INFAMOUS GESTAPO LEADERS
REINHARD HEYDRICH
Heydrich (7 March 1904–4 June 1942) was a senior SS officer, chief of the Reich Security Main Office that controlled the Gestapo and SD, and Deputy/Acting Reich-Protector of Bohemia and Moravia. He also led the January 1942 Wannsee Conference where the plans for the deportation and genocide of all Jews in German-occupied Europe were set in motion.
Heydrich also instituted the Einsatzgruppen, the murderers who followed the invading German troops throughout Europe and the Soviet Union and either shot or gassed over two million people including
1.3 million Jews.
On 27 May 1942, Heydrich was mortally wounded in an ambush by a team of British trained Czech and Slovak soldiers (see March issue cover story).
HEINRICH MÜLLER
Müller (28 April 1900-1945) was a highranking SS and police official in-charge of the Gestapo for most of WWII. He also authorised the shooting of escaped prisoners of war and the torture of the officers who conspired to kill Hitler in July 1944.
The fate of Müller was unknown until October 2013, when an old document written by a burial commando was located, reporting the discovery and identification of Müller’s body in August 1945. He was buried with about 2,400 others in a mass grave in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin’s Mitte section.
HANS JOSEF HUBER
Franz Josef Huber (22 January 1902–30 January 1975) was the chief of the Security Police and Gestapo for Vienna, responsible for mass deportations of Jews from the greater area. Huber was never imprisoned for his crimes, but instead was employed by the West German Federal Intelligence Service from 1955–64. He died in Munich in 1975.