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MARTIN
BORMANN
NAZI IN EXILE
By Paul Manning
[FACSIMILE ELECTRONIC EDITION 2005]
To my wife, Peg, and to our four sons,
Peter, Paul, Gerald and John, whose
collective encouragement and belief in
this book as a work of historic impor-
tance gave me the necessary persistence
and determination to keep going.
First edition
Copyright © 1981 by Paul Manning
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be
reproduced in any form except by a newspaper
or magazine reviewer who wishes to quote
brief passages in connection with a review.
Queries regarding rights and permissions
should be addressed to:
Lyle Stuart Inc.,
120 Enterprise Ave., Secaucus, N. J. 07094
Published by Lyle Stuart Inc.
Published simultaneously in Canada by
Musson Book Company, a division of
General Publishing Co. Limited, Don Mills, Ont.
Manufactured in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Manning, Paul.
Martin Bormann, Nazi in exile.
Includes index.
1. Bormann, Martin, 1900-1943[?]. 2. National
socialism—Biography. 3. War criminals—Germany—
Biography. I. Title.
DD247.B65M36 943.086'092'4 [B]
81-5696
ISBN 0-8184-0309-8
AACR2
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
To Allen W. Dulles, f or his encouragement and assurance
that I was “on the right track, and should keep going,” af ter
reading my German research notes in preparation for this book,
during the af ternoons we talked in his house on Q Street in
Washington, D.C.
To Robert W. Wolf e, director of the Modern Military
Branch of the National Archives in Washington, his associate
John E. Taylor, and George Chalou, supervisor of archivists in
the Suitland, Maryland, branch of the National Archives, whose
collective assistance in my search f or telling documents f rom
both sides of World War II contributed substantially to the his-
torical merits of this book.
To those retired agents of the U.S. Treasury Department
whose reports and f iles brought into f ocus the magnitude of
Martin Bormann’s campaign to shif t the liquid assets of
Germany to neutral nations during the last months of the war.
To those German nationals who, for the sake of history and
to set the record straight about the leader they believe was the
mainspring of West Germany’s postwar recovery, contributed to
my knowledge and insights into the remarkable Bormann
organization.
ILLUSTRATIONS
Following page 96:
Bormann and Hitler at Berchtesgaden.
Eva Braun when she was secretary to Hitler’s personal photog-
rapher.
A party celebrating Hitler’s birthday, April 20, 1938.
Four photographs of the f irebombing of London taken by the
author.
Nazi Reich State Security Bureau (Gestapo) SS General Hein-
rich Mueller.
Purported grave of General Mueller in Berlin.
Fritz Thyssen, the Ruhr industrialist and early Hitler support-
er.
Following page 192:
Hans Bernd Gisevius, a German underground leader, giving
testimony at Nuremberg.
Allen Welsh Dulles when he was Roosevelt’s personal emissary
to Switzerland.
Hermann Schmitz, chief executive of ficer of I.G. Farben.
Bormann’s capitulation message to Grand Admiral Doenitz.
Travel permit of Hans (Juan) Baumann, f riend of Martin
Bormann, from the files of the FBI.
A conf idential memo f rom J. Edgar Hoover regarding
Baumann.
A joint bank account shared by Bormann and Juan Perón.
Bormann’s eldest son, Adolph.
Hermann Schmitz being sentenced at Nuremberg.
The author with Dr. Hermann J. Abs, Honorary President of
Deutsche Bank A.G.
Paul Manning as a CBS news correspondent during World
War II.
PREFACE
DID THE WORLD EVER REALLY KNOW MARTIN
Bormann? A man of indescribably vast power and the sole
trustee of Hitler’s secrets af ter May 1, 1945, in the Berlin
bunker, Bormann continues to be the most controversial, per-
plexing figure of our times. There are those who wish him dead
and continue to claim he is; f or were he to emerge, it would
embarrass the governments that assisted in his escape, the
industrial and financial leaders who benefited from his acumen
and transf erred their capital to neutral nations in the closing
days of World War II, and the businessmen of four continents
who profited from the 750 corporations he established through-
out the world as depositories of money, patents, bearer bonds,
and shares in blue chip industries of the United States and
Europe.
There are also those who know he is not dead, and I am
among those who hold this belief . When I penetrated the
silence cloaking this story, after countless interviews and labori-
ous research in German and American archives f or revealing
documents of World War II, I knew that the Bormann saga of
flight capital and his escape to South America was really true.
It had been covered up by an unparalleled manipulation of pub-
lic opinion and the media. The closer I got to the truth, the
more quiet attention I received from the forces surrounding and
protecting Martin Bormann, and also f rom those who had a
direct interest in halting my investigation. Over the period of
years it took to research this book, I was the object of diligent
observation by squads of Gestapo agents dispatched from South
America by General “Gestapo” Mueller, who directs all securi-
ty matters f or Martin Bormann, Nazi in exile, and his organi-
zation, the most remarkable business group anywhere in the
secret world of today. Mueller’s interest in me, an American
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