Where is himmler buried

Himmler would have been tried, along with other accused Nazi war criminals, at Nuremberg, but took his own life before interrogation could begin. Mr Jones wrote he was ordered to bury Himmler in an unmarked coffin and grave near the camp in Luneberg Heath and sign a document to keep the truth hidden. Mr Renshaw said he had narrowed the location of the burial site down to a fenced-off area on the heath which was dedicated as a memorial to victory in the war.

Your ad blocker may be preventing you from being able to log in or subscribe. Czechs search for 'heroes' who killed Heydrich. Image source, Getty Images. Whoever vandalised the grave of Reinhard Heydrich inset is thought to have inside knowledge.

No bones were removed, police say. Czechs search for 'heroes' who killed Heydrich The Holocaust year by year. Image source, AFP. The East German police were not interested at the time but Tuchel traced the documents and military decorations found on the body to archives in Berlin and crossed that with data from German intelligence and the U. Central Intelligence Agency. He concluded that Mueller was dead and traced the corpse to the historic Jewish cemetery dating from the 17th century, where the Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn was also buried.

The cemetery was desecrated by the Nazis and became the site of 16 mass graves for more than 2, people who died in Allied air raids and the fall of Berlin.