Adolf Hitler, whose sensational escape to freedom from the Allied forces closing in on Berlin was first revealed by the Police Gazette last March, has now set in motion the initial moves of his plan to recapture control of Germany and launch a new attempt at world domination.
The sinister pattern of the Fuehrer’s plan has been thrown into sharp relief by recent events in the Bonn capital of the Western Zone of this defeated and divided nation, which came so close to imposing ruthless dictatorship upon Europe.
Nazis, who had gone underground and were operating undercover since the unconditional surrender of The Fatherland and the official “death” of Hitler, have received new instructions from their Fuehrer’s hiding place in the Antarctic. These orders, the Police Gazette is convinced after careful investigation, were relayed through Martin Bormann, Hitler’s personal secretary and confidant, who was named by the dictator as executor of his personal Last Will and Testament, and who escaped from Berlin after staging the mock suicide of the Fuehrer.
These Nazis are now running openly for office in Parliament or other offices under various party labels. Invariably, somewhere in their political campaigns, is a scarcely disguised glorification of Hitler and the new Reich of which he dreams.
The Military Intelligence Service of the United States Army has taken official note of the rebirth of Nazism in Western Germany. Seated at his desk in the Pentagon, beside a huge map of the Western Zone of Germany, Major-General Richard C. Partridge, Chief of the US Intelligence Branch, told the Police Gazette:
“We have had complete reports on the revival of Nazism in Germany. We have heard about the way these former Hitler followers are running for office once again.”
Once more Major-General Partridge took a positive stand on the question of Hitler’s “suicide” and assured the Police Gazette:
“We have never received any definite proof that Hitler is dead.”
He confirmed that no country held this proof.
The facts concerning Hitler’s impending bid once again for the leadership of the German people are simple and self-evident. They fall into two distinct categories—two stages of a plot to put Adolf Hitler, Fuehrer of the Third Reich, back into power as the Fuehrer of the Fourth Reich!
To begin, there is the story of Martin Bormann. It is the sordid, despicable tale of Hitler’s brutish, murderous henchman and “successor”; of how he escaped from Berlin; how he faithfully carried out the Fuehrer’s orders and secretly prepared the first steps of the Nazi movement.
The Inseparable Link
On top of that, there is that rebirth of the Nazi spirit in Germany itself; the mysterious electioneering programs that have recently put so many former Nazis into office under the present democratic Bonn government and in municipalities throughout the Western Zone.
These two stages may appear poles apart but, in reality, they are inseparably linked. Without Martin Bormann’s amazing plan to cover the Fuehrer’s escape and his own flight from Berlin as Russian troops closed in—without his single-minded ruthless and fanatic devotion and utter loyalty to the Nazi cause, Hitler would have been captured and executed ignominiously, and the entire Nazi movement, with its tremendous force for destruction and evil, would not at present be stirring in resurrection!
Martin Bormann is responsible, more than any other person, including Hitler himself, for this Nazi revival. Inextricably interwoven with Hitler’s attempt to seize power again is the story of his evil genius and secret agent, Martin Bormann.
Martin Bormann bludgeoned his way to the top ranks of the Nazi party. A bloated, bullnecked, scar-faced thug, with receding hairline, swarthy complexion, cold, penetrating eyes, and the manners of a pig, Bormann is one of the most cold-blooded killers ever to have belonged to a party of lustful executioners. Nazi officials who thought they could criticize Bormann’s dirty fingernails or his Chinese-type table manners, found themselves lucky to be merely in jail or in a concentration camp.
Wanted by the Allies as a war criminal, with a price on his head, Martin Bormann is a comparatively young 53. He is a confirmed Red-hater from the time when he joined a group of war veterans in the Baltic.
Back in Germany, Bormann became a blackmailer, back-alley thug and petty mobster. His powerful, stocky frame and “mugging” operations brought him favorable recognition by the Rossbach “Free Corps” group in Mecklenburg in 1922. In 1924 he escaped the gallows when convicted of complicity in one of the political assassinations common to German politics of that era and only drew one year in jail.
