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...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...
...ramblings in the Führer's East Prussian and Russian headquarters between July 1941 and November 1944. They were taken down in shorthand by trusted party officials, Heinrich Heim and Henry Picker, then corrected and preserved by the Führer's factotum, SS Leader Martin Bormann.* Samples...
...Bormann disappeared during the tumultuous days of the Nazi defeat, but left the 1,045 typed pages of the Hitler transcript behind. British Historian H. R. Trevor-Roper, a leading expert on Hitler, affirms its authenticity...
They could not, unfortunately, deflate the "gaseous metaphysics" of Nazi doctrine, even in its final Götterdammerung convulsions. Martin Bormann, faithful to the end, pumped the Führer full of false hopes. Göring, in his Prussian retreat, dressed "now like an oriental Rajah, now in a light-blue uniform with a bejeweled baton of pure gold and ivory, now in white silk, like a Doge of Venice . . . studded with jewels . . . and a swastika of gleaming pearls. . . ." Himmler, deluded to the end, maintained a "school of eager researchers [who] studied . . . Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry, the symbolism...
...chivalry of General George S. Patton lived after him in a tale told by a German slave-laborer. The laborer, who said he had worked as a U.S. counter-intelligence agent after V-E day, claimed he had found Frau Martin Bormann, wife of Hitler's chief deputy, operating a kindergarten in the Austrian Tyrol in 1945. He also found that she was dying of cancer. The agent reported his discovery to Third Army HQ, was told General Patton's decision: "The woman should be allowed to die in peace." She did, a few months later, said...