Berlin - The body of Heinrich Müller, who was chief of Hitler's Gestapo secret police and the most senior Nazi thought to have remained at large after the Second World War, is reported to have been secretly buried in a Jewish cemetery in Berlin in 1945.
“Gestapo Müller” was Adolf Eichmann's commanding officer and one of the chief architects of the Holocaust. But his fate had baffled Nazi hunters for 68 years. He was last seen in Hitler's bunker the day after the Nazi leader's suicide. In 1949, the post-war German intelligence service reported a sighting of him in Czechoslovakia.
But on Thursday Germany's Bild newspaper quoted a leading historian of the Nazi era, Professor Johannes Tuchel, who said: “Müller never survived the war. His body was buried in 1945 in a mass grave in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin.”
Professor Tuchel, the director of Berlin's German Resistance Memorial, said he had documentary evidence indicating that Müller was first buried near an airport in Berlin but later moved to the city's Jewish cemetery.
The Independent