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Aftermath: Martin Bormann and the Fourth Reich Hardcover – January 1, 1975

by Ladislas Farago (Author)

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January 1, 1975
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hodder and Stoughton; 0 edition (January 1, 1975)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 479 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0340162414
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0340162415
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.34 pounds

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Martin N. Kroll

GENUINE RESEARCH vs. O'REILLY KILLING THE SS

Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2018

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Author Ladislas Farago, a man with excellent credentials undertook to find infamous Nazi Martin Bormann in the mid 1970s. After super efforts, he found him in Latin America and they met face to face. Prior to the meeting Farago employed the services of recognized experts who debunked the cover up tale that Bormann died in 1945 trying to escape Berlin.
in the course of Farago's search he came across several other Nazis including Joseph Mengele. Their goal was to establish a Fourth Reich. Thankfully, they failed.

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Dave Davidson

An excellent scholarly written book. Excellent index and bibliography...

Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2017

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An excellent scholarly written book. Excellent index and bibliography. A little dated, but well worth the money, a lot better than some of the current Bormann/Hitler books. Only improvements I would make would be good footnotes and an expanded index at the end. As an example Mexico figures large in anti-American Axis war effort, but no index references at all.
Highly recommended, even with the index issues.

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Nathan Griffiths

Excellent shape, great price

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The book was in excellent shape for being used. Delivered faster than expected, and purchased for a great price. Very happy with this seller. I have yet to read the book but i look forward to it; i think its a piece of history.

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Keith J. Williams

He was the master of biographies.

Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2019

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Farage is the master of biographies. This one you don't know if he'll get to meet Martin Boorman, Hitler's right hand man.

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Possible ? Probable

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Farago writes well,and backs up his writing with factual information and documentation. It seems to me that a political ideology such as Nazism just wouldnt dissappear overnight. The fact that Neo Nazism is alive and flourishing supports this hypothesis. I believe Bormann did survive. And why not? didnt Eichmann and Mengele, and Barbie. What his intentions where really ?.. We will never know if they had a Fourth Reich on their minds. But one thing is for certain. Many people forsaw the coming NEW WAR with Russia ( like Gen G.S.Patton) we would be ignorant to think that these individuals didnt forsee the coming storm.Did they set a timeline for there re-introduction of there ideological beliefs ?. Farago writes in a style that has a the odor of an intelligence officer,or a criminal investigator. Part Conspiracy, Part Investigation,part history lesson, If you you read this book with open mind you should enjoy it.

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k. n. kane

Masters of Deception

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This book is dated but still holds some relevance. The author, Ladislas Farago had little appreciation for the emerging science of facial reconstruction and he also followed several false leads that were intended to undermine his research. Consequently, aspects of this book are significantly flawed but one should bear in mind that the case of Martin Bormann was/is protected by great masters of deception whereas Farago acted in good faith. .

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Only the beginning of the story...

Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2005

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This book reads like a mystery thriller as Farago travels hither and yon uncovering documentation and witnesses to corroborate his theory that Martin Bormann is alive and well and living on planet Earth.

Page after page unravels the mystery while painting the disturbing picture of the ongoing work of the Nazi network after WWII supported by one cabal after another.

How can we allow ourselves to believe that the Nazis "disappeared" when the Allies "won" the war? People don't just disappear, especially when they are the bitter, brilliant ideologues that the Nazis are. This book is only the beginning of the story. The fact that it isn't taken more seriously is a pathetic shame.

An ongoing Nazi presence would explain a lot about many of the painful mysteries in American history.

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Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2012

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The book is hindered by the fact that Bormann is dead by now and that many Nazis came here during operation paperclip to take up the cold war. He was too high up and evil to be sanitized and used here. Fairly interesting reading but very specialized. Book recounts various Bormann sightings here and there thus Bormann takes on the persona of a Nazi Sasquatch.

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100% efficient great offers - Arrived as stated and on time!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 20, 2017

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Good read arrived as stated and on time!

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読み応え

Reviewed in Japan on February 18, 2016

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日本語で以前持っていた。内容は　追求心を　失望させないものだ。よく　ここまで、追及した、と思う

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Roger Clark

Absolute drivel - Avoid!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 31, 2014

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This book is junk. First published in 1974 it excited international ridicule. Gales of helpless laughter swept around the world. Serious historians have laughed ever since. But the ignorant and conspiracy theorists lapped up every word. They believe this book is true despite mountains of evidence that proves it's fraudulent.