It was after this that Bormann joined Hitler’s newly-formed Nazi group, taking part in the illfated putsch, before becoming assistant to Rudolf Hess, then Hitler’s white-haired boy. Even in those early days of Hitler’s rise to power Bormann played cannily. Nazi officials whispered quite openly that Bormann had betrayed S.S. leader Roehm to Hitler, resulting in his “execution” and the shooting of thousands of Nazi storm troopers.
Becomes Hitler’s Aide
From strong-arm thug to a personal friend of Hitler, Martin Bormann played every angle with cunning. As assistant to Hess from 1933 on, he soon made himself useful to the Fuehrer.
When Hitler wanted to build his famous Eagle’s Eyrie at Berchtesgaden, Martin Bormann undertook to clear the local farmers and inhabitants from the neighborhood. Half-a-dozen of the more important Nazi officials such as Field Marshal Hermann Goering wanted villas near Hitler. That was arranged, but by this “arranging” Bormann became a multimillionaire in real estate. He “acquired” the only respectable inn in Berchtesgaden by the simple expedient of arresting and executing the owner.
When Rudolf Hess fled to England at the beginning of the War, Bormann became Hitler’s personal secretary. The onetime thug and murderer had come a long way, further than anyone had thought possible even when in 1927 he had been Nazi press chief in Thuringia.
Prepared Fuehrer’s Escape
Martin Bormann had no friends or confidants. His schemes were in his head. As the war news worsened for the Germans, Bormann became Hitler’s only confidant. It was Bormann who evolved and prepared the entire plan for Hitler’s escape; it was Bormann who staged the final flight to the Antarctic hideout.
The German Volksturm, a Home Guard of old and disabled, was placed under the direct personal orders of Martin Bormann. He ran it for the protection of the Fuehrer.
In 1945 the situation became desperate. In Hitler’s “bunker” shelter in Berlin, Bormann saw that the end was near and that it was time for the Fuehrer to escape. The plans had been prepared. Now they were to be carried through.
Hitler’s personal will was signed with Martin Bormann named executor. Then his official Last Will and Testament was prepared and signed. Within minutes of signing his will, Hitler was speeding away to Norway in a small plane while Bormann carried through the plan. News that Goering was attempting to negotiate with the Russians reached Bormann and he flew into almost an insane rage, according to eyewitness reports brought out at the Nuremberg trial of the Nazi leaders. He rushed off an urgent coded signal to the Gestapo officials at Berchtesgaden, where Goering was staying, that the Marshall should be executed on the spot. Bormann had overreached himself in this one particular. A reply came back that the officers could not shoot Goering unless ordered personally by Hitler. Bormann had already “suicided” Hitler; he could not bring him back to life again without exposing the whole plan of escape.
Within minutes after Hitler’s sudden departure, Martin Bormann sent a message to Grand Admiral Doenitz:
Dear Grand Admiral:
Since all our divisions failed to appear our situation seems to be beyond hope.
The Fuehrer dictated last night the attached political Testament.
Heil Hitler, yours,
(signed) Martin Bormann.
This was followed within a few hours by the announcement by Doenitz of Hitler’s “suicide.”
Bormann had only one task to carry out before he could make his own escape. It was a task on
which the entire escape plot rested.
Carrying the body of a Hitler double, Bormann held an impromptu funeral pyre in the grounds of the Chancellery. A few witnesses later testified that Hitler had been cremated. They had not seen Hitler’s face; they had not seen his body. The Russians, who found this partly cremated body, formally declared that the body was not that of Hitler.
“The teeth did not match dental charts of Hitler’s teeth,” they informed President Truman, Prime Minister Churchill, and Premier Stalin at the Potsdam meeting.
As Major-General Partridge confirmed in the Pentagon a few weeks ago:
“We have never received any definite proof of Hitler’s death.”
Martin Bormann was now ready to leave. To the world, Hitler had committed suicide.
