Hitler's right-hand man, Martin Bormann whereabouts?

Question

Of all Hitler's henchmen, Martin Bormann was the most mysterious. Many historians claim that he is dead and many others claim that he is alive. Those who claimed that he is dead, didn't have any evidence of his body being ever found. He just simply disappeared and never heard of since leaving Hitler's bunker. Does anyone know where he really is?.

Answer 1

Just showed this on the history channel. His skull was positively identified after being found near the site of the old Reich Chancelry building in the 70's. Only thing wasa that the red mud on the skull was from Paraguay. Security personal from that country stated on the show that he lived there and died in 1958.

Answer 2

no n forgot this part:

Axmann's account gains support

Axmann and Krumnow's accounts were bolstered in late 1972 when construction workers uncovered human remains near the Lehrter Bahnhof in West Berlin just 12 meters from the spot where Krumnow claimed he had buried them. Dental records — reconstructed from memory in 1945 by Dr. Hugo Blaschke — identified the skeleton as Bormann's, and damage to the collarbone was consistent with injuries Bormann's sons reported he had sustained in a riding accident in 1939. Fragments of glass in the jawbones of both skeletons indicated that Bormann and Stumpfegger had committed suicide by biting cyanide capsules in order to avoid capture. Soon after, in a press conference held by the West German government, Bormann was declared dead, a statement condemned by London's Daily Express as a whitewash perpetrated by the Brandt government. West German diplomatic functionaries were given the official instruction: "If anyone is arrested on suspicion that he is Bormann we will be dealing with an innocent man."[4] In 1998, a test identified a skull as that of Bormann, using DNA from an unnamed 83-year-old relative.[5] Hugh Thomas' 1995 book Doppelgangers highlights forensic inconsistencies that suggest Bormann died much later than 1945.

According to Reinhard Gehlen's 1972 autobiography, The Service, Bormann was a Soviet agent throughout World War II.

Answer 3

Even though he was sentenced to death by the Nuremberg war crimes Court, Martin Bormann was not caught for execution. There were reports that Martin Bormann was was killed by the Russians in 1945 and as per another account he was seen in a North Italian Monastry. However I am sure a person born in 1900, he would have died by now.

Answer 4

Well, as far as I read about this subject matter is that he probably escaped to East America, some hispagnol country where most of the Nazi's (those who could) escaped anyway. They started a new life there under a different name, new identity and a lot of people assume that what Bormann did too. But I think even if her would be alive today, he would be very very old.

Answer 5

Bormann is certainly dead, he would now be about 112 if he wasnt!..Bormann was sighted quite a few times in Argentina and Bolivia, along with many other nazi's who managed to escape the Israeli's in the 50's and 60's!..All of these would now be dead!

Answer 6

Bormann was born in 1900. The last rumor of his whereabouts that I heard was in 1969 when he supposedly was living in luxury in South America. Rumors were flying about him for years. If he were alive today he would be approaching the age of 107.

Answer 7

Tried at Nuremberg in absentia

During the chaotic closing days of the war, there were contradictory reports as to Bormann's whereabouts. For example, Jakob Glas, Bormann's long-time chauffeur, insisted he saw Bormann in Munich weeks after May 1, 1945. The bodies were not found, and a global search followed including extensive efforts in South America. With no evidence sufficient to confirm Bormann's death, the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg tried Bormann in absentia in October 1946 and sentenced him to death. His court-appointed defence attorney used the unusual and unsuccessful defence that the court could not convict Bormann because he was already dead. In 1965, a retired postal worker named Albert Krumnow stated that he had personally buried the bodies of Bormann and Stumpfegger.

Two decades of unconfirmed sightings

Unconfirmed sightings of Bormann were reported globally for two decades, particularly in Europe, Paraguay, and elsewhere in South America. Some rumours claimed that Bormann had plastic surgery while on the run. At a 1967 press conference, Simon Wiesenthal asserted there was strong evidence that Bormann was alive and well in South America. Writer Ladislas Farago's widely-known 1974 book Aftermath: Martin Bormann and the Fourth Reich argued that Bormann had survived the war and lived in Argentina. Farago's evidence, which drew heavily on official governmental documents, was compelling enough to persuade Dr. Robert M. W. Kempner (a lawyer at the Nuremberg Trials) to briefly re-open an active investigation in 1972, but Farago's claims were generally rejected by historians and critics. Allegations that Bormann and his organization survived the war figure prominently in the work of David Emory.

Axmann's account gains support

Axmann and Krumnow's accounts were bolstered in late 1972 when construction workers uncovered human remains near the Lehrter Bahnhof in West Berlin just 12 meters from the spot where Krumnow claimed he had buried them. Dental records — reconstructed from memory in 1945 by Dr. Hugo Blaschke — identified the skeleton as Bormann's, and damage to the collarbone was consistent with injuries Bormann's sons reported he had sustained in a riding accident in 1939. Fragments of glass in the jawbones of both skeletons indicated that Bormann and Stumpfegger had committed suicide by biting cyanide capsules in order to avoid capture. Soon after, in a press conference held by the West German government, Bormann was declared dead, a statement condemned by London's Daily Express as a whitewash perpetrated by the Brandt government. West German diplomatic functionaries were given the official instruction: "If anyone is arrested on suspicion that he is Bormann we will be dealing with an innocent man."[3] In 1998, a test identified a skull as that of Bormann, using DNA from an unnamed 83-year-old relative.[4] Hugh Thomas' 1995 book Doppelgangers highlights forensic inconsistencies that suggest Bormann died much later than 1945.

According to Reinhard Gehlen's 1972 autobiography, The Service, Bormann was a Soviet agent throughout World War II.

Answer 8

In his way Stalin was another Hitler, and Stalin lasted longer in power, and died of old age, still in power. Stalin was in charge of Soviet Russia, a very powerful nation. Since that time there have been several dictators in charge of nations which have had wide influence, e.g.Ghaddafi in Libya (small nation by population, but big influence because of oil), Mao Tse Tung in China and Saddam Hussein in Iraq (oil, again, and look at the chaos in Iraq since he was deposed). Nobody can predict the future, but I would not be surprised to find a dictator in a similar position to Hitler at some time.

Answer 9

I seem to remember hearing on the History Channel that the Russians captured him, executed him and buried him under a bridge as he was trying to flee Germany. After the cold war they dug up his body.

Answer 10

I've never heard that he was found. I would say that at this point in time it is a safe assumption that he is dead.