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Heinrich Mueller, head of the Gestapo secret police who was never captured, was buried in common grave in Jewish cemetery, researcher says

Gestapo chief Heinrich Mueller, the most senior Nazi whose fate has until now remained unknown, died in Berlin in 1945 and, in a chilling twist for an organizer of the Holocaust, lies in a Jewish...

Heinrich Mueller was the last chief of the Gestapo and a major Nazi war criminal. His fate after World War II - unknown for decades despite multiple investigations - was confirmed in October 2013 when evidence surfaced that he had been buried in a mass grave in Berlin, alongside Jewish victims, in 1945. Mueller & the Nazi Regime.

Heinrich Müller was at that time the Gestapo operations chief. He answered to Heydrich, Heydrich answered only to Himmler, and Himmler answered only to Hitler. The Gestapo had the authority to investigate cases of treason, espionage, sabotage and criminal attacks on the Nazi Party and Germany

role in Gestapo. …Gestapo—led by Himmler’s subordinate, Gruppenführer Heinrich Müller—was joined with the Kriminalpolizei (“Criminal Police”) under the umbrella of a new organization, the Sicherheitspolizei (Sipo; “Security Police”). Under a 1939 SS reorganization, the Sipo was joined with the Sicherheitsdienst, an SS ...