Bormann Disappears
The Police Gazette talked to numerous soldiers, German civilians and war correspondents who were on the Berlin scene within hours of Bormann’s flight. Painstakingly, the story was pieced together. It is a dramatic tale, worthy of some greater cause.
Taking two of Hitler’s servants with him, Bormann left the bunker by the exit near the main Chancellery door. He had waited until May 2, when his short-wave radio picked up a coded message telling him the Fuehrer was safe in Norway and about to board a U-boat for Colombia, which Bormann had picked as the first hide away for his Fuehrer.
Bent almost double, Bormann and the two servants ran a zigzag course across the Wilhelmstrasse and the open ground leading to the Kaiserhof about a 100 yards away. The ground was swept by intermittent shellfire and Russian snipers were shooting wildly.
In front of the Kaiserhof, he ducked into the U-bahn (subway) entrance and once again was back underground in comparative safety.
Walking down the deserted, rusting subway tracks, Bormann came to the end of the line—an abrupt end caused by a British bomb which had split open the tube and flooded the subway system from that point on. Several thousand Germans, who had been sheltering from the bombs in this part of the subway, had been killed outright or drowned and trampled by water or the ensuing panic. Allied observers later reported the “stench as terrifying.”
At this point, according to Allied reports, Bormann climbed up an emergency exit ladder at the side of the tunnel. He came out above ground near the Admiralpalast.
He was now on the last lap of his escape route. Near the outskirts of the city he had to cross the bridge over the canal leading to the main road west. Only this one danger spot faced him—the bridge. Russian snipers were shooting at every sign of life on this main thoroughfare.
It was six o’clock in the morning. Day had broken. Off to one side, in the shelter of a building, stood a German tank. Bormann showed his Hitler Secretary pass and his Reichleiter’s authority to commandeer any unit of the German armed forces at any time. Orders passed and the German tank moved slowly off, Bormann trotting alongside in its lee, while one of Hitler’s chauffeurs and the other servant strode along the opposite side.
The tank revved up. The tank rolled across the bridge. Within two yards of the end, a bazooka shell exploded with devastating effect against the side of the tank, which burst into flames. A MAN WALKING ON THE SIDE NEAREST THE ENEMY WAS KILLED; HIS BODY DECAPITATED.
That man, say the Germans, was Martin Bormann. Yet two independent witnesses, the tank commander and one of the machine gunners, state that Bormann was walking on the side opposite the enemy.
The Russian bazooka corporal, too, afterwards stated that he saw two men running from the tank, fired at them with his rifle and missed. One of them was a squat, heavy-set man …
Months in Hiding
That man was Bormann. Bormann did not die on the bridge, as was afterwards proved when he showed up at the Swiss border, crossed and spent several months hiding as an unsuspected alien in that neutral country before visiting his Fuehrer in Colombia. Bormann had escaped.
Seen fleetingly in various countries, the last reports stated that Martin Bormann had been contacting various Nazi supporters in Italy. The Police Gazette questioned Major-General Partridge about these reports.
“It is quite true, he said. “We received exactly the same reports.”
The Secret Behind Nazi Plot to Regain Power
by GEORGE McGRATH
Police Gazette gives facts that prove the sinister hand of Hitler moves behind the shocking alliance of Nazis and Reds in Germany today.
It is a sinister, brutal, but damningly true fact that Adolf Hitler, defeated Nazi dictator of the Third Reich, and Joseph Stalin, his Communist archenemy of World War II, have now joined forces and together are completing their plans for the domination of the entire world.
Almost eight years to the day after the Western powers, in unwilling but necessary alliance with Russia, defeated Germany and brought an end to the bloodiest conflict in the history of the world, these two dictators, with cynical disregard for civilized morality, are now preparing to resume their brief, world-shocking alliance of 1939. They are determined to crush all freedom-loving peoples under the jackboot of Nazi autocracy and the knout of Soviet imperialism.
The facts are clear. The holocaust these Nazi and Communist leaders seek to precipitate has been evident, but officialdom in Washington and London remained blind and deaf to the danger until a few weeks ago, when British Intelligence agents followed the trail pointed months before in the Police Gazette and swooped down on a small but important band of Soviet-financed Nazi ringleaders in Western Germany.
