SUCH PEOPLE DO NOT KILL

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Recently, in the anniversary year of the creation of the television series "Seventeen Moments of Spring", it seemed that he did not leave the television screen - the tenth moment had not yet ended on one channel, and the second was being played on the other. Once again, we relished the life of the elite of the Hitlerite Reich, performed by magnificent actors. Without even thinking that this cult film could well have been watched by one of its heroes. Maybe even Heinrich Müller himself, a former SS-Gruppenführer, bearer of the world famous nickname Gestapo-Müller, watched another replay of Lyoznov's television series, sitting in a small-sized room somewhere in a Moscow new building near a home screen in soft slippers and an old-fashioned dressing gown long ago, sighing at the sight of old joys and sipping kefir from a bottle according to the habit acquired in the second home ...

Dbut, there is a very persistent version that Mueller was not killed, that he allegedly worked for Soviet intelligence at all, and after the war he successfully forged personnel in the bowels of our state security. Where does this strange assumption come from? From the most convincing argument used in the search for criminals: look for who benefits. Who needed and benefited from Mueller? An example and mentor in a promising and influencing field of activity for the entire second half of the 20th century - in the formation and functioning of the "chivalry of the writing desk", the "armchair class", the class of the imperious upper bureaucracy? But the Soviet Union, having become a world empire after 1945, canceled the bet on the romantic Korchagins (the last of them were finished off by the war) and began to select and multiply this new class of pragmatic careerists in unprecedented numbers, for which the Kremlin really needed people,

Of course, one argument, even a classical one, is not enough. However, is he really alone?

ITS RESULTS

I don’t know if the “Our Achievements” plaque hung in the headquarters of the Gestapo (Berlin, Prinz-Albrechtstrasse 8, in the buildings of the former vocational school and the former Museum of Folklore). But if it did, the owner of the premises, who was the last to leave them at the end of April 1945 (like the captain - his sinking ship), could pin only one sheet of writing paper with several numbers on this board - and anyone who saw this sheet would shudder. The last Gestapo chief to leave the already blazing walls of his "office" was Heinrich Müller, Lieutenant General of Police, SS-Gruppenfuehrer, who, regardless of his title, was the real manager of affairs in the Gestapo. And the numbers he could write on the sheet are as follows: “Under the leadership and with the participation of my department, destroyed in prisons, concentration camps and operational groups (Einsatzgruppen):

Jews - 6 million

Soviet prisoners of war in concentration camps - 5.7 million,

concentration camp prisoners from the USSR - 3.3 million,

civilians on the territory of the USSR - from 700 to 800 thousand,

members of the Resistance - several hundred thousand (figures are being specified),

the political opposition is almost completely (several million) ”.

But the Gestapo most likely did not have such a board (or stand). Mueller did not tolerate publicity, did not advertise the results of his work and the achievements of the team of subordinates. It took the efforts of many investigators and many years of their research to reveal at least some part of what Mueller and his campaigners did. Much more is a mystery. Mueller himself is still a mystery. Investigative bodies and special services of the largest countries of Europe, Asia, America fought and are fighting over this riddle. Only the competent authorities of the USSR and its satellites, starting with the GDR, remained indifferent to it and inactive in this aspect. And this strange circumstance is also part of the riddle, formulated fictionally as follows: "Who are you, Herr Müller?"

HIS BOSSES

The proverb of clerks and servicemen: "Tell me who your boss is, and I will tell you who you are" is a special case of a more general truth: "Every nation is worthy of its rulers." Will we be able to "catch in the crosshair" Müller, comparing the SS-Gruppenfuehrer with his four direct bosses?

The highest of them is Adolf Hitler, the formal commander-in-chief of the SS forces (the Gestapo is part of the SS, a subdivision of the SS). The ideological, psychological and behavioral constant of the Fuhrer of the German people is the desire for unlimited power and world domination. Apart from them, Hitler was not particularly interested in anything. (The Gestapo-Müller was indifferent to these "higher goals".) The next three above Müller are Himmler, Heydrich and Kaltenbrunner. Chief among them is Himmler, their common boss, the Reichsfuehrer SS. The other two - Heydrich and Kaltenbrunner - are his subordinates, both at different times chiefs of the RSHA (Main Directorate of Imperial Security) and SD (SS Security Service), the second replaced the first in this post when he was killed by the Czech Resistance fighters. These four are Hitler, Himmler, Heydrich,

But what particularly sharply distinguished Mueller from his bosses - all four were under investigation, and two were even in prison, while he, on the contrary, was imprisoned himself, being absolutely law-abiding.

