![]() It is enough to say that, on the present balance of evidence, it is quite possible that Bormann alive. However, for the moment I will leave that problem in suspense. Meanwhile, we are promised further documentation of Bormann's death for a skeleton, alleged to be that of Bormann, has been found in Berlin, and Herr Fritz Echtmann, the dental mechanic who made fittings for Bormann's (and Hitler's) teeth, is preparing a report on it. Some links in his chain of reasoning seem to me to require closer documentation. But I must admit that I am not yet convinced by Mr. I will discuss these reasons in due course. I have my own reasons for thinking that Bormann may well have escaped to Italy and thence to South America. Farago and I do not exclude the possibility that he is right. I have a great respect for the courage and resourcefulness of Mr. He states that he has satisfied himself, and has evidence to satisfy others, that Bormann, with the help of the Vatican and the Argentine dictator Juan Péron, escaped to Argentina in 1949 that he has been living in Argentina or Chile ever since and that he is protected there by a powerful Nazi organization and by his control of immense sums of money which, with the bought complicity of Finally, Ladislas Farago, an enterprising writer who was himself an intelligence officer during the war, has made an exhaustive personal search for Bormann in South America. Von Glasenapp, has been systematically seeking evidence about Bormann but seems to have found nothing concrete. ![]() Had it been true, it was Gehlen's duty to report it long ago and his belated “revelation” has only damaged his own credibility. ![]() For this story there neither evidence nor probability. Reinhard Gehlen, former Nazi, former chief of the German Federal Intelligence Service, declared publicly, from his own certain knowledge, that Bormann, even while serving Hitler, had been a Russian spy that after Hitler's death he had gone to Russia and that he had since died in Russia. There are persistent rumors that he is alive in South America, but so far he has not been identified there. Is Bormann alive or dead? We do not know. If he should be found alive, it would be the duty of the four major powers who set up the tribunal, and whose authority still subsists in Germany, to carry out the sentence. In the end he was presumed living and sentenced to death in absence. His survival also was reported but the reports were insubstantial. His death in Berlin was reported, but could not be confirmed. Of the major war criminals who were arraigned before the international military tribunal at Nuremberg in 1945, he alone could not be found. ![]() Martin Bormann, Hitler's deputy, has been the most wanted man in Europe for 27 years. ![]()
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