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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...
Purchasing Agent. Few knew this sly-eyed World War I gunner well. One wretched little man who did was Walter Kadow, who stole the funds of a gang of political assassins in the '205. Bormann served a year in jail for his part in Kadow's murder...
Tunnel of Fear. Little by little, top Nazi leaders learned to fear Martin Bormann. He had been made chief of the inner Gestapo that policed top Nazis. Reich Marshal Goring blocked up the tunnel that led from Bormann's Berchtesgaden house...
Bunker Voice. As the end drew near, Bormann's voice came over . the radio from Hitler's bunker in Berlin, broadcasting orders and proclamations. When the Russians reached the bunker, Bormann was gone. Some Nazis claimed that he had died leading a last effort to break free...
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...