Head Of Nazi Gestapo Buried in Jewish Cemetery

As head of the feared Gestapo, Heinrich Mueller was the highest ranking Nazi never to be traced after World War II, but now a German historian is convinced he has found his grave - in a Jewish cemetery.

Mueller, who ran the German secret police under the Nazis before and during World War II, was last spotted in Adolf Hitler's bunker in Berlin the day after the Nazi leader committed suicide in 1945.

He was heard to say he would never let himself be captured by the Russians, but US and British investigators hunting fugitive Nazis after the war found no conclusive evidence that Mueller had died in the fall of Berlin. Nor could the Nazi hunters determine if he had escaped to South America as several other top Nazis did.

Now Professor Johannes Tuchel says he has found proof that Mueller did indeed die in Berlin in 1945, was first buried in a provisional grave in a garden in Luftwaffe headquarters and then was consigned to a mass grave in a Jewish cemetery in the city.
The cemetery, which is now a Jewish memorial, was desecrated by the Nazis and became the site of 16 mass graves for more than 2,700 people who died in Allied air raids and the fall of Berlin.