Conversations With The Crow

The Gestapo struck terror into millions before and during the Second World War and is still used to evoke an image of cruelty and oppression. Heinrich Müller, the Gestapo Chief, vanished at the end of the war. He was last seen in Hitler’s bunker on April 29, 1945 and was officially stated to have been killed. He did not die as stated, but instead was recruited by the CIA in 1948 under Operation Paperclip, a Top Secret program to bring top German Scientists to the United States after the war to help the CIA and the FBI in their operations against Soviet spies both in Europe and the United States. This book, based on an 800 page interview with Mueller who was living in Switzerland in quiet retirement, was not designed to set the stage for a trial but was, quite simply, a job interview. The author has carefully edited and annotated enough material to deliver a serious wakeup call to the community of historians. At the same time, the character of ‘Gestapo’ Müller emerges with vivid clarity. This is a study of a highly intelligent and complex man who was at the very center of the Third Reich and who not only lived to tell about it, but managed to turn adversity into personal triumph. --