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40 Fascinating Facts About the Relatives of Nazis After WWII

Khalid Elhassan March 14, 2019 24 min

11. Martin Adolf Bormann

Martin Bormann and his son, Martin Adolf. New York Post

Martin Adolf Bormann was the eldest of ten children born to Martin Bormann, Adolf Hitler’s private secretary and the head of the Nazi Party’s Chancellery. Martin Adolf was Hitler’s first godson, and he grew up as an ardent Nazi, while his father’s power steadily grew within the Nazi hierarchy. Unfortunately for Bormann, Sr., he reached the pinnacle of power just as Nazi Germany came crashing down, and he disappeared in the war’s closing days while trying to escape from a besieged Berlin. His corpse was recovered and identified in 1972.

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Khalid Elhassan

A lifelong history buff, I developed a particular passion for WW2 history as a child, when I spent hours listening to my grandfather, enraptured, as he recounted his wartime experiences in the British East African Campaign and with the British 8th Army in North Africa.

I graduated with a history BA from George Mason University, then went on to get a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law. After lawyering for a decade, I moved to sunny Rio de Janeiro and a less demanding career, opening a tourism agency in Copacabana.

A big chunk of my free time is spent blogging (you can follow me on Quora https://www.quora.com/profile/Khalid-Elhassan ) or freelance writing, mostly about my favorite subject, history.