The British historian Stephen Dorril claimed its author, the journalist Ladislas Farago, was the 'most successful disinformer or dupe' regarding the presence of Nazis in South America.

And in his book "The Nazi Menace in Argentina" Ronald Newton told readers the historic record had been left 'booby-trapped with an extraordinary number of hoaxes, forgeries, unanswered propaganda ploys and assorted dirty tricks'.

Ladislas Farago fell for them hook, line and sinker. In fact his book "AFTERMATH" was sunk in 1972 - two years before it was published. In that year he published a series of articles in two newspapers - the London Daily Express and the New York Daily News. Farago claimed one the world's most wanted Nazis, Martin Bormann, had survived the war and was now leading the life of a prosperous businessman in Argentina. And the papers published a photo to prove it.

Unfortunately, the photo turned out to be a picture of an innocent man - a respected schoolteacher. And the man Farago claimed was his star informant denounced the articles.

"The Ottawa Journal" summarised the story that went round the world under the headline - `Never saw Bormann or looked for him Bormann ... Stories are phonies, Argentinean says.' The paper reported:- `The New York Times says in a report from Buenos Aires that an Argentine intelligence officer credited in news stories with tracking down top Nazi Martin Bormann has said he never saw Bormann, or even looked for him. The Times quotes Juan Jose Velasco identified as the main informant in a series of articles researched by Ladislas Farago and carried recently by the Daily News here and the London Daily Express as saying the documents used by Farago were forgeries. "I think he's dead," The Times quotes Velasco as saying.'

The Jewish Chronicle of Pittsburgh rubbed salt in the wounds - `Bormann Documents "Hoax," Israeli Expert Charges' ... `An Israeli expert said today that the recent "revelations" that Hitler's deputy Martin Bormann was alive in Argentina were untrue and based on documents that "are a hoax." Vaacov Caroz, an Israeli writer and acknowledged expert on Intelligence matters, said the documents cited by author Ladislas Farago as proof that Bormann fled to Argentina in 1948 and still lives there contain no information that has not been available to the public from other sources for years.'

According to the Independent Press - Telegram (10 December 1972 - Page 35):- `The Argentine Federal Police, from whose files Farago said the documents printed with his articles had come, stated categorically last Wednesday that none of the published documents had come from their files. Commissisioner Osvaldo A. Messore, chief spokesman for the federal police, was supplied last Monday with a written list of the documents cited by number in Farago's article and with copies of the Daily Express in which the facsimiles of some documents were reproduced. As Farago's series unfolded, much of its content seemed familiar to those who have kept up with newspaper and magazine publications on the flight of Nazis to South America since the war. There also were gross errors in key details, such as the name and description of the Argentine ranch where Bormann allegedly had been traced by Argentine intelligence officials.'

So collapse of Farago's newspaper articles. Worse was the come.

A few days later, the West German authorities dug up Bormann's remains in Berlin. His corpse was last seen 27 years before in 1945 by the Hitler Youth Leader Artur Axmann near the Lehrter station. This was shortly after Bormann fled from the bunker following Hitler's suicide. In 1972 workmen discovered human remains near the site. The skull was examined and Bormann identified by the teeth. Also the bones. Bormann had damaged his shoulder during a riding accident and the bones showed evidence of this.

The London Times newspaper carried this report dated 28 Feb 1973:- `The West German authorities ended their search for Martin Bormann today with a ruling that a skeleton found here late last year belonged to Hitler's deputy.

`"The hunt for Bormann is over", Herr Wilhelm Metzner, the Frankfurt prosecutor who has been in charge of the Bormann investigation, said."

The report forwarded to Herr Metzner from West Berlin Institute for Forensic Medicine `said Bormann had been identified through the skeleton's teeth, measurements, skull shape and mended collar bone.'

The Times carried a further report dated 11 April 1973:- `Martin Bormann is officially dead ... "The investigation into what happened to Hitler's deputy is now officially closed. There is no doubt whatever that Bormann committed suicide in Berlin in 1945."

