shall hand you over to the Gestapo, who are used to deal<strong>in</strong>g with such gangsters and crim<strong>in</strong>als—you won’t enjoy their methods a bit.”“I turned to Müller, who was stand<strong>in</strong>g at my side and asked: ‘Who is this excitableyoung officer?’ At this Heydrich really went off the deep end and literally foamed at the mouth; atall events, he sprayed me liberally with saliva. Müller quickly pushed me out of the room and <strong>in</strong>tomy own. Later on he came <strong>in</strong> aga<strong>in</strong> and told me I must not take the matter too seriously: ‘Soup isnever eaten as hot as it is cooked.’”Best concluded his description of Müller by say<strong>in</strong>g: “In my experience, I always foundMüller a very decent little man.” 5He<strong>in</strong>rich Müller was five feet seven <strong>in</strong>ches, strongly built, with dark brown hair, cut high on thesides and good features. He had a small, tight mouth and rarely smiled but his face, and <strong>in</strong> fact his entirepersona, was dom<strong>in</strong>ated by a pair of hooded brown eyes that fixed themselves on people with great<strong>in</strong>tensity. He walked with a slight limp as a result of a wartime <strong>in</strong>jury. Müller was descended fromGermans liv<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> Alsace and he went to some trouble to conceal the family French connections because ofHitler’s strong dislike of the French.Given the position Müller occupied <strong>in</strong> the Third Reich and the role he played dur<strong>in</strong>g its course,the question arises as to why no writer or historian has made any attempt to produce an <strong>in</strong> depth work onthe head of the Gestapo. Aside from several pages <strong>in</strong> two of He<strong>in</strong>z Höhne’s books and some material <strong>in</strong>Aronson, there is almost noth<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> pr<strong>in</strong>t about He<strong>in</strong>rich Müller, and much of that is extremely superficialor <strong>in</strong>accurate. Although considerable <strong>in</strong>formation does exist <strong>in</strong> official files <strong>in</strong> archives, Müller has fallenthrough the cracks for several reasons.Primarily, He<strong>in</strong>rich Müller was a man who neither sought nor encouraged publicity. Unlike manyof Hitler’s satraps, Müller disliked public display and was rarely photographed. Also, Müller was devotedto hard work and results, and preferred to work <strong>in</strong> private.Secondarily, writers are drawn to the dramatic and the flamboyant, not the cold and secretive.Most treatments of historical personages consist, <strong>in</strong> the ma<strong>in</strong>, of wholesale filch<strong>in</strong>gs from previous writers,gotten up <strong>in</strong> new cloth<strong>in</strong>g but without substance. In the academic world, this is not called plagiarism, whichit is, but <strong>in</strong>stead labeled as research, which it is not.Thirdly, U.S. <strong>in</strong>telligence agencies give every appearance of be<strong>in</strong>g s<strong>in</strong>gularly displeased by anymention of the name of He<strong>in</strong>rich Müller.In 1973, West German authorities issued a warrant for the arrest of He<strong>in</strong>rich Müller, hav<strong>in</strong>g goodreason to believe that he did not die <strong>in</strong> Berl<strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong> 1945. Correspondence, still classified <strong>in</strong> US files, betweenGerman legal agencies and their US counterparts <strong>in</strong>dicates unhapp<strong>in</strong>ess, frustration and grow<strong>in</strong>gdispleasure on the part of the Germans and classic stonewall<strong>in</strong>g on the part of the Americans. Portions ofMüller’s US CIC files now <strong>in</strong> Ft. Meade, Maryland, have been censored. None of the documents refused toresearchers deal with immediate postwar searches for Müller but cover a much later period. <strong>The</strong> reasonsgiven for cont<strong>in</strong>ued classification is that their release would adversely affect US national security.A US Counter Intelligence report dated June 4, 1946 and concern<strong>in</strong>g He<strong>in</strong>rich Müller, states <strong>in</strong>paragraph three that: “Reports