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...deposed Foreign Minister, was "a scoundrel." Rudolf Hess, a prisoner since he flew to Britain in 1941, was an unpredictable eccentric. After the attempt to kill Hitler last July, even Heinrich Himmler fell from grace. At the last, the man closest to the Führer was Martin Bormann...
...Elite. One of the charred bodies found by the Russians in Berlin was believed to be that of Martin Bormann, the last crown prince of Nazidom...
...they prepared for it by setting up two autonomous defense zones in the two-fifths of Germany they have left. For the southern zone, including the Nazi "redoubt," or Alpine bastion, command was vested in a triumvirate: Field Marshal Albert Kesselring; Gestapo boss Heinrich Himmler; Nazi party boss Martin Bormann. Adolf Hitler was not mentioned. Military operations in the northern zone were handed to Field Marshal Ernst Busch, but he will be kept in line by a trusted Nazi, Helmuth Friedrichs, holding direct command of all Elite Guard units...
...addition to his financial services to Nazidom, Bormann has made ideological contributions in the field of religion. Recently he told Party leaders: "Trying to produce order at the Vatican is a fault into which we Germans have unfortunately often fallen. . . . From the standpoint of the Reich it would have been most desirable if there had been, not one Pope, but at least two or, if possible, many more. They would have fought one another. The people must be wrested from the churches and their priests. Their influence must be permanently broken in the same way as the harmful influences...
Adolf Hitler has given Martin Bormann greater powers than any Party official ever had before. He can (theoretically) veto any law, must countersign all official appointments. He will often exercise these powers clad in one of his two dozen pairs of riding breeches. He cannot ride a horse...