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Seventy years ago, a group of German army officers led an unsuccessful attempt to kill Adolf Hitler and end the Nazi regime. In Berlin, President Joachim Gauck led tributes at the German Resistance Memorial Center.
German Resistance Memorial Centre
An introduction to the German Resistance Memorial Centre in Mitte located in the former Army General Staff HQ on Stauffenbergstrasse, renamed after one of the leading members of the failed 20 July plot of 1944 and subject of the motion picture Valkarie.
Valkyrie Memorial | Berlin Travel Vlog
Operation Valkyrie was one of the most infamous initiatives put in place by the Germany Resistance in World War II. Claus von Stauffenberg's attempt to assassinate Hitler on 20 July 1944 in the Wolfs's Lair came ever so close to changing history. The site of this initiative is now a memorial centre to the German Resistance. A somber experience, I was able to explore the location on my trip to Berlin.
This vlog was more of a history tour. Here's some of the top sights in Berlin I was able to visit:
0:27 | Flaturm III G-Tower Humboldthain (Nazi Flak tower)
1:14 | Berlin Underworld's Bunker Tour
1:50 | Currywurst at Konnopke's Imbiss
2:57 | Valkyrie Memorial / German Resistance Memorial Center
5:12 | Hitler Bunker / Führerbunker
5:15 | Topography of Terror
7:08 | Balzac Coffee Berlin
7:49 | Burgermeister
8:26 | Fahimi Bar Berlin
9:01 | Trinkteufel
Valkyrie : Heroes of the German Resistance Deutsche Widerstand
An exhibition housing details of the opposition to the Nazis can be found in the former Bendlerblock of the Wehrmacht in what is today called Stauffenberg Strasse, located very close to Potsdamer Platz.
Under the leadership of the Infantry General Friedrich Olbricht, the centre of the military resistance was formed in the Bendlerblock. It was here that Olbricht developed the Valkyrie operational plan into a plan for a coup d'état against Hitler. In October 1943 Colonel Stauffenberg was transferred to the General Army Office as Chief of Staff. His position gave him direct access to situation briefings in Hitler's headquarters, the Wolf's Lair. On July 20, 1944 he planted the bomb there and returned to Berlin.
The bomb went off, but Hitler survived. When news of Hitler's survival spread, the conspirators were unable to take control of Germany. Following the arrest of the conspirators in the Bendlerblock, General Olbricht, Graf von Stauffenberg, Werner von Haeften and Albrecht Ritter Mertz von Quirnheim, all members of the uprising, were executed that same night in the courtyard of the building, by firing squad. A fifth plotter, Generaloberst Ludwig Beck, was offered the option of shooting himself.
I found this interesting article in an edition of Variety from June 2007:
The German government has done an about-face and decided to allow the makers of Valkyrie -- the Tom Cruise starrer about the failed 1944 plot to kill Adolf Hitler -- to use the actual site where the officers behind the conspiracy were executed.
Thorsten Albig, a spokesman for the Finance Ministry, told the Bild newspaper that there had been a change of heart about allowing the filmmakers to shoot at the Bendlerblock, where plot leader Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg and several of his co-conspirators were killed shortly after the bomb they planted injured, but failed to kill, the Nazi leader on July 20, 1944.
The Finance Ministry is responsible for all property owned by the federal government, including the Bendlerblock, which is now a memorial and national German shrine.
There was a change of sentiment at the Ministry of Defense, Albig said, referring to the government department located in the complex of buildings surrounding the shrine to von Stauffenberg -- a national hero.
There was a different feeling about the project, he added. We will take a closer look with director Bryan Singer at the location and, while ensuring that the dignity of the shrine is protected, see what's possible and what's not.
The Defense Ministry had raised objections earlier this year because of bad experiences in recent years with film crews that had set up their equipment -- and catering trucks -- at the location.
United Artists Entertainment said in a statement that it was extremely grateful to the German government for allowing us to film at the Bendlerblock.
