Word: bormann
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When World War II ended, among the mysteriously missing was Martin Bormann, last deputy and close adviser of Adolf Hitler. Was he dead, or hiding? Nobody admits knowing. Now Bormann's son, Adolf Martin Bormann, is also missing, but for more romantic reasons. The 41-year-old Bormann, who became a priest in 1958, has left the order of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to marry. Bormann is waiting final clearance from the Vatican to wed a former nun in the Dominican order, so far identified only as "Sister Cordula...
...Despite the Vatican's obvious hostility to Communism, Hitler was obsessed with the illogical idea that Rome and the Russians were about to form an alliance. Thus when Pius in 1942 ordered two monsignori to study Russian, the order stirred apprehensive speculation in Berlin. Nazi leaders like Martin Bormann and Reinhardt ("The Hangman") Heydrich were also interested in what Heydrich called "political Catholicism." Certain that the church was attempting to establish a political alternative to the Nazi Party in Germany, they monitored all contacts between Rome and the German bishops for signs of scheming...