Volume 21, Number 18 · November 14, 1974

Bormann's Last Gasp

By Hugh Trevor-Roper
Aftermath: Martin Bormann and the Fourth Reich
by Ladislas Farago

Simon & Schuster, 479 pp., $10.95

Martin Bormann is certainly very hard to kill. For nearly thirty years he has been neither proved dead nor proved alive. There is evidence of his death in Berlin on May 2, 1945—but it is the evidence of a single witness who perhaps thereby sought to protect a friend. There is also evidence that he escaped to Italy—but it is equally inconclusive. And there have been rumors—but so far they have been rumors only—of his survival in South America.



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