Valkyrie -- the code name of the conspirators' plot -- began filming July 18 2007 in Berlin. MGM/UA plans a June 27 2008 release.
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The German Resistance Memorial Center (German: Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand), is a memorial and museum in Berlin, capital of Germany. It was opened in 1980 in part of the Bendlerblock, a complex of offices in Stauffenbergstrasse (formerly Bendlerstrasse), south of the Großer Tiergarten in Tiergarten. It was here that Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and other members of the failed 20 July plot that attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler were executed. More to visit
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Bendlerblock Courtyard, Berlin, Germany, May 15, 2016
Visiting Bendlerblock Courtyard in Berlin, site of Claus von Stauffenberg's execution in 1944, after his failed attempt to assassinate Hitler.
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Site of Claus von Stauffenberg's execution in the Bendlerblock courtyard
GERMANY - German Hitler Resistance Anniversary
Chancellor Helmut Kohl paid tribute on Wednesday (20/7) to Germany's resistance movement against Adolf Hitler at a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of a failed attempt to assassinate the Nazi dictator. Speaking in front of the wall where four army officers who led the plot to kill Hitler were executed by firing squad on July 20, 1944, Kohl said resistance to the Nazis was small and unsuccessful but it had salvaged the disgraced nation's honour. The men and women of July 20 helped Germany find a place once again in the community of free nations soon after the war, Kohl said, referring to the only World War Two anniversary that the nation can mark with undiluted pride. There were not many of them, but they were the best, he said in a 20-minute address broadcast live on television.
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Victims of Nazi experiments laid to rest in Berlin
(13 May 2019) The partial remains of 300 Nazi resistance fighters were laid to rest Monday in a solemn ceremony in a downtown Berlin cemetery.
When the resistance fighters were executed for standing up against Adolf Hitler's dictatorship they were denied graves, so as not to become a rallying point for others.
On Monday a small wooden box lowered into the square granite-edged plot included remains of Erika von Brockdorff.
She was beheaded in the Nazis' notorious Ploetzensee Prison on May 13, 1943 - exactly 76 years ago - for her involvement in the famous Red Orchestra resistance movement.
I'm just happy that there is now this place, reflected her daughter, 81-year-old Saskia von Brockdorff, after sprinkling handfuls of earth into the grave.
We always drove with my sons to Ploetzensee, but that is really a place of execution even if it is not what it was then, and I'm glad I can come here now.
The remains - fragments of tissue - were discovered two years ago by descendants of Hermann Stieve, the former director of the Berlin Institute of Anatomy at the Charite hospital.
Stieve was not a member of the Nazi party himself, but was complicit in their crimes, said Johannes Tuchel, the director of the German Resistance Memorial Centre.
Tuchel has been involved in the investigation into the remains and organising their burial.
Among other things, Stieve reached a deal with Nazi authorities to quickly receive the bodies of victims who had been executed for his research, in exchange for agreeing to leave no traces of their bodies behind.
The Nazis worried that the graves of the resistance fighters could become martyrs' cemeteries, so to speak, and they wanted to avoid this, Tuchel told The Associated Press.
Stieve's main focus was on female menstrual cycles, and he wrote papers on how stress affected the female reproductive system.
The tissue samples discovered by Stieve's heirs were primarily taken from women, aged 20 to 40, Tuchel told relatives and others who packed the small chapel at the Dorotheenstadt Cemetery for a multi-denominational service by Protestant and Catholic priests and a Jewish Rabbi ahead of the burial.
He said the doctor would have certainly known that they did not die of natural causes.
It was clear they were involved in the resistance and were executed for their activities, he said.
Overall, more than 2,800 people were executed by hanging or guillotine at the Ploetzensee prison during the Nazi era.
Not all of the 300 tissue samples, which were on a collection of microscope slides, were identified and Tuchel said the families asked that the names of the identified victims not be released.
Von Brockdorff, however, agreed to talk with the AP about her story after the service.