from the Russian Zone of Berl<strong>in</strong>, seem to <strong>in</strong>dicate that MUELLER shothimself, his wife and three other children on 27 April, 1946.” This date has been circled with a questionmark and is very obviously a typographical error. Another CIC report of May 8, 1961 states that:…“SUBJwas killed or committed suicide close WWII and buried at Standort-Freidhof, Lilllienthalstr, 35, Berl<strong>in</strong>Nuekoell<strong>in</strong>. Allegedly SUBJ body subsequently exhumed for positive identification by allied authorities.”On the same page of the CIC file on Müller found at Fort George Meade <strong>in</strong> Maryland, additional<strong>in</strong>formation is given on Müller that answers a number of puzzl<strong>in</strong>g questions about his purported death.Given as his date of birth are both April 28, 1900 and June 7, 1896. Also given is a home address of PragStreet 10 <strong>in</strong> Berl<strong>in</strong>.<strong>The</strong> Chief of the Gestapo was born <strong>in</strong> Munich on April 28, 1900 and lived at Cornelius Street 22<strong>in</strong> Berl<strong>in</strong>-Lankwitz. However, there was another He<strong>in</strong>rich Müller <strong>in</strong> the RSHA, also an SS-Gruppenführerbut this He<strong>in</strong>rich Müller was Doctor Müller and had once been a high-rank<strong>in</strong>g NSDAP official <strong>in</strong> the stateof Hessen <strong>in</strong> 1933. He was a friend of Dr. Werner Best whom he <strong>in</strong>vited to be Police Chief <strong>in</strong> that state.When Best went <strong>in</strong>to the SS, he brought his friend Dr. He<strong>in</strong>rich Müller with him. It was to avoid confusionthat He<strong>in</strong>rich Müller was called “Gestapo” Müller.5 Best, S.Payne, “<strong>The</strong> Venlo Incident,” London, 1950.
Dr. Müller did kill himself just before the war ended and his body was subsequently found by theSoviets. <strong>The</strong> papers discovered on the body <strong>in</strong>dicated that the owner was an SS General named He<strong>in</strong>richMüller from the RSHA, with the date of birth and home address which are both <strong>in</strong>dicated <strong>in</strong> the CIC fileand <strong>in</strong> the SS personnel records of the Berl<strong>in</strong> Document Center.He<strong>in</strong>rich Müller’s son <strong>in</strong>dicated <strong>in</strong> an <strong>in</strong>terview with the author that his family had been notifiedby German authorities that the body of SS General He<strong>in</strong>rich Müller had been buried and that papers foundon the corpse identified it. Müller stated that he had been told that this body had been dug up, exam<strong>in</strong>edand reburied <strong>in</strong> another area. No papers were ever shown to the family and have never surfaced <strong>in</strong> the<strong>in</strong>terven<strong>in</strong>g years. <strong>The</strong> purported grave of “Gestapo” Müller was opened <strong>in</strong> 1963 and parts of three otherpeople were found <strong>in</strong> it, not a reburied corpse of a s<strong>in</strong>gle person.Aside from considerable activity on the part of German authorities to locate Müller forprosecution, noth<strong>in</strong>g was heard about the former Gestapo Chief until a tabloid article appeared <strong>in</strong> theGerman magaz<strong>in</strong>e Focus <strong>in</strong> late 1995. It described how Müller had fled to the Argent<strong>in</strong>e, was discoveredby Czech <strong>in</strong>telligence agents, drugged, kidnapped, flown to Moscow and shot. Müller’s son was supposedto have assisted <strong>in</strong> this, a statement greeted by the son with a mixture of humor, contempt and an emphaticdenial of the claim.Another important Third Reich personality has been subjected to a far greater flood of tabloidjournalism over the years but <strong>in</strong> the case of Mart<strong>in</strong> Bormann, the overall body of writ<strong>in</strong>g sounds as if itwere part of a therapy program <strong>in</strong> an asylum.It might be <strong>in</strong>structive to consider, briefly, the post-war career of Bormann, the formerReichsleiter and powerful Secretary to the Führer, because it can serve as a comparison between historicalwrit<strong>in</strong>g and journalism. Creative writers assertions to the contrary, the two are not the same and the lattermerely obscures the former. <strong>The</strong> basic facts concern<strong>in</strong>g the fate of Mart<strong>in</strong> Bormann are that on May 1,1945, those persons rema<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> the Chancellery bunker complex made an attempt to escape theunderground conf<strong>in</strong>es of Hitler’s last headquarters. Among these were Bormann, Dr. Ludwig Stumpfegger,Hitler’s last doctor, Artur Axmann, leader of the Hitler Youth and others.