Investigators today dug up a skeleton in a grave marked “Heinrich Mueller”-Hitler’s Gestapo chief, the West German prosecutor’s office announced. The bones were exhumed “to make sure they are Mueller’s.”
The Gestapo chief was assumed to have died in Berlin in the final turbulent days of May 1945. The prosecutor’s office said an investigation was under way for some time into Mueller’s role in the murder of Jews and other Gestapo actions in Germany and Nazi-occupied countries.
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