She and more than 15 others sprinkled dirt into the grave, across from a memorial to some of the prominent leaders of the failed 1944 attempt to kill Hitler, while some placed flowers and said silent prayers.
Tuchel praised the courage of the Stieve family for coming forward with their discovery, knowing it would open new discussion and questions about their ancestor, who died in 1952.
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Assassination of Nazi Heydrich - Prague Crypt Museum of Resistance - Things to Do
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“Operation #Anthropoid” was the code name for the assassination. Three groups of parachutists were sent to the Protectorate to contact local resistance and undertake the operation.
On 27 th of May 1942, the Technical Sergeants Josef Gabcik and Jan Kubis assaulted Heydrich on his regular way to the #Prague #Castle. The grenade, that they threw to his car, injured him badly and he died a week later. Afterwards, the Nazis killed thousands of innocent Czech people trying to find the assassins. The seven #parachutists were hidden in the crypt of the Church of Sts. Cyril and Methodius.
Hiding place in the crypt of the church
The Nazis finally discovered the hiding place, due to one of the parachutists, who betrayed them some information. The #assassins were fortified in the basement, but #Nazis filled the place with water through the windows and shot on them. There are still holes made by bullets visible on the wall. The parachutists shot back, but when they saw there is no chance to avoid being captured, they used their last bullets to end their own life.
The representatives of the Church of Sts. #CyrilandMethodius, who helped the parachutists to hide there, were executed later, as well as many others.
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Museum to be built to honour those who helped Jews during Holocaust
Berlin, 19 April 2007
1. Wide exterior of museum
2. Mid of portraits inside museum
3. Mid of room with door in front of secret room in the workshop
4. Mid of access to secret room
5. Close-up of photo showing Otto Weidt (left) and employees
6. Mid of workroom
Berlin, 30 April 2007
7. Mid of Sylvia Ebel in her living room, pan to flowers
8. SOUNDBITE: (German) Sylvia Ebel, an 80-year-old retiree whose family helped fugitive Jews:
My mother never talked about whether she was afraid. No, I don't think so. We all knew that we would hang from the next tree in case they caught us - or the woman.
9. Close-up of hands
10. SOUNDBITE: (German) Sylvia Ebel, an 80-year-old retiree whose family helped fugitive Jews, about her mother:
She was a humanist to the core, also following her own experience. She didn't actually come from moneyed homes. She knew hunger and persecution, too. And therefore she said that one has to help these people.
11. Close-up of photos
Berlin, 18 April 2007
12. Gisela Jacobius holding documents and sitting down in chair
13. Close-up of menorah in Gisela Jacobius' living room
14. SOUNDBITE: (German) Gisela Jacobius, a Jewish woman helped by Germans during the Nazi regime:
On January 9th, 1943, my parents and I left our home. The door was closed and we were outside, and we didn't know where to go anymore. We had indeed made arrangements, but to all intents and purposes we were outlawed and had no home anymore. We went to several stations then.
15. Gisela Jacobius looking at old passport
16. SOUNDBITE: (German) Gisela Jacobius, a Jewish woman helped by Germans during the Nazi regime:
Compared with the number of perpetrators there is only an evanescently small number of people who helped. Therefore I definitely think that it's good to have an exhibition dealing with this topic.
17. Close-up of passport signed with her then name Zilla Scheer
Berlin, 17 April 2007
18. Close-up of sign German Resistance Memorial Centre
19. Mid of Johannes Tuchel working at his desk
20. SOUNDBITE: (English) Johannes Tuchel, historian and head of the German Resistance Memorial Centre in Berlin:
One of the most interesting results of our research is that there is no typical form of a silent hero, that you have a lot of different forms of helping. This shows that in the Nazi era one was able to help a man or a woman who was persecuted, who was under the suppression of the Nazi regime.
21. Shelf with postcard of Otto Weidt's former workshop for the blind
22. SOUNDBITE: (English) Johannes Tuchel, historian and head of the German Resistance Memorial Centre Berlin:
We are late in our research, but Germany needed time to accept that there were silent heroes. So, we'll do our very best now when we'll open our exhibition in 2008.