<strong>The</strong>y emerged from the relative safety of the bunkers to witness Soviet troops fight<strong>in</strong>g thedefenders of Berl<strong>in</strong>. <strong>The</strong> two Soviet generals lead<strong>in</strong>g this attack, Marshals Konev and Chukov, had bothbeen charged by Stal<strong>in</strong> with the task of conquer<strong>in</strong>g the capital, but <strong>in</strong>stead, attacked each other to impressStal<strong>in</strong>. <strong>The</strong> streets were littered with rubble, the corpses of German and Soviet military personnel, andcivilians who had tried to venture out of their hid<strong>in</strong>g places <strong>in</strong> search of better shelter and food.<strong>The</strong> escape party broke <strong>in</strong>to smaller groups; one consisted of Dr. Stumpfegger and Mart<strong>in</strong>Bormann. Sometime around midnight, Axmann came across the corpses of both men ly<strong>in</strong>g by the railroadbridge at the Invaliden Street. Neither man showed any sign of violence, but Axmann had no time toconduct a thorough <strong>in</strong>vestigation. After the cessation of hostilities, the Soviets had German civiliansremove the corpses <strong>in</strong> the streets and bury them as quickly as possible. A number of persons came forwardlater to state that the bodies of Stumpfegger and Bormann were buried on the grounds of an exhibition hallnear the railroad bridge. Searches were conducted but no bodies were located.Bormann was charged, tried at Nuremberg and sentenced to death <strong>in</strong> absentia and <strong>in</strong> the ensu<strong>in</strong>gyears, a great manhunt for Bormann was conducted, ma<strong>in</strong>ly <strong>in</strong> the media.Catalog<strong>in</strong>g the various sight<strong>in</strong>gs of Bormann would assume epic proportions; but suffice it to saythat the miss<strong>in</strong>g Reichsleiter was seen <strong>in</strong> Munich, Rome, Moscow, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Argent<strong>in</strong>a,Paraguay, Brazil, Chile, Spa<strong>in</strong>, Denmark, Sweden, Portugal, Japan and Panama. He was disguised as afarmer, a Franciscan monk, an export bus<strong>in</strong>essman and the owner of a bowl<strong>in</strong>g alley <strong>in</strong> Buenos Aires. Heescaped from the ru<strong>in</strong>s of Berl<strong>in</strong> on foot, <strong>in</strong> a helicopter, <strong>in</strong> a boat, a floatplane and possibly even on adonkey. He fled to Denmark or the Bavarian Alps at the same time and from there began his world cruisethat so occupied various persons over the years.Dr. Fritz Bauer, a Jewish attorney and former concentration camp <strong>in</strong>mate, became the postwarAttorney General for the State of Hesse and launched a campaign to track down and punish his formerjailers. Bauer was successful <strong>in</strong> locat<strong>in</strong>g a number of m<strong>in</strong>or players but the famous Bormann was alwaysjust one step ahead of him. His favorite phrase, given at numerous press conferences was, “We are nowclos<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> on Bormann and will have him <strong>in</strong> custody soon!”As the police will testify, whenever a particularly notorious murder has been committed, there arealways a number of <strong>in</strong>dividuals with weak m<strong>in</strong>ds who come forward and confess. This is why the policealways keep some details from their press releases and these details simply are not known to the spuriouskillers. A number of such <strong>in</strong>dividuals came forward from time to time to enrich the Sunday supplementsand encourage writers like Ladislas Farago who claimed to have orig<strong>in</strong>al postwar photographs of Bormann.
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