Word: bormann
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adolf Hitler's brutal deputy, Martin Bormann, was notorious for his hatred of religion, took particular care that "none of my children gets depraved and diseased by the poison of Christianity." In 1945 Deputy Führer Bormann's son Martin, 15, was sent off to war in the Brenner Pass area as a member of the Hitler Youth "Werewolf" volunteers. In the Nazi holocaust, Party Leader Bormann vanished. Last week it became plain how completely Bormann had failed to guide his son along his own paths. After studying for nine years, Martin Bormann, 28, was consecrated...
Double Indemnity. In Usen, Germany, when Heinrich Bormann tried to hang himself from a branch overhanging a creek, the branch broke and he was drowned...
...alive. An unquiet grave. Teletypes chatter, switchboards mumble, telephones scream, messengers dart. Behind closed doors the generals wrangle: How much do they dare tell Hitler of how desperate the situation is? The politicians gather nervously for the Führer's birthday party. Goebbels, Göring, Himmler, Bormann, Speer-the likenesses are good enough to inspire shudders. Eva Braun (Lotte Tobisch), in her frumpy frock and country perm, might have stepped right out of the photograph on Hitler's desk...
...After Grand Admiral Doenitz (now in Berlin's Spandau jail), Goebbels (who shot himself), Martin Bormann (still missing, presumed alive), Seyss-Inquart (hanged at Nürnberg), and Gauleiter Paul Giesler (killed...
...BORMANN LETTERS, edited by H. R. Trevor-Roper (200 pp.; British Book Centre; $3.75), a selection from correspondence between Hitler's mysterious "Brown Eminence" and his wife, is a fascinating document of the dreadful Nazi Utopia. They demonstrate with many expressions of endearment ("My dearest Mummy-Girl") that Martin Bormann (still missing after years of Allied search) was a human being-if a horribly peculiar one. The Bormanns raised a perfect Aryan family of nine, taking care that "none of our children gets depraved and diseased by the poison of Christianity." One day in January 1944, Bormann jubilantly informed...