Hitler aide Bormann 'escaped to Latin America'

[Judi Lynn]

Hitler aide Bormann 'escaped to Latin America'
AFP
February 6, 2011, 2:13 am

BRUSSELS (AFP) - Top Nazi Martin Bormann, who German authorities say died in 1945, escaped Berlin and lived in Latin America disguised as a priest, a former Belgian collaborator said in an interview published Saturday.

Paul van Aerschodt, 88, who was sentenced to death in Belgium in 1946 but broke out of prison before his execution and now lives in Spain, told the Derniere Heure newspaper he had met Bormann four times in La Paz, Bolivia, around 1960.

"Bormann had come from Paraguay and was plotting with some 20 officers a coup to overthrow (dictator Juan) Peron in Argentina," van Aerschodt said.

He claimed Bormann, who called himself Augustin von Lembach, passed himself off as a priest and celebrated masses, weddings and funerals and administered the last rites to the dying.

More:
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/8783051/hitler-aide-bormann-escaped-to-latin-america/

[Judi Lynn]

1. Three photos of Martin Bormann:

I saw an article a moment ago which said his oldest son was Hitler's godson...

http://naziwarcrimes.files.wordpress.com.nyud.net:8090/2008/01/martin-bormann.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk.nyud.net:8090/i/pix/2009/09/01/article-0-063D0D53000005DC-128_468x489.jpg

http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org.nyud.net:8090/images/00007635%20copy.jpg

[Judi Lynn]

2. A Belgian claims to have met with Martin Bormann in Bolivia

AFP - Posted on 05/02/2011 at 12:51 - Edited on 05/02/2011 at 12:52
A Belgian claims to have met with Martin Bormann in Bolivia



Ensures that a Belgian Nazi war criminal Martin Bormann, officially declared
dead in 1945, lived in Paraguay and Bolivia after the war where he met living
under a religious identity, in an interview published Saturday by daily last hour.

Ensures that a Belgian Nazi war criminal Martin Bormann, officially declared dead in 1945, lived in Paraguay and Bolivia after the war where he met living under a religious identity, in an interview published Saturday by daily last hour.

Employee sentenced to death in Belgium in 1946, Paul van Aerschodt, 88, lives in the name of Pablo Simons in San Sebastian, Spain, where she met a reporter from the newspaper, Gilbert Dupont.

Paul Van Aerschot claims to have met with Martin Bormann "four times to 1960" at La Paz, Bolivia, where he fled in 1947 "with a visa obtained in a few days in the intervention of a Claretian father, Bishop Antezana.

His statements should revive the controversy over the death of Nazi official Adolf Hitler serétaire officially declared dead in 1945 and revived the controversy over the support of the Church in Nazi criminals at large.

"Bormann came from Paraguay. He prepared a dozen officers a coup to overthrow Peron in Argentina," he said. "Bormann had remained a fanatical (...) Under the name of Augustin von Lembach, he passed himself off as a Redemptorist father and wore a black cassock, which did well laugh," he added.

More:
http://www.lepoint.fr/monde/un-belge-assure-avoir-rencontre-martin-bormann-en-bolivie-05-02-2011-135997_24.php

[struggle4progress]

4. How would a low-life Belgian collaborator get to know Hitler's personal secretary?

How would he track Bormann to Bolivia? And why would Bormann even agree meet with him in 1960?

The story doesn't make sense. Then again, it comes from a scumbag who lived a double life during WWII and who lived under a false name and history for decades afterwards

[struggle4progress]

3. Van Aerschodt was convicted in absentia of collaborating with the Nazis to deport

Belgians for forced labor. He was arrested in Belgium in October 2008, while traveling under the pseudonym Juan Pablo Simons

Le grand blond au revolver ou la double vie d'un collaborateur
http://www.rtbf.be/info/societe/histoire/le-grand-blond-au-revolver-ou-la-double-vie-dun-collaborateur-166801

L'un des derniers collabos arrêté à Bruxelles (09/05/2009)
http://www.dhnet.be/infos/faits-divers/article/261954/l-un-des-derniers-collabos-arrete-a-bruxelles.html

[CJvR]

5. IIRC...

...they closed the book on Bormann with DNA testing a few years back, he never made it out of Berlin. It was just difficult to verify this with the means available at the time.