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Martin Bormann - A New Body of Evidence

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sis and investigation on Bormann death myth in mann investigation is
the documents made avail- force and such suppres- far from a cold case, as

able to them, Farago’s sion of evidence continues a new generation of in-
publication was ignored to this day. vestigative journalists
and serious attempts were have reopened the dusty

made to discredit him But not everyone ignored Bormann files and have
and the other members of Farago’s book. The con- enthusiastically picked up

the team. Precedence had tent and evidence pro- from where their prede-
been set, when it came to duced by Farrago was so cessors departed. Recent
stating or even suggesting compelling that it attracted research reveals that the

Bormann had survived, the attention of Dr. Robert Federal police archives in
even experts like Farago, M.W. Kempner, a former Argentina show that the

who was also the world’s Nuremberg trial attorney FBI were sending agents
leading expert on pro- who decided to reopen to Argentina to follow the
paganda and clandestine the Bormann investiga- Bormann case and his fi-

psychological forms of tion, based on Farago’s nancial trails well into the
espionage at the time, was documentary evidence of 1980’s. New elderly wit-

not safe from character survival. nesses, who till recently
assassination, ridicule and refused to talk have also
criticism. It is blatant there Farago, Manning, Thomas come forward in the past

were those that were de- and Kempner, are sadly 3 years and startling new
termined to keep the 1945 long gone, but the Bor- evidence has come to light

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