Young Hitler sat down for his Munich putsch. Young Himmler was accused at the trial on suspicion of the murder of a prostitute, on whose income he lived (in fact, he pimped). Young Heydrich was judged by honor and by his decision was expelled from the naval officer for rape. Kaltenbrunner, who in his youth established ties between the SS of Austria (where he was born) and Germany (for which he worked), served time in an Austrian prison for treason.

The young years of Muller and all his four leaders were different - it is not enough to say, they were contrasting, polar. After the defeat in the First World War, Germany plunged into the abyss of revolution, civil war (lost by the Reds), devastation and chaos. Four future SS bosses in those years of the "collapse of the empire" collapsed from the honorary shelves of the social bookcase (Hitler - from the pedestal of a front-line corporal who received a soldier's Iron Cross and was severely injured after a gas attack on the front line; Himmler, the son of the school director, - from the cozy niche of his favorite family, an avid gardener and a poultry farmer; Heydrich, son of the director of the conservatory, - from the path of a child prodigy violinist and a young military officer; Kaltenbrunner, the son of a lawyer - from the initial stages of law practice) to the bottom of life, teeming with homeless people, bandits, thieves, prostitutes, embittered by hunger and outcast.

Most of all, Mueller and his leadership differed among themselves in what is commonly called the "world of addictions." Hitler outside politics (rare moments) was passionately fond of Wagner's music (Müller was not noticed in Wagnerism). Kaltenbrunner, the "mountain man", from his student years had the resounding fame of a fist fighter, an unsurpassed brawler (Mueller left this hard work to his subordinates, specialists in "interrogation of the third degree"). Heydrich considered his main life to be nightlife - in the company of his fellow SS men, he inspected one brothel after another until morning, looking for the meaning of being in the transcendental perversions with prostitutes of all ages and conditions, unless, of course, he was busy with his other favorite occupation - he did not torture for a long time and subtly his next victim in the basements of the Gestapo (Müller preferred to sleep at night, although he went to bed late or because of urgent work, or because of a protracted game of chess with some colleague, the same fanatic of this game as he is, and Mueller was looking for such fanatics of chess as a staff member). Himmler, as a former gardener and poultry farmer, was seized with the idea of ​​breeding true, pure Germans, refined Aryans, for which in special barracks "Lebensborn" mated young SS men from the selected bodyguard regiment of the Fuhrer "Adolf Hitler-Leibstandarte" with specially and scrupulously selected girls (in the thousands) in order to obtain from them the desired offspring - the "master race" for the future world Reich (Müller did not believe in the racial idea and in the technology of directed eugenics, especially since a lot of downs were born in Himmler's "poultry house", and he trusted more in the selection of Reich citizens for their agents, numbering in tens of thousands,

HIS STYLE

If, as can be seen from all of the above, Mueller contrasted so much with his bosses, why did they keep him in such a high position, why they arranged for him a crazy career, for which they forgave not just indifference to Nazi ideology and lack of piety towards the NSDAP, but also the pursuit of your party during your youth?

The secret is that Mueller turned the most indecent desires, the most shameful vices of his leaders into an industry, into a huge, loud, prestigious, powerful enterprise, which flattered the bosses, asserted them in itself, elevated them in their eyes.

Müller knew that, in addition to politics and art, Hitler had a secret passion - a bulky folder with copies of personal letters and transcripts of telephone conversations (even intimate) of his closest associates in the party and government, as well as high officials was put on the table every day for the Fuhrer to read the state apparatus, the SS, the party and the Wehrmacht. This folder of the Fuhrer was filled in personally by Müller. To prevent the folder from "losing weight", Mueller provided wiretapping and tape recording of telephone conversations, radio communications, and mail viewing. Not only that - the Gestapo dossier contained information about millions of people, and in order for the information to be rechecked and replenished, an automatic filing cabinet was mounted in the Gestapo - an aggregate that was a colossus the size of a two-story building and was controlled by only one operator!

