A skeleton dug up here last week is definitely not the corpse of Heinrich Mueller, high Gestapo official under Adolf Hitler, it was established here today. When the remains were exhumed last week, it was assumed that proof had been established of Mueller’s death. It has been believed right along that Mueller faked his own death, escaping after the collapse of Hitler in 1945. He had been responsible for the murder of many Jews and for other Gestapo actions in Germany and in Nazi-occupied countries.
Meanwhile, it was learned here today that the Federal Government, at Bonn, has requested of Ghana that the Accra Government extradite a doctor there, also named Mueller. This Dr. Mueller, found in Ghana, is accused of having conducted experiments for the sterilization of several hundred inmates at Auschwitz. The Federal Government has reportedly offered to exchange for Dr. Mueller a Ghanaian student being held at Hannover on charges of forgery.
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