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Adolf Hitler appointed a successor to Rudolf Hess as second in the Nazi line of succession, following porcine Hermann Goring. The world had heard little of the appointee, Martin Bormann, but he was soundly qualified...
Short, crop-haired, 42-year-old Martin Bormann was a schoolboy bully in Halberstadt near the Harz Mountains. After World War I he studied agriculture in Mecklenburg, where he joined a murderous anti-Republican gang whose pastime was beating workmen as they left their beer halls. This connection led him into the German Workers Party, predecessor of the Nazis...
...Bormann was arrested for taking part in Hitler's attempted Munich Putsch, got a year in jail. Later he proved himself a nimble manipulator of Party funds, was treasurer of Hitler's 1932 Hilf-skasse racket, whereby money supposedly collected for injured Storm Troopers was turned over to Nazi leaders. Bormann enjoyed Party finance; in 1936 he bought a Mercedes-Benz deluxe for 38,000 marks. He rose to be Hess's administrative right hand, also got close to Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler...
During the weeks just before Hess's flight to Britain, Bormann began to replace him ceremonially. He marched in Hess's place directly behind Hitler during the Führer's birthday celebration in April 1941. Since Hess's flight. Bormann has seen Hitler regularly, even on the Russian front...