Müller not only took Heydrich's night orgies for granted, but also creatively reworked it into something desirable and useful for the Gestapo, as a result of which the Gestapo organized the Kitty Salon, renting a former Berlin hotel through dummies and turning it into a fashionable brothel stuffed with equipment eavesdropping and sound recording. The "girls" of this secret and unprecedented radio-equipped and telephonic brothel were selected through a complex competition, in which, in addition to knowledge of languages ​​(to serve diplomats), physical data, memory and ideological Nazi stuffing inside a sexy uniform were tested. On special occasions in the apartments of the "Salon Kitty", along with the sound recording and filming with a hidden camera was carried out - needless to say that these footage, the characters of which were the stars of the political horizon of the Reich and the diplomatic corps,

Müller quickly and in a businesslike manner appreciated the breeding aspirations of the SS Reichsfuehrer Himmler - in the blissful, almost heavenly idyll of the Lebensborns, a barracks for breeding young males of the Fuhrer's personal guard regiment with selected young Aryan females, Himmler carried out a “positive breeding line” of the masters, but, since he personally fainted at the sight of the death penalty, the destruction of the "negative line" - ensuring the disappearance of the "chaff" after their separation from the "seeds" - was entrusted to the Gestapo and personally to Müller. He organized an extermination machine, ideal in terms of technology and uninterrupted operation - from the broadly used right of the Gestapo to arrest anyone and everyone and put them in a death camp without presenting any grounds or any arrest warrants (with the absolute lack of jurisdiction of all SS officials,

Müller recognized the cherished professional hegemonic aspirations of Kaltenbrunner, a former lawyer, and successfully contributed to their implementation. Mueller instructed the Gestapo to decide on the life and death of prisoners precisely to the council of lawyers - only they gave sanction to the death penalty. But the main thing in which Mueller supported Kaltenbrunner was the desire for a monopoly on information, the struggle of the RSHA to transfer all types of intelligence services to the imperial security service (modeled on the Stalinist Lubyanka) - military, political, and economic. As soon as Hitler agreed to this, to Mueller's great joy his dream came true - the RSHA (with the Gestapo) and the NKVD became twins, not just brothers.

And, finally, for the sake of his chief boss, going, as they say, towards his innermost aspirations, Müller made an enterprise on the scale of world history. He knew that after the signing of the Munich Agreement, when Britain and France gave Hitler the Sudetes and doomed Czechoslovakia to the German occupation, the Fuhrer exclaimed more than once with bitterness: "They stole my war from me!" Since childhood, Adolf Hitler dreamed of military glory, having led Germany, he revived the army and persistently prepared it for action. And Müller started this main business of Hitler - he prepared and conducted a mock attack by the Poles on the German border radio station in Gleiwitz, and did it as clearly and realistically as possible - with the corpses of “Polish soldiers” (prisoners of concentration camps disguised as them), with victims among the Germans. Under the pretext of revenge for Gleiwitz, Hitler ordered the army to crush Poland.

Müller is the man who started World War II!

ITS STRANGE

It was no coincidence that Müller sided with Kaltenbrunner in his implementation of the Soviet model of super special service, which he considered unsurpassed. Many times the head of the Gestapo, in the presence of his colleagues (in particular, the SS intelligence officer Schellenberg) and people close to him (primarily two mistresses), confessed his admiration for Stalin and the Stalinist state system, which he called ideal, admired the success of the Kremlin and the Lubyanka in repressive practice , in the establishment of total control over the people and over an individual, the setting of torture and the perfection of the Gulag in the implementation of the formula for the functioning of concentration camps in the USSR, discovered by its leaders: "death through labor" - formulas,

When Müller praised the order in the USSR, he knew what he was saying - the top leadership of the Hitlerite Reich needed him precisely as a specialist in communism, which he became in the 20s in the Munich police, where he was noticed by Himmler as an excellent specialist and zealous hard worker and taken to the central office of the SD and the Gestapo in Berlin. It was Mueller who became the first main mentor of his direct superiors in the RSHA on Marxism, the history and life of the Russian Bolsheviks, the German Communist Party, the Comintern, the Stalinist Central Committee, the NKVD - he dictated to his secretary and mistress Barbara H. essays on the theory and practice of world communism, which diligently studied by Himmler and Heydrich.

