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On 27 September 1939, the security and police agencies of Nazi Germany — with the exception of the Orpo — were consolidated into the Reich Main Security Office ( RSHA ), headed by Heydrich.

The Gestapo became Amt IV ( Department IV ) of RSHA and Müller became the Gestapo Chief, with Heydrich as his immediate superior.

After Heydrich's 1942 assassination, Himmler assumed the leadership of the RSHA, but in January 1943 Ernst Kaltenbrunner was appointed Chief of the RSHA.

Müller remained the Gestapo Chief, a position he occupied until the end of the war.

Adolf Eichmann was Müller's direct subordinate and head of Department IV, Section B4, which dealt with Jews.