Heinrich Müller Gestapo

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Heinrich Müller (28 April 1900 - date of death unknown but evidence points to 1-2 May 1945), AKA "Gestapo Müller", became head of the Gestapo (contraction of Geheime Staatspolizei: "Secret State Police"), the political police of Nazi Germany, and played a leading role in the planning and execution of the Holocaust. He was last seen in the Führerbunker in Berlin on May 1, 1945 and remains one of the few senior figures of the Nazi regime who was never captured or confirmed to have died. Müller was born in Munich in Bavaria, the son of working- class Catholic parents. After service in the last year of World War I as a pilot for an artillery spotting unit, during which he was decorated several times for bravery (including the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class, Bavarian Military Merit Cross 2nd Class with Swords and Bavarian Pilots Badge), he joined the Bavarian police in 1919, and (although not a member of the Freikorps) was involved in the suppression of the communist risings in the early postwar years.