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IntroductionIn the early morn<strong>in</strong>g hours of September 25, 1963, a grave was opened <strong>in</strong> the West Berl<strong>in</strong>Kreuzberg military cemetery and the contents removed for forensic exam<strong>in</strong>ation. <strong>The</strong> marker <strong>in</strong>dicated thatthe occupant of the grave was He<strong>in</strong>rich Müller, born April 28, 1900, and killed <strong>in</strong> the street fight<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>Berl<strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong> 1945 when the Soviet Army seized the German capital. <strong>The</strong> memorial stone did not <strong>in</strong>dicate thatMüller had been an SS-Gruppenführer and a Lieutenant General <strong>in</strong> the German Police and that s<strong>in</strong>ce 1935,was the head of the German Gestapo or the Secret State Police.<strong>The</strong> exhumation had been requested by the West German Ludwigsburg Center that dealt with ex-<strong>Nazis</strong> sought for prosecution. This Center had <strong>in</strong>formation that Müller was not dead and was, <strong>in</strong> fact,ga<strong>in</strong>fully employed by a foreign government. One of the first steps <strong>in</strong> prov<strong>in</strong>g this was to ascerta<strong>in</strong> whetherthe corpse <strong>in</strong> the grave was that of He<strong>in</strong>rich Müller, who had been issued a death certificate from the DeathBureau of Berl<strong>in</strong>-Center numbered 11 706/45.A subsequent pathological exam<strong>in</strong>ation proved that there were the rema<strong>in</strong>s of three different men<strong>in</strong> the grave, none of whom were He<strong>in</strong>rich Müller.<strong>The</strong> man be<strong>in</strong>g sought was the son of a m<strong>in</strong>or official, had completed a primary school education,had taken technical tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> aircraft eng<strong>in</strong>es and <strong>in</strong> June of 1917 had jo<strong>in</strong>ed the German Army. Becauseof his background, after his prelim<strong>in</strong>ary tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g, Müller was assigned to Flieger Ausbildung Abteilung 287<strong>in</strong> April of 1918. In the seven months rema<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g before the war ended, Müller was promoted to NCO <strong>in</strong>August of 1918 and won the Iron Crosses First and Second Class. He was also awarded the Bavarianpilot’s badge and after <strong>in</strong>jur<strong>in</strong>g his leg <strong>in</strong> an aircraft accident, the retired Bavarian pilot’s badge. Müllerserved on the Western Front throughout the war.When the war was over, Müller jo<strong>in</strong>ed the Munich Police <strong>in</strong> 1919 as a junior assistant. He passedhis entrance exam<strong>in</strong>ation and became a police officer. He was promoted to Police Secretary <strong>in</strong> 1929 andwas <strong>in</strong> Section VI of the Bavarian State Police, a unit that dealt with Communist activity. In 1934, Müllerand a number of his associates were transferred to the Gestapo <strong>in</strong> Berl<strong>in</strong> and jo<strong>in</strong>ed the SS as a Sturmführeron April 20, 1934. In 1935, Müller was head of Department II (Gestapo). In 1936, he was head of theGestapo division of the headquarters of the Security Police (Sicherheitspolizei). In 1937, he was promotedto senior police official (Krim<strong>in</strong>alrat) and <strong>in</strong> 1939, to the rank of Reichskrim<strong>in</strong>aldirektor or Director ofPolice.His SS promotions were:SS-Obersturmführer on July 1, 1934,SS-Sturmhauptführer on January 30, 1935,SS-Sturmbannführer on April 20, 1936,SS-Obersturmbannführer on November 9, 1936,SS-Standartenführer on January 30, 1937, SS-Oberführer on April 20, 1939,SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der deutschen Polizei on December 12, 1940andSS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der deutschen Polizei on November 9,1941. 1<strong>The</strong> organization that Müller controlled, the Secret State Police, had been <strong>in</strong>stituted by HermannGör<strong>in</strong>g as M<strong>in</strong>ister President of Prussia <strong>in</strong> 1933 but was acquired by He<strong>in</strong>rich Himmler as part of hisempire build<strong>in</strong>g. <strong>The</strong> numerous changes, additions, absorptions and expansions of the Gestapo dur<strong>in</strong>g thecourse of its existence would fill a volume, because like Himmler, Müller was also an empire builder.Although on Müller’s orders, most of the Gestapo records were destroyed <strong>in</strong> 1945, it can beapproximated that the entire personnel roster of the Gestapo numbered 25,000 with a much larger butundeterm<strong>in</strong>ed number, of V agents or Vertrauensleute, voluntary and paid <strong>in</strong>formers. In 1943, when thearmy Intelligence system, the Abwehr, was broken up due to its poor performance, Müller managed toacquire its counter-<strong>in</strong>telligence department. Although Hitler had ordered <strong>in</strong> June 1941 that the army was tobe the sole radio <strong>in</strong>terception agency, Müller moved <strong>in</strong>to this field as well and by the end of the war, wasrunn<strong>in</strong>g an extensive radio <strong>in</strong>telligence department that specialized <strong>in</strong> “playback” or the turn<strong>in</strong>g of enemyagents to feed their former employers false <strong>in</strong>formation and locate other agents arriv<strong>in</strong>g or <strong>in</strong> place.<strong>The</strong> Gestapo was renowned for its excellent fil<strong>in</strong>g system which permitted very close observationof the population. <strong>The</strong> Germans have always required the use of <strong>in</strong>ternal passports and required its citizensto register their current addresses and their places of employment so the Gestapo had less difficultyma<strong>in</strong>ta<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g its control. <strong>The</strong> Gestapo also ma<strong>in</strong>ta<strong>in</strong>ed telephone <strong>in</strong>terdiction facilities and watched themails. <strong>The</strong>se methods are not unique to Germany or the Gestapo but were more prevalent and pervasive

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