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    Martin Bormann

    German Nazi Party official and head of the Nazi Party Chancellery

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  1. Theodor died when Bormann was three, and his mother soon remarried. Bormann's studies at an agricultural trade high school were interrupted when he joined the 55th Field Artillery Regiment as a gunner in June 1918, in the final months of World War I. He never saw action, but served garrison duty until February 1919.

    • 1918–1919, 1927–1945
    • Nazi Party
  2. Those who suggest Bormann made it to South America use the remains of the dead Nazi to further their case. Remember, the skull was apparently covered with red clay found in Paraguay and not Germany. After he had died, his remains were buried somewhere in South America.

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  4. Apr 30, 2024 · Died: May 1945, Berlin (aged 44) Political Affiliation: Nazi Party. Role In: World War II. Martin Bormann (born June 17, 1900, Wegeleben, near Halberstadt, Germanydied May 1945, Berlin) was a powerful party leader in Nazi Germany, one of Adolf Hitler ’s closest lieutenants. Martin Bormann.

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  5. Bormann died in an effort to flee Berlin in the last days of World War II, but was long thought to be at large. He was tried in absentia at Nuremberg, where he was sentenced to death. West German authorities officially declared him dead in 1973 after his remains were discovered and positively identified.

  6. Feb 25, 1993 · ASUNCION (AFP) - Martin Bormann, one of Adolf Hitler's closest aides, did not commit suicide in Berlin in 1945 but died in Paraguay 14 years later after being treated for stomach cancer by...

  7. Bormann's remains were cremated and his ashes were scattered in the Baltic Sea on August 16, 1999. Continuing Controversy. Some controversy continued, however. For example, Hugh Thomas' 1995 book Doppelgangers claimed there were forensic inconsistencies suggesting Bormann died later than 1945.

  8. Martin Bormann. Martin Bormann was born into a lower middle-class family in Prussia in 1900. In 1918 he was conscripted into the Imperial German Army, but World War I ended just weeks after his arrival on the Western Front. After the war, Bormann took up with a radical Freikorps unit, which was implicated in the assassination of several union ...