It was in the superiority of the Stalinist model of the state over Hitler's that Muller saw the reasons for the victories of the Red Army and the defeat of Germany in the war in the East. “They are better,” Mueller explained to his mistress Anna S. at the end of April 1945 the reason for the appearance of a Soviet tank outside the window of her Berlin mansion, when Anna helped Mueller burn his documents in the fireplace - passport, IDs, order books. At the same time, as one of the reasons for the German defeat, Müller called the too impermissibly high level of culture of the German people, citing as an example the difference in the behavior of high-ranking military men convicted in the USSR along with Marshal Tukhachevsky for conspiracy against Stalin, and high-ranking officers arrested in Germany for participating in the assassination attempt against Hitler: those in the USSR repented and called dozens of accomplices, and these, in Germany,

There was nothing new in such speeches, for Müller liked to say that he would gladly collect all the intellectuals in one mine and blow it up. And at the same time, among his subordinates and closest employees, recruited by him to his headquarters personally, the overwhelming majority had a higher education, and some had two.

It is interesting that Mueller did not enter into Hitler's party in principle, not only before she came to power, but also for six years in a row after her accession, when the Nazis triumphantly ruled Germany, and this new regime, immediately after its emergence, was elevated to one of the highest and the most responsible positions in the SS and the state apparatus. In the archives of the Nazi Party, documents have been preserved that document Mueller's pre-existing actions and statements in different years, making it clear his more than cool attitude towards Nazism and the Nazis. Back on March 9, 1933, at the time of the capture of the government by the Nazis, a Munich police officer (the citadel of Nazism) Mueller, having learned that SA stormtroopers were going to move into the building of the city police department where he worked and turn it into a NSDAP club, shouted to his colleagues - to the police: "Let them just stick around, we'll show them! " Later, taking a leading position in the RSHA, Müller summoned to Berlin and demonstratively took his close friend and colleague in the Munich police, Franz-Josef Huber, to the central office of the Gestapo, a professional Nazi hunter during the Weimar Republic, who persecuted communists and extremism alike and Hitlerites. Moreover, Mueller provided Huber, during the years of their Munich cooperation, who publicly covered Adolf Hitler with almost obscenities, almost lightning-fast promotion to large posts in his "office" and high ranks in the SS. Actions of this kind - and there were many of them - caused an angry and hysterical reaction of the party bosses and an avalanche of denunciations against Mueller to Hitler and Bormann. Müller summoned to Berlin and demonstratively took his close friend and colleague in the Munich police, Franz Josef Huber, a professional Nazi hunter during the Weimar Republic, which equally persecuted both communists and Nazis for extremism, into the central office of the Gestapo. Moreover, Mueller provided Huber, during the years of their Munich cooperation, who publicly covered Adolf Hitler with almost obscenities, almost lightning-fast promotion to large posts in his "office" and high ranks in the SS. Actions of this kind - and there were many of them - caused an angry and hysterical reaction of the party bosses and an avalanche of denunciations against Mueller to Hitler and Bormann. Müller summoned to Berlin and demonstratively took his close friend and colleague in the Munich police, Franz Josef Huber, a professional Nazi hunter during the Weimar Republic, which equally persecuted both communists and Nazis for extremism, into the central office of the Gestapo. Moreover, Mueller provided Huber, during the years of their Munich cooperation, who publicly covered Adolf Hitler with almost obscenities, almost lightning-fast promotion to large posts in his "office" and high ranks in the SS. Actions of this kind - and there were many of them - caused an angry and hysterical reaction of the party bosses and an avalanche of denunciations against Mueller to Hitler and Bormann. Moreover, Mueller provided Huber, during the years of their Munich cooperation, who publicly covered Adolf Hitler with almost obscenities, almost lightning-fast promotion to large posts in his "office" and high ranks in the SS. Actions of this kind - and there were many of them - caused an angry and hysterical reaction of the party bosses and an avalanche of denunciations against Mueller to Hitler and Bormann. Moreover, Mueller provided Huber, during the years of their Munich cooperation, who publicly covered Adolf Hitler with almost obscenities, almost lightning-fast promotion to large posts in his "office" and high ranks in the SS. Actions of this kind - and there were many of them - caused an angry and hysterical reaction of the party bosses and an avalanche of denunciations against Mueller to Hitler and Bormann.

