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The MISSING NAZI

USSIAN shells thumped into

Razing badings

the

It was

May 1, 1945, and the war with Germany was as good as over.

Adolf Hitler, the one-time corporal who had started the war, had killed him- self and his lieutenants' were trying to escape.

What happened to Hitler's deputy fuhrer ? Did he escape death in a tank crippled by gunfire?

A small group of German him in his absence at the Tiger tanks rumbled on to the Nuremburg war crimes - trials Weidendammer Bridge across after the war. He is also a man the River Spree. In one of who has been officially pro- them crouched Martin Bormann, nounced dead by another court. Hitler's deputy and closest friend.

Is he alive or dead?

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: But the bridge, was blocked. Bormann, who would be 60 HENRY Anti-tank guns and bazookas now if he is still alive, was once opened fire and ripped holes in a land agent. He became a the armour. Flames shot from Nazi when he was 25 and а the tanks and dust and smoke general of the $.S. eight years obscured the scene.

later.

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LEWIS

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A report said Bormann landed in South America from a U-boat

Bormann

Did Borman die in the battle?

After Rudolf Hess, Hitler's Or did he makę good his escape? The mystery has remained un- deputy fuhrer, ded to Scotland

In 1954 solved for 15 years.

was de 1941, flying himself in

An interpreter reported that was certain he had seen his bosa

clared legally dead-on May 2, Now a new hunt has started stolen plane, Bormann, Hess's he had seen Bormann in a train in Munich.

Another German såid he saw 1945, the day Berlin surrender- for Germany's wartime No. 2. chief of staff, moved up into the at Flensburg. 100 miles north The Israeli agents who, earlier job.

towards the Danish border. on Bormann in a Swiss bordered to the Russians. This was June 26, nearly two months town. this year, startled the world by tracing and kidapping Adolf Eichmann, another Nazi high-up to stand trial for killing millions of Jews in concentration camps, are now determined to get Bor- mann, the most wanted man in the world.

He is a man with a death sen- tence

He was with Hitler in his air later. himelf. raid shelter before Hitler shot And it was Bormanın burial of his chef's body in the who supervised the burning and.

Chancellory garden.

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From a V-boat

Then came a report that Bor- of his mann and Hitler had been seen Then, he told secretaries: "There isn't much together in Hamburg, while in Sweden it was reported that cesting on a pirate' radio station and claiming that Hitler was still alive.

done to help Bormann's widow and children, one of whom is'

This year there fave been

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At the same time South now a Roman Cathoặc priest. American

the police joined hunt

usual brach of reports. after a report that Bor- the mann had landed at Rawson, One was that Bomann died Argentina, from a U-boat that two years ago in the Argentine

of natural causes. Another was. was later sunk by its crew.

that be went to a doctor in Buenos Aires suffering from a

on his head-passed on sense in it now but I'll try to Bormann had been heard broad. land Yard started a search in heart disease. The doctor - was

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Membership in the 17-21 Club is open to all within that age group.

get away. Probably I shan't get through."

In 1947 a message from Scot- Egypt. And America circulated Bormann's description to all her embassies and consulates.

a Jew. He recognised Bormann and carried out the death sea- tence of the court with a fatal injection.

What happened? Hans Bauer, Hitler's pilot, and Erich Kemple,

For a time there was a mystery

Colonel Alexander Scotland, According to a Prague paper his chauffeur, who were in the that Hitler might still be alive, one of our top wartime Intelli- he is hiding out at a monastery same escape bid, told the Allies But investigators were soon gence men, who questioned in Spain. (The zmonastery that Bormann was killed when satisfied that he did die in his Field-Marshal Kesselring and theory comes up regularly). the tanks were knocked out. But

shelter. Of Bormann though other German war criminals, Some people think he wa both men were seriously wound- they could only be certain of his said: "We do not accept the captured by the Russians and ed and no one could be sure they movements as far as the bridge. report that Bormann was killed now works for them as an were right.

Hermann Goering, the fat on the bridge in 1945." The Intelligence expert

Colonel Scotland still thinks Berlin was full of bodies at commander of the German air colonel thought that Bormann,

or he is in South America in that time and Bormann could force and other German leaders was in Uruguay or Brazil

Uruguay. have been buried without being were brought to trial at Nurem possibly Spain. recognised, especially if he had burg Bormann was tried with false papers.

them in his absence-in case he was alive.

The big hunt got under way a few weeks later when order had been restored to the city. For Bormann, es Hiller's deputy, was a wanted man.

Suc-

was

was Bormann.”

Israel is hopeful

But a man named Joseph Keenan claimed that, he had seen Barnern in Sydney, Aus- And in 1946 he was found tralia. Keenan had met Bar-

It may be sa Who could guilty of war crimes and sen- mann before in 1932 and he have expected Adolf Eichmann tenced to death. He was found said: "I would bet all the to be caught in South America responsible for persecuting the tea in China the man I saw 15 years after the end of the

He Churches and the Jews.

war? Israel is hopeful that Our investigators began

found responsible for

Bormann will be found there searching the prison camps in

The German gave him.

a too. While in Flensburg, Ger- Contributions and all ac- the belief that he might have harsh and illegal treatment of

prisoners and slave workers. He Hitler salute and got into a car, many, the public prosecutor

has reopened an investigations. tivities of the Club will been taken prisoner and

the lynching of allied airmen. be limited to members ceeded in keeping his identity was also found responsible for he said.

Every year that has passed Unlike many mysteries this is only.

Where was he? An ex-S.S. since then has brought a crop one that may well be sorved. It was true that he might have

Hans Joachim von of rumours and reports about Did Bormann die in Berlin? been killed on the bridge. But officer,

1953 an Italian Or did he escape? If he es- Contributions may consist rumours that he had got away Burgsdorf reported that he saw Bormann. In

claimed Bormann in Heidelberg a month Paper

Bormann had ésped, is he still alive today? of anything that is were spreading fast,

before And if so, where? What is be publishable articles, A prisoner said he saw Bor- after the fall of Berlin and Bor- died in Rome the year

mann leave Hamburg SS. bar- mann had promoted him from and had been buried under the doing?

of Roberts. Borman One thing certain. If be stories, photo-macks by car with a party of SS. major to colonel. letters,

had escaped from Germany to is still alive he must be, since graphs, drawings, verses. officers on the night of May 1,

Jakos Glas, who was once South America and later re- the capture of Eichmann, 2 But only the best will several hours after the tank

Bormann's chauffeur, said he turned to Europe, it claimed very frightened man. be printed.

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