Word: bormann
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...hunters of heads or headlines, no war criminal has been a more tantalizing quarry than Adolf Hitler's evil aide Martin Bormann. Since he vanished from Hitler's Berlin bunker the night after the Führer committed suicide in 1945, Bormann has been reported found hundreds of times: living as a recluse in the Amazon jungle, for instance, or masquerading as a monk in Italy. But none of the reports have ever been confirmed. Last week newspaper readers on both sides of the Atlantic were presented with the most elaborately packaged claim...
...London Daily Express, which bought the series from Farago and syndicated it to the New York Daily News and Chicago Tribune, trumpeted the package as "incontrovertible evidence" of Bormann's movements over the past 27 years. In a breathless promotion story, the Express announced: "All speculation concerning his fate can be swept aside following a dramatic and sometimes dangerous nine-month search through six South American countries for Bormann, the world's most wanted and most elusive man." In fact, as the series unfolded, it stirred up more speculation than it swept aside. Among the questions it raised...
...possibility exists, of course, that Bormann is in fact somewhere in South America, as many before Farago have claimed. Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal, head of the Jewish Documentations Center in Vienna, believes that Bormann actually did reach South America and judges the odds at fifty-fifty that he is still alive. But Farago, whose latest book was the bestselling documentary of intrigue, The Game of the Foxes, failed to prove his case. Some of his evidence was indeed controvertible, and much of it was questionable. In addition, some of it, presented as if it were being disclosed for the first...
Safer Refuge. Fact, fantasy or a mixture of both, the tale spun by Farago was undeniably fascinating. Bormann, he said, left the Führerbunker for safer refuge in another nearby bunker that had been prepared by Nazi Executioner Adolf Eichmann. According to Farago, Bormann later used clerical clothes supplied by an Austrian bishop to reach Bavaria, then moved on to Northern Italy to visit his fatally ill wife in Merano. After his wife died, Bormann lived in a Dominican monastery in Bolzano, awaiting a chance to flee to Argentina where he had stored a fortune in currency, precious stones...
According to Farago, Bormann lived comfortably in Argentina for seven years, acting as a sort of "Godfather" to other Nazi refugees, including Eichmann. But in 1955, when Perón lost power, Bormann no longer felt safe. He fled to Brazil and Bolivia, where he seemed to lead a checkered existence. At one stage, Farago had him visiting "prurient nightclubs"; at another, the fugitive Nazi posed as a priest and took part in baptisms, weddings and funerals. In 1960, Bormann moved again-this time to Chile. He bought a farm near Valdivia or Linares (Farago varied the location), close...