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Martin Bormann alive and rich in Argentina? Not according to the latest word from Berlin. During some excavations, workmen found two skulls, one of which has been tentatively identified as that of Dr. Ludwig Stumpfegger, Hitler's surgeon, who was scurrying down the street with Bormann when both men disappeared. As for the other skull, the teeth resemble those of the Nazi leader, and there is a deformation over the right eye, where Bormann had a scar. German officials promised to announce the results of their examinations in mid-January. Paramount Pictures, planning a movie on Bormann...
...Vatican has been severely criticized in recent years for failing to speak out during the Hitler era against the persecution of Jews. But what if a Pope had issued a stinging encyclical in the late 1930s that did speak out on this issue? According to a copyrighted story last week in the National Catholic Reporter, such an encyclical was actually drafted for Pope Pius XI in 1938 by the late American Jesuit scholar John LaFarge and two fellow Jesuits. But the document was never promulgated by Pius, who died in 1939. The LaFarge draft, found among the priest...
...successful campaign to ban the 1976 Winter Olympics from the state. The California Supreme Court earlier this year slowed construction of high-rise ski condominiums in the southern Sierras. Bavarian officials have squelched a plan to open for skiing the 8,901-ft. Watzmann Mountain near Berchtesgaden, Hitler's mountaintop retreat...
...Monday night, Kennedy destroyed the McGovern campaign's line of attack on Nixon. "I, for one, will extend the olive branch to the Administration in the coming Congress." Kennedy said--a peaceful gesture to a man who McGovern had compared indirectly to Hitler. His prepared speech went further: it praised Nixon for "effective action" in the economy, and gushed that the trip to China brought the U.S. out of the "Dark Ages." Kennedy's statements, in contrast to the solidly strident noises of the 1972 campaign, seemed almost a rebuke to the McGovernites, a signal of a return...
...hunters of heads or headlines, no war criminal has been a more tantalizing quarry than Adolf Hitler's evil aide Martin Bormann. Since he vanished from Hitler's Berlin bunker the night after the Führer committed suicide in 1945, Bormann has been reported found hundreds of times: living as a recluse in the Amazon jungle, for instance, or masquerading as a monk in Italy. But none of the reports have ever been confirmed. Last week newspaper readers on both sides of the Atlantic were presented with the most elaborately packaged claim...