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...former Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess, Air Minister Hermann Göring, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, Labor Boss Robert Ley, Nazi Philosopher-in-Chief Alfred Rosenberg, and many another. Missing were Adolf Hitler (supposedly dead), Joseph Goebbels (reported dead), Heinrich Himmler (dead), and elusive Martin Bormann, one of Hitler's closest aides. On the assumption that Bormann was still on the loose, although he was supposed to have died with the Führer, military police were still searching for him all over Europe...
...were in custody. The exception was Martin Bormann, Hitler's deputy and closest adviser in the final days. Contradictory reports that Bormann had or had not been found continued to fly between the Allied capitals...
...April 29 in the Führer's shelter at the Berlin Reichs-Chancellery. He was "quiet and normal." The next afternoon Elite Guard Leader Otto Guensche telephoned Kempka to get a quantity of gasoline and report to the Führer's shelter. Party Chancellor Martin Bormann, Joseph Goebbels, Elite Guardsman Heinz Linge were there. "I ... found Bormann carrying the body of Frau Hitler-I learned later about the wedding two days before. I took the body from Bormann. It was warm and limp. Blood trickled from her left breast. I carried it to an exit leading...
...Bormann, Goebbels, Guensche, Linge and I stood at attention and gave a final Hitler salute. The artillery shells were coming in from all sides ... we were all very shaken...
...Russians had caught Martin Bormann, a powerful but little-known party leader who, toward the end, was the Nazi closest to Hitler...