The suspicion of the Nazi functionaries was also aroused by the lack of mercy of the Gestapo chief: a modest lifestyle, and indifference to luxury, and a dislike for uniforms and regalia - it was noticed that even in the Reich Chancellery, Müller prefers to walk in civilian clothes and without his high orders, and even the fact that During the difficult war years for Germany, the Gestapo-Müller, as the whole country and all of Europe called him, did not attach to any distributor, refused special rations, but not ration cards, which ordinary employees of Berlin lived. Moreover, Muller had a characteristic "social fad" - anger against the "bourgeois", business people, clever businessmen, whom he called "American types": one of them, Eduard Winter, manager of the Opel automobile concern and Goering's protégé, tortured interrogations, surveillance, checks of his financial condition and transactions, and all only because he quickly became rich and, as a result, acquired influence in the Berlin power structures. Conversely, when the so-called ordinary people were arrested, Müller demanded a thorough check of compromising evidence on them, and there are cases of release from prison of those who fell victim to slanderous denunciations (as a rule, on charges of anti-Nazi sentiments, but with a purely selfish or careerist motive). And once Müller managed to save from torture and dangerous punishment an ordinary soldier who incurred the wrath of Heydrich himself. British intelligence agent Best, whom Müller personally interrogated in the central prison of the Gestapo, said: "In my opinion, Müller was a decent man." that he quickly grew rich and as a result acquired influence in the Berlin power structures. Conversely, when the so-called ordinary people were arrested, Müller demanded a thorough check of compromising evidence on them, and there are cases of release from prison of those who fell victim to slanderous denunciations (as a rule, on charges of anti-Nazi sentiments, but with a purely selfish or careerist motive). And once Müller managed to save from torture and dangerous punishment an ordinary soldier who incurred the wrath of Heydrich himself. British intelligence agent Best, whom Müller personally interrogated in the central prison of the Gestapo, said: "In my opinion, Müller was a decent man." that he quickly grew rich and as a result acquired influence in the Berlin power structures. Conversely, when the so-called ordinary people were arrested, Müller demanded a thorough check of compromising evidence on them, and there are cases of release from prison of those who fell victim to slanderous denunciations (as a rule, on charges of anti-Nazi sentiments, but with a purely selfish or careerist motive). And once Müller managed to save from torture and dangerous punishment an ordinary soldier who incurred the wrath of Heydrich himself. British intelligence agent Best, whom Müller personally interrogated in the central prison of the Gestapo, said: "In my opinion, Müller was a decent man." and there are known cases of the release from prison of those who became the victim of slanderous denunciations (as a rule, on charges of anti-Nazi sentiments, but with a purely selfish or careerist motive). And once Müller managed to save from torture and dangerous punishment an ordinary soldier who incurred the wrath of Heydrich himself. British intelligence agent Best, whom Müller personally interrogated in the central prison of the Gestapo, said: "In my opinion, Müller was a decent man." and there are known cases of the release from prison of those who became the victim of slanderous denunciations (as a rule, on charges of anti-Nazi sentiments, but with a purely selfish or careerist motive). And once Müller managed to save from torture and dangerous punishment an ordinary soldier who incurred the wrath of Heydrich himself. British intelligence agent Best, whom Müller personally interrogated in the central prison of the Gestapo, said: "In my opinion, Müller was a decent man."

