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Martin Bormann - A New Body of Evidence

ries still fresh and the subjected to a DNA fo- after the legal medical

ground still soft. Any such rensic study by the West team matched blood from
corpses although decom- German prosecutor. The a Bormann relative, the
posed, would have cer- reason for this new 1998 match was positive.

tainly been on, or near the investigation was that in
surface and easily identifi- 1996 Christopher Creigh- A confirmation of the re-

able with the minimum of ton, aka John Ainsworth- mains being those of Bor-
forensics; but not as much Davis a former British mann was released to the
as a scrap of flesh was Naval Intelligence agent world’s press, along with

found of either man. At and member of the covert the statement that Martin
least they had some dis- British group C.O.P.P Bormann had certainly

putable charred remains (Combined Operations died in 1945 at the site his
of Hitler, but the bodies of Pilotage Parties) had pub- remains were found.
Bormann and Stumpfeg- lished a book, OPJB (Op- Due to the 1998 DNA

ger had literally vanished eration James Bond). In confirmation of the Skel-
into thin air, along with the book, Creighton using eton, Modern historians

the Nazi loot. a pseudonym claims that teach their students that
along with Ian Fleming, stories of Bormann escap-
But after construction he was instructed by Win- ing to South America are

workers came across hu- ston Churchill and Des- false, nothing more than
man remains near the mond Morton the head of the rantings of conspiracy

Lehrter station in Berlin Secret British intelligence theorists and madmen.
in 1972, the world’s press section V to rescue Martin Investigative journalists
gathered to hear if this Bormann from a burn- and even former intel-

was indeed Bormann. ing Berlin in May 1945. ligence agents have been
Bormann’s Nazi dentist The book, passed off as a continually slandered after

Dr Hugo Blaschke was novel to protect Creigh- they have released infor-
called and he recalled ton from serious breach mation to the contrary,
from memory his former consequences of the Of- that there has been a cover

patient’s dental physiol- ficial Secrets Act unsettled up by the western allies,
ogy and gave testimony the German government that not only did Bormann

that they were one and so much that a thorough escape, but his escape was
the same, the case was forensics and DNA in- orchestrated by the British
closed. It was not until vestigation was carried intelligence services with

1998 that due to modern out on the remains. The the support of the United
science the remains were forensic results came back States government.

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