Word: bormann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...name of Martin Bormann suddenly popped into the news from Germany last week. It was reported, discussed and then denied, that the man Hitler chose to witness his political will had finally been found in the British zone. He was wanted in the prisoners' dock at Nürnberg. In this glaring end of Naziism, as in its dark beginnings, Martin Bormann was still a shadowy figure...
There were signs that at least two of the judges were not convinced that the prosecution was proving its case against even the intermediate echelons. Bald, stocky Sir Geoffrey Lawrence, presiding judge, cut in with some sharp questions. Storey read a letter from Reichsleiter Martin Bormann to Reichsleiter Alfred Rosenberg. Lawrence asked what the correspondence had to do with block leaders. Again, when Storey read an anti-Jewish police order from Himmler's Gestapo headquarters to district police chiefs, Lawrence interrupted: the letter's topic seemed to him a police, not a party matter. U.S. Judge Francis Biddle...
...former Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess, Air Minister Hermann Göring, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, Labor Boss Robert Ley, Nazi Philosopher-in-Chief Alfred Rosenberg, and many another. Missing were Adolf Hitler (supposedly dead), Joseph Goebbels (reported dead), Heinrich Himmler (dead), and elusive Martin Bormann, one of Hitler's closest aides. On the assumption that Bormann was still on the loose, although he was supposed to have died with the Führer, military police were still searching for him all over Europe...
...were in custody. The exception was Martin Bormann, Hitler's deputy and closest adviser in the final days. Contradictory reports that Bormann had or had not been found continued to fly between the Allied capitals...
...Bormann, Goebbels, Guensche, Linge and I stood at attention and gave a final Hitler salute. The artillery shells were coming in from all sides ... we were all very shaken...