Martin Bormann

Martin Bormann (June 17, 1900 – May 2, 1945) was a prominent German National Socialist official who became head of the Party Chancellery (Parteikanzlei) and Private Secretary to Adolf Hitler, gaining his trust and deriving immense power within the Third Reich by controlling access to the Nazi dictator.

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Born in Wegeleben (near Halberstadt), Germany the son of a post-office employee, Bormann dropped out of school to work on a farm in Mecklenburg. After serving briefly at the end of World War I, Bormann joined the Freikorps in Mecklenburg.

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In March 1924 he received a one-year sentence as an accomplice to his friend Rudolf H?ss in the brutal murder of Walther Kadow (who may have 'betrayed' Leo Schlageter to the French in the Ruhr).

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