DNA Tests Show Body Is Bormann’s
A body unearthed on a Berlin building site more than 25 years ago has been identified by DNA tests as that of Adolf Hitler’s infamous right-hand man, Martin Bormann, German media reported. Bormann’s family now intends to cremate his body, the Welt am Sonntag newspaper reported. Dental inspections of human remains unearthed in Berlin in 1972 matched records held on Bormann, but German authorities ordered the more accurate genetic tests after a British book asserted that Bormann had been spirited away by British commandos after the war to help them track down looted Nazi gold.
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