But it is more accurate to form an opinion about Mueller's personality on the facts recorded in the documents of the Gestapo archive, since the archive seized by the victorious allies has been preserved almost in full. Here are some of these facts. Müller, without days off and holidays, from early morning until late at night, watched and watched in his office at the Gestapo headquarters on Prince Albrechtstrasse at his permanent desk, returning to him after any banquets and buffets, which sometimes he could not avoid in front of everyone trying to dodge them. Over the past five years of the leadership of the Gestapo, Mueller was absent from his workplace only twice - once he took time off for family reasons, in another case he fell ill due to a severe cold. Mueller adopted this working regime from his personal "right-flank" Joseph Stalin. With him, along with the role of a workaholic, Müller also copied the method of leadership: he always subordinated to himself only those who did not surpass him in the profession, and built the Gestapo system according to the principle of core competence - no one could be more informed than the task entrusted to him required. or an imputed area of ​​work, and it was only in Mueller's brain that a general picture emerged from the reports and reports of individual "screws of the machine". This is how Mueller put into practice the Stalinist principle of leadership: "He who possesses the maximum information has the maximum power." and it was only in Mueller's brain that a general picture emerged from the reports and reports of individual "cogs of the machine". This is how Mueller put into practice the Stalinist principle of leadership: "He who possesses the maximum information has the maximum power." and it was only in Mueller's brain that a general picture emerged from the reports and reports of individual "cogs of the machine". This is how Mueller put into practice the Stalinist principle of leadership: "He who possesses the maximum information has the maximum power."

The goal (in accordance with Stalinist practice) justified any means in Mueller's eyes. "Upper Nazis" demanded to exterminate Jews, representatives of lower races, oppositionists, the Soviet intelligentsia, captured Soviet intelligence officers and saboteurs, as well as members of the Resistance. Mueller, on the other hand, repeatedly met with Jewish leaders to search for compromise solutions, often tried to reduce the scale of the anti-Semitic genocide, justifying this either by the lack of SS capacity and forces, or by the need to exchange Jews for German prisoners of war, instead of the total destruction of "subhumans", he ordered them to be Germanized (especially specialists, physically strong and children),

There are circulars signed by Müller in the archives of the Gestapo obliging to treat Soviet prisoners of war (which the Germans could not have done, because Stalin in 1941 announced to the whole world that the USSR had no German prisoners, but traitors to the Motherland), Müller's orders were found, softening the regime of repression (and from the 44th - a ban on them) for German women, as well as for those Jews who had merits before Germany, found his permission to release Jews to freedom in some cases, to receive food parcels for most categories of camp prisoners (except , of course, Soviet). In the opinion of Müller's colleagues, if the solution of the Jewish question depended on him personally, no genocide against the Jews would have been carried out. It is worth adding to this, that, as a result of the activities of the SS commission for detecting abuses sanctioned by Müller and as a result of its investigations in the concentration camp system, despite the opposition of the direct chiefs of the Gestapo chief, a number of camp leaders, guards and guards were convicted by the SS court, and some were sentenced to death for cruelty and unauthorized killings. It must be borne in mind: the orders for the mass extermination of Jews, commissars of the Red Army, the death penalty and the creation of death camps were signed by members of the highest leadership of the Reich - Hitler, Goering, Himmler, Heydrich, Kaltenbrunner, Field Marshals Keitel and von Reichenau. Müller carried out the orders, for otherwise he would have been destroyed. guard commanders and guards were convicted by the SS court, and some were sentenced to death for cruelty and unsanctioned killings. It must be borne in mind: the orders for the mass extermination of Jews, commissars of the Red Army, the death penalty and the creation of death camps were signed by members of the highest leadership of the Reich - Hitler, Goering, Himmler, Heydrich, Kaltenbrunner, Field Marshals Keitel and von Reichenau. Müller carried out the orders, for otherwise he would have been destroyed. guard commanders and guards were convicted by the SS court, and some were sentenced to death for cruelty and unsanctioned killings. It must be borne in mind: the orders for the mass extermination of Jews, commissars of the Red Army, the death penalty and the creation of death camps were signed by members of the highest leadership of the Reich - Hitler, Goering, Himmler, Heydrich, Kaltenbrunner, Field Marshals Keitel and von Reichenau. Müller carried out the orders, for otherwise he would have been destroyed.