`Thus Herr Joachim Richter. A Hesse Land prosecutor, announced in Frankfurt today that one of the longest criminal investigations ever undertaken has come to an end. Herr Richter's conclusion is based on a combination of personal accounts by a number of people who saw Bormann's body in 1945 and on a vast amount of scientific documentation.'

Bormann's body was found next to a much taller man, Hitler's personal surgeon Dr Ludwig Stumpfegger, who's corpse was also spotted in 1945. He, too, was successfully identified.

A wise man would have abandoned his book. But no! Farago had received advance payment of $100,000 for his book and published "AFTERMATH - Martin Bormann and the Fourth Reich" in 1974. The result was catastrophic. Abuse and scorn rained down upon him.

Farago died in 1980 and escaped the final humiliation - the proof beyond all doubt that Bormann died in 1945. This evidence confirmed that the stories Farago told about the Nazi leader living in South America were false.

In 1998 Bormann's remains were DNA tested. An article in The Los Angeles Times sums up what happened:-

`NAZI'S FAMILY SAYS CASE CLOSED - May 06, 1998 Reuters

BONN -- Martin Bormann's family welcomed news that DNA tests had shown remains found more than 20 years ago were those of the Nazi, saying they hoped the findings would lay to rest speculation over his whereabouts.

Scientists confirmed Monday that DNA testing showed a skull and other remains found at a Berlin building site in 1972 were those of Bormann, Adolf Hitler's right-hand man.

The bones discovered in Berlin were widely thought to be those of Bormann after dental records and injuries found on the remains matched those of Hitler's henchman, but rumours of his escape and survival continued.

The DNA test "rules out any further speculation over the death or survival of Martin Bormann after 1945 for any serious reporter," the family said in a statement.

The family has consistently maintained that Bormann died in May 1945.'

Yes, even the family were convinced Martin Bormann died at the end of the war. Two years later Bormann's remains underwent further tests - a mitochondrial DNA comparison. The results were published in the February 14, 2001 issue of International Journal of Legal Medicine. They supported overwhelmingly the hypothesis that the remains were those of Martin Bormann. Here is a summary of the report in US National Library of Medicine - National Institute of Health:-

`Identification of the skeletal remains of Martin Bormann by mtDNA analysis.

Anslinger K1, Weichhold G, Keil W, Bayer B, Eisenmenger W.

Author information: (1) Institute of Legal Medicine, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany.

Contrary to statements of an eye-witness who reported that Martin Bormann,
the second most powerful man in the Third Reich, died on 2 May 1945 in Berlin,
rumours persisted over the years that he had escaped from Germany after World War
II. In 1972, skeletal remains were found during construction work, and by
investigating the teeth and the bones experts concluded that they were from
Bormann. Nevertheless, new rumours arose and in order to end this speculation we
were commissioned to identify the skeletal remains by mitochondrial DNA analysis.
The comparison of the sequence of HV1 and HV2 from the skeletal remains and a
living maternal relative of Martin Bormann revealed no differences and this
sequence was not found in 1,500 Caucasoid reference sequences. Based on this
investigation, we support the hypothesis that the skeletal remains are those of
Martin Bormann.

PMID: 11296895 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]'

Still unconvinced? Then visit the website of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. You will see it gives Martin Bormann's dates as 1900-1945. In other words Bormann died at the end of the war and never escaped. The museum adds this about Bormann:- `West German authorities officially declared him dead in 1973 after his remains were discovered and positively identified.'

So why bother to review this discredited book that has been out of print for decades and excites so much derision from informed and authoritative sources? Because there are still people who believe it's true, quote it in their books and praise it in reviews here on Amazon. Some believe Hitler and Eva Braun escaped, too, and fled to South America.

I would draw their attention to pages 125-127 in Farago's book where he does get something right. There he describes the suicides of Hitler and Eva in the Berlin bunker on 30 April 1945. `Martin Bormann,' he tells us, 'watched as the gasoline-soaked bodies of Adolf Hitler and his wife, Eva Braun, were slowly consumed by the flames of the improvised pyre.'

So no trip to South America, or anywhere else. And if Bormann was dead shortly afterwards all the stories Farago recounts about him in South America are fantasies. South Americans saw this rich foreigner flashing his money around, fed him tales and took his cash. He was even aware this was happening.

`I was consistently warned,' he tells us on page 97, `that these Latins were past masters in producing documents on any matter, even of the greatest sensitivity, by the relative simple method of forging them.'