Berlin, 19 April 2007
23. Pan down of building exterior at 39 Rosenthaler Strasse with Museum Otto Weidt's Workshop for the Blind, and future location of Silent Heroes Memorial Centre
STORYLINE:
Sixty-two years after the end of World War Germans who helped protect Jews from the Nazis are being honoured with a museum in Berlin.
The Silent Heroes'' museum is to open in 2008 in an old tenement building in the centre of Berlin.
It will be based in Otto Weidt's former workshop for the blind, where several Jews survived in a secret room, and include two more floors that are currently vacant and still under renovation.
Weidt's workshop was turned into a small memorial centre by a group of university students a few years ago and visitors can see the secret hiding room and learn about Weidt and his Jewish workers, who produced brooms and brushes.
The people who helped, she told AP Television, were risking there lives when they helped Jews in these difficult times.
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Controversy as Cruise banned from filming at memorial
July 19, 2007
1. Wide exterior shot of German Resistance Memorial Centre
2. Close-up sign for German Resistance Memorial Centre
3. Pan across yard inside memorial centre, the so-called Bendlerblock
4. Mid shot of memorial plate and wreath for failed attempt to assassinate Hitler on July 20, 1944
5. Close-up of memorial plate
6. Wide shot of Stauffenberg room in permanent exhibition at memorial centre
7. Portrait of Stauffenberg at permanent exhibition
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Johannes Tuchel, Director of the German Resistance Memorial Centre:
If anyone, like you or others, want to film this memorial - no problem. But to rebuild a building from 1944, you can do that everywhere you want. And this is a place where Claus von Stauffenberg and his friends were shot. And for us, it is not a good thing to make once again the execution in the courtyard, because it's a memorial, people died here. It is not necessary to use it as a stage scenery for a movie.
FILE:
June 15, 2007
9. Close-up of wall sign for German Resistance Memorial Centre
10. Tom Cruise and entourage visiting German Resistance Memorial Centre
July 19, 2007
11. Various exteriors of Scientology headquarters in Berlin
12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sabine Weber, Berlin spokeswoman for Scientology:
At the very beginning, I was honestly shocked at the question: can a person in regards or because of his religious affiliation take a certain role or should play in a certain movie, or can be in this profession or whatever. Especially a country like Germany should be on the forefront to protect and uphold human rights in all facets.
July 18, 2007
13. Wide exterior shot of German parliament building Reichstag
14. Mid shot of Joern Thiessen, member of parliament and sect expert of Social Democrats, sitting at desk
15. SOUNDBITE: (German) Joern Thiessen, member of parliament of Social Democrats:
Stauffenberg was a great fighter against totalitarianism, and it is at least alleged that Scientology practices oppression or oppressive methods. I don't know whether this is true, but we are very sensitive regarding the question if this is really the right man for that topic. I would say that Tom Cruise is an actor and should be seen as an actor, and when he gives statements on behalf of an organisation, one has to see what he's doing. And if this organisation does not respect the law or is acting against democracy, if this organisation is trying to influence youth, then we have the laws in Germany - and we will ban it, provided we can prove it.
FILE:
June 15, 2007
16. Cruise walks past photographers in gets into car
July 19, 2007
17. Pan down tabloid newspaper page reporting about Tom Cruise being on his way to shoot film
CRUISE CREATES CONTROVERSY AS COLONEL CLAUS
Hollywood star Tom Cruise on Thursday began the shooting of his new film, in which he plays Germany's most famous anti-Hitler plotter, amid controversy over the actor's belief in Scientology.
Cruise, one of Scientology's best-known adherents, plays Colonel Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg - the aristocratic army officer executed after a failed attempt to assassinate Hitler in 1944 - in director Bryan Singer's new film Valkyrie.
But the German government has banned the production from filming in the Bendlerblock, the courtyard at a former German general staff headquarters in Berlin, where Stauffenberg worked and where he was executed by firing squad in the courtyard.