There are a number of orders of repression, signed personally by Müller and have a strange character and amusing subtext. Here, for example, is his order to all departments of the Gestapo in the territories of the old Reich (actually Germany) and the countries occupied by the Wehrmacht in June 1941: "I grant the right to arrest seemingly especially dangerous Communist Party functionaries as soon as the opportunity presents itself." Almost every word here is a sensation! Hitler has been in power for eight years. The chief of the Gestapo - to the omnipotent Gestapo for eight years: "I grant the right to take ..." "Particularly dangerous functionaries of the Communist Party ..." And not really? And this is what happens - for eight years (how many Nazis have been in power) "especially dangerous" communists have been roaming free? .. But a similar order from Mueller dated August 17, 1944 (!): In the case of a special double (! ) signal ("grid" and "thunderstorm") must be arrested ... the secretaries of the Communist Party and the Socialist Party of Germany. Se-kr-ta-ri! Phantasmagoria ... In eight months, the Wehrmacht will be finally defeated, the Reich will collapse, Hitler will commit suicide - and the leaders of the enemy parties are still freezing in the wild (to say nothing of the rank and file!), And in order to arrest them, to touch them with a finger, local Gestapo departments should receive from Berlin not just a signal, but a double one, and God forbid, only one half of it will be counted as a whole! Tell this to the veterans of the Cheka-GPU-NKVD-MGB-KGB and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union - after all, they will not believe! But this is a document with Mueller's own handwritten signature. But these are flowers. During the Nuremberg trials, investigators interrogated the head of the SD (SS security service) intelligence, Schellenberg, and he testified that Mueller not only worshiped Stalin and the USSR, but also worked for the intelligence of the USSR. Let's remember this official testimony.

Still, the main strangeness of Mueller should be considered, perhaps, not his life, not his service, but his death. Muller is the only person in the world whose death was registered, but after the registration of his death, an arrest warrant was issued for his own, which is valid to this day.

HIS (?) DEATH (?)

"The death of SS Obergruppenfuehrer and Police Lieutenant General Heinrich Müller" - an action with this name, perhaps one of the most talented operations carried out by Müller at the end of the war. He began to cook it long before the 45th year. That Germany would lose the war with the Soviet Union, Müller began to guess (and he is not alone) back in 1943, and then he let slip about his guess in a conversation with Walter Schellenberg, and then to his secretary and mistress Barbara H. pathetically declared that the Fatherland was ready to collapse and the last bullet in his Walther's clip would belong to him. The phrase has not sunk into oblivion. Another mistress of Müller, Anna Sh., Who helped him, as already mentioned, at the end of April 1945 to burn personal documents at his Berlin villa, told the investigation that Müller could have a fake passport (of course!) And always had an ampoule with him with poison.

A little later, in Berlin, two corpses were found and buried in different parts of the city in the uniforms of an SS Gruppenfuehrer and with Müller's documents (but with ripped off photographs). One burial was made at the Jewish cemetery (it was not found), the second - at the Berlin-Neukölln cemetery, where in 1958 Mueller's children erected a monument. At the request of the prosecutor's office in 1963, this grave was opened and the remains found in it were examined at the Berlin Institute of Forensic Medicine, which gave the conclusion: the bones from the grave belong to six different people, the skull is not suitable for Heinrich Müller in size and age, the lower jaw of the skull does not fit the upper ...

In various statements and studies (in particular, in the memoirs of former German prisoners of war, in the testimony of SD intelligence chief Schellenberg at the Nuremberg trials, in an interview with the famous Zionist leader and super-knowledgeable master of secret diplomacy Simon Wiesenthal, in the investigation of the Focus magazine) with varying degrees of confidence and Evidence is called the address of Mueller's stay after the war - the USSR. Significant is the fact that in the smoky ruins of the Nazi Reich Chancellery on the night of May 2 to 3, 1945, Müller was not alone - his subordinate was always with him, who was engaged in the Gestapo with a radio game with Soviet intelligence and was in charge of the development of its caught agents.

What could he count on if he was not our spy (this is the weakest version)? Much.

Müller put political investigation on the rails of technical progress. He entangled the globe with a network of agents, entering the top authorities of all significant states. Müller knew the codes of many governments and armies, their developers and carriers. He was aware of the military and state secrets of the allied and enemy coalitions. Finally, he knew who was doing what in Germany - in science, engineering, military production and the General Staff, in politics: who was worth what, who was working for whom. He knew who was who on the globe. Such people are not killed.

Alexey DIDUROV