining mysteries surrounding the final days of World War II - what happened to Heinrich Mueller, the head of the Gestapo secret police and the highest-ranking Nazi never to have been captured or located.
But a leading German researcher said Thursday he has uncovered historical documents indicating Mueller never made it more than a few hundred meters (yards) from Hitler's bunker in downtown Berlin and was eventually buried in a common grave in a Jewish cemetery destroyed by the Nazis.
Though Mueller's body hasn't been found, Johannes Tuchel, the director of Berlin's German Resistance Memorial Center, said the evidence he uncovered is "clear-cut."
He said that, according to a death certificate he found, Mueller died in the final days of the war in 1945 near the Luftwaffe headquarters.
Tuchel said other evidence shows that about three months after the end of the war Mueller's body was found by a work crew cleaning up corpses and buried along with about 3,000 others in a communal grave on the site of a Jewish cemetery that the SS had destroyed in 1943.
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None of these people have ever read Gestapo Chief books by Gregory Douglas. Mueller escaped to Switzerland at the end of the war. U.S. representatives went there in 1946 to interview him. To find out more, get the books.