Although the British Intelligence Service has refused to make public any of the facts bared by the arrest of these seven top leaders of the Nazi underground, Mr. Ivonne Kirkpatrick, British High Commissioner in Germany, is known to have disclosed to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer that its ramifications assumed “extremely dangerous proportions for the future safety of the democratic world.”
The Police Gazette has warned of this danger repeatedly. As far back as September, 1951, the Police Gazette was the first to force an admission from American and British intelligence officials that they had no proof Adolf Hitler had committed suicide.
Ferreting out facts and interviewing reliable and informed personalities such as Col. W. F. Heimlich, former Chief of US Intelligence in Berlin, who conducted the official investigation of the Hitler death reports; Major-General Richard C. Partridge, Chief of US Intelligence in the Pentagon, and Mr. Spruille Braden, US Ambassador to the Argentine at the end of the War, among others, the Police Gazette drew the inevitable conclusion:
Adolf Hitler was alive and had escaped from Germany; Martin Bormann, Hitler’s henchman and trusted confidant, had escaped also and was acting as liaison agent between the Fuehrer and the neo-Nazis in Germany, and—
Many of the leading Nazi industrialists, politicians and military brains were living openly in the Argentine, where they plotted Hitler’s return and the rebirth of a new and victorious Germany.
Now, from confidential sources in Western Germany and from refugees who have just escaped from behind the Iron Curtain, the Police Gazette has been able to piece together the horrifying details of a gigantic and calamitous Nazi-Soviet mutual assistance pact, which aims at the eventual conquest of the globe. This world-domination was to be achieved in four stages:
The Four Stages
1. The Nazi party would climb to power within the confines of Western Germany. They would be aided by Soviet financing in the final stages and, in view of universal German resentment at the continued presence of occupying forces, could expect the withdrawal of these Allied troops within “a reasonable length of time,” after the ratification of the Peace Treaties;
2. Hitler would return in person. With Soviet approval and support he would declare the whole of Germany united once again into a single and powerful Reich under his authority. Poland would probably be sacrificed as a separate entity and be absorbed within Russia proper;
3. The buildup period. Once again butter would be discarded for guns; German heavy industry would work night and day pr
oducing arms and machines of war; huge training programs would be launched and Germany would become an armed camp. In 1933 it took Hitler less than six years to transform an unarmed Germany into the most powerful single nation in the world. This time it would not take him so long.
4. Acting in concert with Russia, the Nazis and the Communists would launch a war of aggression upon their two major enemies, the United States and England. As in all wars precipitated by soulless dictators, the democracies would be at a disadvantage; the enemy could choose his day and hope to offset America’s superior power of the atom and hydrogen bombs by the impact of the initial onslaught.
Despite apparent astonishment in Washington and London at this disclosure of Communist support for the neo-Nazi party in Western Germany, the Police Gazette warned several months ago that Hitler was rebuilding his political machine from the sanctuary of his Shangri-La hideout and would without doubt use Stalin’s obvious might and powerful political situation as a stepping-stone. With the British arrest of these seven Nazis, Hitler’s plan becomes clear.
Acting under Hitler’s guidance, Martin Bormann held the reins of what remained of the Nazi party, whose leading members had been hanged, imprisoned, dispersed or had fled. His task was to form once again a band of determined, ruthless fanatics who would serve as the nucleus of an eventual return to power.
Until the time of the Berlin blockade by the Russians, when the Western powers showed the Soviets they would not surrender to threats, the Nazis in West Germany remained dormant. They held aloof from contact with fellow Nazis in East Germany, who were very much underground at this stage; from the German military staffs in captivity in Russia and from the Communists themselves.
With the lifting of the Berlin blockade when it was broken by the air lift, the Soviets virtually admitted they had been stalemated by the Allies. When the Western powers then announced their intention of rearming Western Germany and making her an integral part of the anti-Communist defense front, Hitler saw his chance.
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