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Q g THURSDAY. OCTOBER 31. 13 MKU1-OKU .MAIL TH1BUNE. WEUFORD. OREGON Bones Eiot Those of Mueller, West Berliners Claim By RICHARD H. GROWALD United Press International FRANKFURT (UPI) -Find, ing the wrong bones in the Ber lin Brave of Gestapo chief Hein- rich Mueller is the latest dead end in the hunt for Adolf Hit ler's missing lieutenants. When they recently dug under the tombstone marked "To our beloved father, Heinrich Muel ler." West Berlin authorities hoped to find proof to lay the ghost of one of those top Nazis who may have escaped when the Third Reich crumbled 18 years ago. Instead, they found bones from three skeletons and none identified as those of Mueller, the shadowy ex-Munich detec- tive who became the late Adolf Eichmann's boss in the slaugh ter of 7 million persons. Their findings disappointed but did not surprise the diggers. 'Hangman' Eichmann was run to ground in Argentina 15 years after Nazi Germany ten, Later Richard Baer, final conv mandant of the Auschwitz death camp in which 2 million per sons perished in gas ovens, was uncovered working as a wood chopper in a north German forest. Walter Rauff, the former SS f elite guard) general who in vented the mobile gas chamber and who directed Nazi security police terror in Italy, has been tracked down in Chile. SS Chief Heinrich Himmlcr himself lasted only 16 days be fore British troops caught him dressed in a private's uniform and eye-patch after war's end. But the most-wanted list of maj or Nazi offenders still is long, despite nearly two decades of a world wide game of hide and seek. Includes Doctors The list includes: Dr. Josef Mengele, who be came known as Auschwitz's "angel of death" because of his round-the-clock work in devis ing new "scientific" methods of killing Jews. He is especially remembered fnv a chemical in jection he used to kill Jewish children. The onetime family doctor was last said to be wear ing a goatee and ministering to primitive head hunters in the malaria-infested Matto Grosso district of Brazil. There is a $5, 000 price on his head. Alois Brunncr, the former Eichmann aide who bossed much of the shipping of Eu rope's Jews to the death camps. NAZI LIST STILL LONG Despite a hunt of almost two dec ades, the most wanted list of major Nazis is still long. Latest dead-end in the hunt for Hitler's missing lieutenants was find ing the wrong bones in the alleged grave of Gestapo Chief Heinrich Mueller. Photo shows Mueller in his SS unilorm dur ing the war. The stone lists dates. (UPI) German authorities report him hiding somewhere in the Middle East. Dr. Horst Schumann, who carried out the Nazi program of "purifying the Aryan race" by killing thousands of mentally and physically handicapped persons. He last was reported performing some sort of tropi cal pennance, doctoring natives in the backwoods of Ghana. High On List Brunncr and the two "devil doctors" rank above such newly- found and imprisoned Nazis as Wilhelm Boger, reputed inven tor of torture devices, Oswald Kaduk. who allegedly picked out 40 concentration camp chil dren and burned them alive, and Auschwitz official Frank Hoffman, accused of trampling a captured general to death and drowning a priest by holding the cleric s head under water. But the three still rank below the biggest names on the list of the ones who possibly got away Mueller and Martin Bormann- the scar-faced last deputy to Hitler. Muller and Bormann, Hitler's do-it-all chief assistant, joined the missing at the same place and almost at the same time. They were with Der Fuehrer in Hitler's fantastic underground bunker in embattled Berlin at the end of April, 1945. Russian "Stalin Organ" rock ets rained on the ground above. Red army soldiers had smashed tnrougn lunatic Nazi suicide squads to within a block of the bunker. Hitler, nibbling vege- moving photographs and then ' fled with false papers. Such a j ruse, for example, enabled Eich- j mann to reach Argentiana. One of the Gravediggcrs, Wal ter Luders, now 71, says he is sure the body was Mueller's. "I pulled an identity card from his uniform pocket and the pic ture on it matched his features," Lueders testified at the latest inquiry. But there is no other record of the photograph-bearing card. Nevertheless, the alleged body of the anti-semictic mass killer was buried, ironically, in an old Jewish cemetery near the ruined Hitler bunker. Records show it was moved Sept. 17, 1945, to the old Garrison cemetery where the disinterment took place re cently. West Berlin authorities say the body could have been mixed up in a mass grave at the Jew- tarian goodies and raging at the German people for "betraying" him, was settling final scores. ; Mueller thought it a fine time to get out. Last Seen al Trial Mueller's last recorded ap pearance was at the April 28 "trial" and execution of Him mler's aide to Hitler, S. S. Gen. Herman Fegelein, Eva Braun's brother-in-law. When the silence of death fell over the conquered Nazi capital on May 8. 1U45, the Red Army drafted Germans into burial squads. Several witnesses have told of finding a body carrying papers in the name of Heinrich. Mueller. j The exact location of the body , was unclear. Witnesses disa- j greed. But all have testified it was within the shallow triangle; formed by the bunker on Wil hclmstrassc, where Hitler and his Eva died, the propaganda . ministry and Kaiserhof subway i station across the street, and Gestapo Headquarters at 8 Prinz Albrecht Strasse two blocks to the south. These buildings be came a massive rubble heap in the final days of the Red Army i onslaught. j The documents on the body 1 buried as his all bore Mueller's ! rank and name. ; The Berlin criminal police of-! ficial who identified that body as Mueller's had died. Gcr- man investigators now are, doubtful the body was Mueller's, j They said many fleeing Nazis planted their papers and docu ments on dead bodies after re- ish cemetery before moving. Others say it probably was never Mueller's body. Commu nist East Berlin records list Mueller as dead, and West Ger many's Nazi-tracking detectives regard Mueller as dead. His wife says Mueller is dead. The late Walter Schellenberg, Chief of S. S. Foreign Espionage, said Mueller went to work for the Russians and died ir Moscow about 1948. But some of the European based Jewish hunters who track ed Eichmann claim Mueller is hiding in the East. They say Eichmann revealed this under Israeli interrogation before his execution. Mueller Missing Mueller had been missing al most two days when Hitler stuck a pistol in his won mouth and committed suicide on Monday, April 30, 1945. Bormann helped burn his chief's body, sent word to Grand Adm. Karl Doenitz. i Hitler's appointed heir as Fuehrer, thai he would soon join him to continue the fight, and vainly tried to offer the Russ ians a Berlin surrender in re turn for safe passage for Doe nitz. About 9 p. m. on May 1, Bor mann joined hundreds of other members of Hitler's household in a mass breakout from the Red Army ring. He crept along Friedrichstrasse, its ruined buildings in flames and swept by Russian gunfire. In a crum bled mansion next to a ruined bridge, Bormann joined Hitler Youth leader Artur Axmann, Hitler's chauffeur, Erich Kem pka, and a handful of other die hards. Shielded by a Nazi tank, the fleeing group stumbled away. But the tank was hit and they retreated. Bormann and Dr. Ludwig Stumpfegger, Hitler's surgeon, went off down a rail road line. 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