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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.

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