Born on 17 June 1900, Martin Ludwig Bormann became one of the most
powerful and most feared men in the Third Reich. An obsessive
bureaucrat, it was Bormann who helped steer Hitler's apparatus of
terror so effectively that he became the clandestine ruler of Nazi
Germany. After joining the Nazi Party in 1927 Bormann rose through
its ranks. Indeed, by July 1933 Bormann had manoeuvered himself
into the position where he became the Chief of Cabinet in the
Office of the Deputy F hrer, Rudolf Hess. In this role Bormann
gradually consolidated his power base, so that when Hess carried
out his infamous flight to the United Kingdom in 1941, Bormann
stepped into his shoes. As the head of the Party Chancellery,
Bormann duly took control of the Nazi Party. By the end of 1942, he
was in effect Hitler's deputy and his closest collaborator. With
the F hrer increasingly preoccupied with military matters, Hitler
came to rely more and more on Bormann to handle Germany's domestic
affairs. On 12 April 1943, Bormann was appointed Personal Secretary
to the F hrer. Feared by ministers, Gauleiters, civil servants,
judges and generals alike, Bormann identified strongly with
Hitler's ideas on racial politics, destruction of the Jews and
forced labour and made himself indispensable as the F hrer's
executioner. Cold as ice, he decided the fate of millions of
people. In January 1945, with the Third Reich collapsing, Bormann
returned to the F hrerbunker with Hitler. Following Hitler's
suicide on 30 April, Bormann was named as Party Minister, thus
officially confirming his rise to the top of the Party. Late the
following day he fled from the bunker in an attempt to escape the
encircling Red Army; his fate remaining a mystery for many years.
In October 1946 he was found guilty in absentia by the
International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg and sentenced to
death. Drawing heavily on recently declassified documents and
files, the historian and journalist Volker Koop reveals the full
story of the most faithful member of Hitler's inner circle, an
individual who, whilst little known to the German people, became
the second most powerful man in the Third Reich.
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