Heinrich Mueller Born in Germany in April 1901, was Heinrich Mueller. Mueller was a World War I veteran, where he fought for Germany against the Russian Army. At the close of World War I, Heinrich became a part of the Bavarian Police. As a member of the Nazi Party, in 1934, he was recruited to take over the Gestapo. Then in 1939, Heinrich took over the Secret Political Police. Mueller also played a very important role in setting up the Final Solution. Mueller escaped from Germany in April 1945, and he was never found.
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Klaus Barbie Klaus Barbie was born in 1913, in Bad Godesberg, Germany. Barbie joined the Nazi Party in 1932, and the SS in 1935. That year, he was also assigned to the SD Security Service. When World War II began, he became second lieutenant and fought with an SD detachment in the Western Offensive. In 1940, Barbie moved to Holland to work for Jewish Emigration after he became an SS Obersturmfuhrer.
In 1942, Barbie moved to Dijon, France where he again worked with the SD Security Service. Barbie captured a French Resistance member, Rene Hardy, in 1943. Eventually, they got enough information out of Hardy to arrest many more French Resistance members. When the Allied troops were advancing on Germany in 1944, Barbie killed many people who knew of his interrogation methods and also destroyed Gestapo records. After they closed in on his home in Lyons, he fled back to Nazi Germany. Here, he joined the US Counter-Intelligence Corps. While the Nuremberg War Trials were going on, the CIC kept Barbie in hiding, but told France that they were not sure of his location. He escaped Germany to Bolivia in 1951, and became a Bolivian citizen in 1957. He was not found until 1983, where he was extradited back to France. Here, he was sentenced to life in prison. Barbie died of leukemia on September 25, 1991. |
Walter Schellenberg Born on January 16th, 1910, in Saarbruecken, Germany. In 1918, Schellenberg moved to Luxembourg where he went through most of his childhood. He then moved to Germany in 1929, where he studied at the University of Bonn. In 1933, he joined the SS and moved up the ladder quickly by impressing Himmler. Schellenberg hoped to take Reinhard Heydrich’s position after he was assassinated but did not. When the war was coming to a close, Walter attempted to start peace negotiations in Stockholm. However, he was arrested, and was kept from many years in prison by testifying against other Nazis. In 1949, Schellenberg was given six years in prison. However, he was released in two years because of health issues. He died on March 31, 1952.
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