ORIGINAL: EricGuitarJames
Bormann alive! They found his body in 1972 exactly where Artur Axmann said he'd seen it together with the body of Dr. Ludwig Stumpfegger following the 'breakout' from the Berlin bunker. Just because he was supposedly spotted in various locations around the World doesn't mean he escaped. 'Elvis Presley' has been seen repeatedly since his death in 1977, it doesn't mean he's alive. Farago (or should that be 'Farrago'[:D]) is a journalist who likes conspiracy theories, he has little credibility as a historian no matter how readable his books are!
Calm down. . .
In 1972 a doctor tried to identify two bodies that were found by using dental records he had seen 30 years previous to this examination. In other words, he allegedly identified Bormann's teeth FROM MEMORY. From this, he allegedly stated one of the bodies was Bormann [8|]
The West German Gov't, hoping to close the issue and sweep it under the carpet, declared Bormann dead.
However, MANY serious and credible sources refused to believe it including the Israeli Mossad, which continued to hunt for Bormann.
There are hundreds of creditable reports since the end of the war until the 1960s of sightings of Bormann at various locations in Europe and later in South America, when his presence in a North Italian monastery was first announced. In the same year, his wife Gerda (a rabid Nazi and daughter of Supreme Party Judge, Walter Buch) died of cancer in South Tyrol, though his ten children survived the war. It was then alleged that Bormann had escaped (like other loyal Nazis) via Rome to South America. Rumoured to have settled in Argentina where he was living secretly as a millionaire, allegedly spotted in Brazil and also in Chile, Bormann's traces proved as elusive as the anonymity in which he first rose to power.
However, the ultimate fate of Bormann is of only secondary importance.
In his research, Farago and several other investigators, also uncovered a scheme orchestrated by Bormann, and arranged with important Nazis and German corporations, to ship out of Germany during the war, billions of dollars in assets to Argentina and to many other countries.
Considering South America was a prime refuge for the Nazis after the war it is instructive to look at changes of the gold reserves of South American countries, particularly Argentina. Argentina’s gold reserves increased from 313.83 metric tons in 1940 to 1064 tons in 1945. The increase in the gold reserves of Argentina in terms of dollars, was a whooping $635,000,000 dollars. To put that figure in perspective the U.S. budget for 1940 was approximately $9.4 billion dollars. Brazil also saw an increase in gold reserves from 45 metric tons in 1940 to 314 tons in 1945, or an increase of about $228,000,000 dollars.
The above reserve figures shed some light on the destination of some of the Nazis’ loot. How much of the increase in South American gold reserves came from Germany near the end of the war to finance the Nazis’ planned comeback is still unknown. However, gold was only one small part of the Nazis’ comeback plan. Even more valuable to the Nazis’ plan were the amounts of bearer stocks, bonds and the number of Nazi front corporations established worldwide by Bormann. These corporations held valuable patents and would produce a steady income stream to finance the Nazi underground.
Many important Nazis were ferreted out of the Third Reich via ODESSA and the Vatican's Ratlines.
This is all historical fact.
It is a very interesting area of research and the interested reader might find the following of some interest:
* "Unholy Trinity" by Mark Aarons and John Loftus
* "Blowback: America's recruitment of Nazis, and its disastrous effect on our domestic and foreign policy" by Christopher Simpson
* "Nazi in Exile" by Paul Manning
Current Vatican lawsuits:
http://www.remnantofgod.org/ustashe.htm