Operation James Bond?

Question

My dad told me about a book he was reading called operation james bond in which the author claims that he and Ian flemming where tasked by Churchill to rescue the Nazi Martin Bormann and bring him to The UK at the end of world war 2.
The author claims that they substituted a body for Bormann and left the dead body on the rail tracks to fool the allies into thinking Bormann was dead, and that the mission was a success and Bormann was brought to the UK.
Does anybody know if this is true or just a work of fiction?

Answer 1

Clearly, it is a work of fiction. The real Martin Bormann was dead, and positive identification of his remains was proven by German forensic scientists. And besides, Martin Bormann was the Nazi Party Secretary and is Adolf Hitler's right-hand man. He was tried in absentia at the Nuremberg War Crime Trials after WWII and given the death penalty. So, the argument is: why would Churchill want to save Bormann?. It was very unlikely that Churchill would save such a war criminal.

Another point of argument is that Ian Fleming introduced the fictional character James Bond in his first spy novel "Casino Royale" which was published in 1953 (eight years after WWII). So, how is it possible that a WWII mission can be named Operation James Bond?.

Answer 2

There is no proof that Bormann committed suicide. A member of the Hitler Youth, who was later blinded by a war wound, claimed to have seen Bormann's body. But rumors persisted that he had been spotted as far as Argentina in 1946. His body was never found so there is no substantial evidence that he killed himself or ever escaped to South America. The UN declared him dead in 1973.