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free! From Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium Heinrich Müller
(born April 28, 1900, Munich; date of death unknown, last seen
leaving the Führerbunker, April 29, 1945), a German police
official, was head of the Gestapo, the political police of Nazi
Germany, and played a leading role in the planning and execution
of the Holocaust. He disappeared in May 1945 and remains the
only senior figure of the Nazi regime who was never captured or
confirmed to have died. Müller was born in Munich, the son of
working-class Catholic parents. After service in the last year
of World War I as a pilot for an artillery spotting unit, during
which he was decorated several times for bravery (Iron Cross 2nd
class), he joined the Bavarian police in 1919, and was involved
in the suppression of the communist risings in the early postwar
years. After witnessing the shooting of hostages by the
revolutionary "Red Ar