Koop, Volker Martin Bormann. Hitler's Executioner

Martin Bormann (1900-1945) was one of the most hated Nazi officials. As head of the NSDAP party chancellery with the rank of Reich minister and Hitler's private secretary, he was feared by ministers, Gauleiters, civil servants, judges and generals. Bormann identified with Hitler's ideas on racial policy, the extermination of the Jews and forced labour and made himself indispensable as his executor for the detailed and dirty work. He coldly decided the fate of millions of people. After Hitler's suicide, Bormann's trail was initially lost. In October 1946, he was found guilty in absentia by the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg and sentenced to death. His skeleton was found in Berlin in 1972. He was officially declared dead. It has since been proven that Bormann took the poison capsule on 2 May 1945. Numerous documents that have only recently become accessible now make it possible to rewrite the biography of Hitler's most loyal vassal. Volker Koop shows the reader the power and unscrupulousness of the second most powerful man in the Third Reich, who operated in the shadow of the "Führer"