And they did! Farago was conned time after time. His informers led him a merry dance.

One reader assured me at the climax to his 550-page book Farago `wrote that he personally met Martin Bormann in South America.' Some meeting! Even Farago derides it. On page 491 he wrote:- `It was at this stage (1973) that I saw Martin Bormann - saw him is the right word, because it would be too much to say that we met.'

You're telling me! After being given the run-around by various con-men who were trying to get him to pay $500,000 for Bormann's bogus memoirs (which contained nothing of interest about Hitler) Farago was taken to a remote convent hospital `somewhere in southern Bolivia'. There, he tells us, he was granted `a five-minute visit (with no questions asked and, certainly, no answers given.)' On entering the room he found a senile, old man propped up in bed who uttered two sentences:- `Dammit, don't you see I'm an old man? So why don't you let me die in peace?'

Farago left. And that's it! No interview, no photographs, no finger-prints. Hardly conclusive proof that Bormann survived the war.

We can ignore everything else - the dodgy photos that Farago assures us are Bormann in South America, but look nothing like him. We can chuckle about the `beauty queen called Miss Nazi World' and attempts to seduce Bormann's mistress at the Bim Bam Bum nightclub. We may wonder as we're told Bormann `commuted constantly' to a 'heavily fortified German camp ... It's owner Fritz Schneider, an ex-Nazi who became a fanatical leader of a mystic sect in his exile, had thoughtfully installed an antiaircraft gun on the estancia to assure Bormann's safety from Jewish raiders who, Schneider feared, might come by helicopter for the snatch.'

Bormann is even supposed to have fathered four more children. Where are they, by the way? Anyone seen them? Any photos, information, or DNA proof? Of course not!

Since this wretched book was published there's been no outpouring of information confirming Bormann ever set foot in South America. Conspiracy theorists can't even agree on what year Bormann arrived. Farago claims he arrived by ship in 1948 disguised as a Jesuit priest.

Meanwhile in his book "MARTIN BORMANN - Nazi in exile" Paul Manning claims Bormann boarded a ship the previous year - that's 1947 - `a rather sizeable freighter' - sailed to South America and `steamed into the harbor of Buenos Aires in the winter of 1947'.

And in Harry Cooper's book "HITLER IN ARGENTINA" a Nazi spy called Velasco claims he and Bormann together escaped to Argentina onboard a submarine in the summer of 1946.

So which year did Bormann arrive in South America - 1946, 1947, or 1948? The answer? ... None of them as Bormann died in Berlin in 1945. These conspiracy theorist constantly disagree with each other, let alone reputable historians. Yet they expect readers to believe their fantasies. Well, it's time for the nonsense to stop. It's time readers adopted a more critical attitude and got wise to what's going on.

Even that maverick David Irving says Bormann, as well as Hitler and Eva died in Berlin in 1945.

In September 2009 the Daily Mail newspaper published an article by Beth Hale entitled:- `MI5 obsession with Hitler's deputy Martin Bormann led Britain on Nazi goose chase.'

By the late 1940s Britain Secret Intelligence Service was fed up with constant sightings of Martin Bormann that came from all over the world. They were convinced he was dead. Beth Hale uncovered a typical incident:- The `files reveal an entertaining account from November 1951 when Special Branch officers are called to a report that Bormann has walked into the offices of the Chicago Tribune, in London.

`The journalist - Arthur Veysey - was convinced but the policeman was not.

"At a glance it was obvious he was not (Bormann)," he wrote in a memo.

`The man was in fact Harry Adcock, alias Harry Beaumont, the officer notes, adding that the fake Bormann lived in 'cheap lodging house' in N7 and was in fact a 'casually employed waiter' who was 'slightly unbalanced' and whose 'imagination runs riot when he has had a few drinks.

`The officer adds: "I have emphasised to Veysey that he was hoaxed - and easily at that".'

And those words - `he was hoaxed - and easily at that.' - apply to Farago and a host of gullible conspiracy theorists who think Martin Bormann survived the war. They're still writing their fantasy books - I've reviewed some of them here on Amazon - and they're still fooling the gullible. Get wise. Read some proper history and study the evidence and you'll avoid being duped. Farago was a buffoon. Why emulate him?

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