Editing Georg Elser (section)

===Investigation===
While still returning to Berlin by train, Hitler ordered Heinrich Himmler to put [[Arthur Nebe]], head of [[Kripo]] (Criminal Police), in charge of the investigation into the Munich bombing. Himmler did this, but also assigned total control of the investigation to the chief of the Gestapo, [[Heinrich Müller (Gestapo)|Heinrich Müller]]. Müller immediately ordered the arrest of all Bürgerbräukeller personnel, while Nebe ran the onsite investigation, sifting through the debris.<ref name="Hellmut G 2013"/>

Nebe had early success, finding the remains of brass plates bearing patent numbers of a clock maker in [[Villingen-Schwenningen|Schwenningen]], Baden-Würtemberg. Despite the clear evidence of the German make, Himmler released to the press that the metal parts pointed to "foreign origin".<ref name="Hellmut G 2013"/>

Himmler offered a reward of 500,000 marks for information leading to the capture of the culprits, and the Gestapo was soon deluged with hundreds of suspects. When one suspect was reported to have detonator parts in his pockets, Otto Rappold of the counter-espionage arm of the Gestapo sped to Königsbronn and neighbouring towns. Every family member and possible acquaintance of Elser was rounded up for interrogation.<ref name="Hellmut G 2013"/>

At the Schmauder residence in Schnaitheim, 16-year-old Maria Schmauder told of her family's recent boarder who was working on an "invention", had a false bottom in his suitcase, and worked at the Vollmer quarry.<ref name="Hellmut G 2013"/>