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Martin Bormann - A New Body of Evidence, pg 54-63
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Martin Bormann -
A New Body of Evidence

By Laurence De Mello.

When anyone mentions seen Bormann and fel-
the name Martin Bormann low Nazi, Dr Ludwig

most baby-boomers will Stumpfegger dead, only
know who he was, they hours after fleeing the

will also be quick to tell bunker where Hitler had
you that even though there supposedly put a bul-
was a wild goose chase let through his brain.

across the globe to find One going as far as to
him, he certainly died in say that he had even

1945, proved they say, by seen Bormann’s dead
the finding of his bones ‘’moonlit face’’.
in Berlin in 1972. Martin Photo Courtesy of google.com

Bormann Hitler’s right- From 1945 the hunt for lied troops on the ground
hand man and chancellor, Martin Bormann was on. to co-ordinate a thorough

the man that controlled all During the confusion of search, no stone was left
of the vast Nazi loot was those early post war years, unturned. The same was
tried in absentia in Octo- the West German govern- done independently by a

ber 1946 at the Nurem- ment kept the heat up, but Russian recon group, after
berg trials. Found guilty of UKUSA’s ‘hunt’ was only, Lieutenant General Kon-

war crimes and sentenced If anything, lukewarm. A stantin Telegin, of the So-
to death by hanging, Bor- concentrated search effort viet 5th Shock Army was
mann evaded the noose had been made in 1945 delivered of a diary said

due to his mysterious dis- around the site of the sup- to be of Bormann’s, found
appearance. posed ‘moonlit’ scenario near the same site.

of Bormann and Stump-
Two Nazi witnesses at the fegger, with who he was In those early post war
Nuremberg trials testified last seen alive. With the years, it was not yet a

to the fact that they had advantage of hordes of al- ‘cold case’, with memo-

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