The yard forms part of what is now the German Resistance Memorial Centre.
A government spokesman said on Thursday that permission had been granted to film in all locations, except one: the Bendlerblock.
The spokesman said this was because they didn't want the dignity of the place to be violated.
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Kreuzberg, Berlin: 20 years of May 1st resistance (English version). 4 (of 12)
20 years of May 1 demonstrations, Kreuzberg, Berlin. English language version. Sound quality variable/ sometimes awful but is an important part in socialist history. Kreuzberg in east of West Berlin had been ignored as was right beside wall, and became a populated by immigrants and radical politicised squats. Now as is in centre of reunified Berlin has been pressure to gentrify area and squats been largely cleared by police, but not without resistance! Original German version available at: ( divx video file ).
German activists apologise for using Holocaust victims remains in anti-Nazi installation - News 247
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For any copyright, please send me a message. The Centre for Political Beauty (ZPS) that consists of political artists opened the installation meant to fight far-right extremism on Monday outside Berlin’s Parliament building. The installation was called a “pillar of resistance”. The installation is the size of a large oil drum and sparked outrage after the activists claimed they contained the dug-up remains of Holocaust victims unearthed from 23 sites near Nazi death and concentration camps. The Jewish community responded with fury, including those from the International Auschwitz Committee. Jewish tradition dictates that the remains should stay in their original graves, despite the stunt itself being branded disrespectful. Christoph Heubner from the Auschwitz Committee told Fox News: “Some of the survivors told me ‘My beloved family members were carted so much across Europe during the deportations — why can’t they just be left in peace now?’.” The ZPS apologised and wrapped the installation in opaque black plastic to cover up the visible contents. They said in a statement on their website: “We want to apologise sincerely to those affected, the survivors and their relatives, whose feelings we hurt. “In particular, we want to apologise especially to Jewish institutions, associations, and individuals who see our work as disturbing or touching the peace of the dead according to Jewish religious law.” Six million Jews were murdered by the Nazis. Many of the dead were transported around Europe to be killed in death camps such as Auschwitz, Sobibor, and Treblinka in Poland. The news comes after sick vandals scrawled Nazi swastikas on the graves of British and Commonwealth servicemen in Israel in a disgusting act of vandalism in October. Almost every headstone of the fallen who served in World War 1 had been heartlessly defaced overnight with red spray paint, with some having been kicked over at the cemetery in Hafia. Staff were horrified when they arrived in the morning to discover by the despicable act. Shocking images show blood red paint used on the quant headstones, with around 30 having been kicked over. Trending Many of the wrecked graves are in the Jewish area of the cemetery. Police have launched an investigation. A spokesman for the War Grave Commission called the vandalism “hugely distressing”. They added that their teams had already started work on removing the graffiti. The spokesman said: “The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is dismayed by an act of vandalism to Haifa War Cemetery in Israel, in which slogans and graffiti were spray-painted across many of the headstones. “The incident has been reported to the authorities and CWGC staff are on site to remove the graffiti and restore the cemete
Gestapo chief Heinrich Mueller 'buried in Jewish cemetery'
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Could a Jewish memorial site in Berlin be the burial place for the head of the Gestapo who disappeared after World War II?
There are claims from a German historian in a tabloid newspaper that Heinrich Mueller, who ran the Nazis' secret police, did not escape the fall of the Third Reich as was rumoured.
Professor Johannes Tuchel, head of the German Resistance Memorial Centre, says Mueller died in Berlin where he ended up in a mass grave in what had been a Jewish cemetery in Grosse Hamburger Strasse.
Destroyed by the Nazis during the war, it is now a memorial site.
He (Mueller) was responsible with Himmler, Hitler and Heydrich up to 1942 for a lot of mass crimes. He was deeply involved in the Holocaust, he was a member of the Wannsee Conference in 1942 and he was also responsible for the mass killings of Soviet prisoners of war, Tuchel said.
Senior Nazis used the Wannsee Conference to plan the implementation of the extermination of the Jews.
