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How Hitler's deputy was tipped to ride on the Loch Ness Monster
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Hitler's deputy led government officials and journalists on a wild goose chase for years after his reported death, MI5 files released today showed. Martin Bormann was spotted everywhere from Switzerland to Bolivia, to the exasperation of the British security services. The search inspired a series of increasingly wild headlines, including the claim that he and Hitler were alive and Bormann was plotting a Nazi revival. One official drily speculated it was only a matter of time before he was reported to have been seen riding the Loch Ness monster.
Bormann was private secretary to Hitler and head of the Nazi party chancellery. The International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg tried him in absentia in October 1946 and sentenced him to death. Although he was reported to have been killed trying to escape from the Reich chancellery in May 1945, his body was not found until 1972 and it was not until the remains were DNA tested in 1998 that rumours he had survived were put to rest. British security bosses were sufficiently convinced of his death by the late 1940s to take reported sightings with a pinch of salt. The MI5 files released at the National Archive in Kew show Bormann was variously described as living in Bolivia, Italy, Norway, Switzerland and the Middle East and in prison or having defected to the Russians. An official description of him stated that he was assuming various disguises including a thick beard, facial scars and – when in Gottingen, in Lower Saxony, Germany – wore traditional Bavarian clothing, including halter braces and a Tyrolean hat. The constant stream of news reports and sightings from agents out in the field left some in MI5 rather frustrated.
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