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. Axmann, going the
other way, met a soviet patrol
and back-tracked down the trail
Bormann took.
There the Bormann mystery
begins.
Axmann claims he found Bor
mann and the doctor's bodies,
apparently the victims of sui
cide by poison. Other survivors
reported seeing Bormann rid
claims he saw Bormann die in
a tank explosion.
No body identified as Bor
mann's was found and the vic
torious Allies thought so little tried Bormann in absentia,
of his reported death that they i His noose still waits.
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