After the war, various reports said the Gestapo chief had either died in Berlin, or that he had escaped to ex-Czechoslovakia or South America.
The historian says he found new identity documents showing the Gestapo chief did indeed perish in the German capital during the final days of the war in 1945.
He also re-examined evidence from a grave-digger after the war who remembered burying a man in a general's uniform.
A prominent Nazi hunter, Efraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, has said that only DNA evidence will provide proof of what happened to Mueller.
Germany's main Jewish federation, the Central Council of Jews, issued a statement saying that a brutal Nazi buried in a Jewish cemetery was an insult to the memory of the victims.
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The White Rose: German Nazi Resistance Movement
The White Rose was a group of a half dozen young adults that formed a passive resistance movement against the Nazi dictatorship in Germany in 1943. For distributing seditious and defeatist propaganda against the National Socialists, they were interrogated by the Gestapo, tried in a kangaroo court, and quickly executed by beheading. The first leaflet they printed was interesting in that it scored the Nazi's for being Atheists, and used a lecture by the poet Friedrich Schiller on Sparta and its creator Lycurgus.
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The German Resistance Museum in Berlin houses the documents, photos and evidence connected to German resistance to Adolph Hitler. Yo can stand in the Bendlerblock offices of the German patriots that fought Hitler on behalf of the people. This complex served as the HQ of the German Reserve Army.
Hitler murdered 6 million Jews but he also caused the killing of 9 million good Germans. This is a must see when you're in Berlin. The real lesson is to beware of politicians that promise you everything and then do government business in secret.
American courts are getting closer to the Der Volksgirichthof every day. What's past is prologue. This was all shot on a Flip Camera that cost less than $200.00
Former head of Nazi Gestapo Heinrich Mueller 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.
Heinrich Mueller Photo: Heinrich Mueller led the Nazi secret police and played a major role in the Holocaust. (Source: Holocaust Research Project)
From my point of view, all the mysteries around Heinrich Mueller are solved, he said at the German Resistance Memorial Centre in the defence ministry in Berlin, where German officers who tried to overthrow Hitler in 1944 were executed.
The historian was investigating one massacre ordered by Mueller when he came across documents about Mueller's demise.
He re-examined evidence from a grave-digger after the war, in then communist East Germany, who remembered burying a man in a general's uniform in Berlin-Mitte Jewish Cemetery in 1945.
The East German police were not interested at the time but Professor Tuchel traced the documents and military decorations found on the body to archives in Berlin and crossed that with data from German intelligence and the US Central Intelligence Agency.
He concluded that Mueller was dead and traced the corpse to the historic Jewish cemetery dating from the 17th century, where the Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn was also buried.
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.
'Insult to the memory of the Holocaust victims'
Dieter Graumann, chairman of the Central Council of Jews, said in a statement it was in outrageously bad taste that a brutal Nazi sadist should be buried in a Jewish Cemetery.
It's an insult to the memory of the victims, he said.
But since Jewish religious law forbids exhumations and it would be difficult to identify one body among the thousands buried there, an air of mystery may linger over Mueller.
As hands-on operational head of the Gestapo, Mueller reported first to Reinhard Heydrich, one of the main architects of the Holocaust, until his assassination in Prague in 1942, and then to Heinrich Himmler, head of the paramilitary SS.
Born in 1900 and decorated in World War I, Mueller became a policeman before Heydrich recruited him to the SS and Gestapo.
He attended the 1942 Wannsee Conference which laid out the final solution - the plan to exterminate the Jews.
Professor Tuchel described Mueller as a bureaucrat who, from behind his desk, was responsible, with Himmler, Hitler and Heydrich for a lot of mass crimes, was deeply involved in the Holocaust, attended the Wannsee conference and was also responsible for the mass killings of Soviet prisoners of war.
Legends don't die and if someone says tomorrow he has seen Mueller in the Arctic, I won't contradict it, Professor Tuchel said.
But historical study and speculation are very different things.