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Heinrich Müller

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Heinrich Müller (1900-1945?) was the head of Nazi Germany's RSHA's Amt IV and led the Gestapo from 1939 until his mysterious disappearance at the close of the World War II, on the 29th of April, 1945.

A protege of Reinhard Heydrich, Müller's rise in the ranks of the SS only took off after the Night of the Long Knives on June 30, 1934. As head of the Gestapo, Müller answered only to Heydrich himself, and after Heydrich's death, to Ernst Kaltenbrunner.

Heinrich Müller was an active participant in most of the very worst crimes committed by the Nazi regime, and was in fact in attendance at the Wannsee Conference. One of his direct subordinates was Adolf Eichmann who was one of the main organizers of the Holocaust.

Müller had been assumed dead in 1945, but in 1963 his tomb was opened and found empty. There have been many conspiracy theories about his post-war life and career.


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