Martin Bormann
Martin Bormann, Chief of Staff to the Deputy Führer, born June 17, 1900 in Halberstadt, Reich Leader of the Nazi Party, Hitler’s private secretary and close associate, member of the post-World War I “Rossbach Freikorps,” honorary SS-Obergruppenführer, winner of the Nazi Blood Order and Nazi Golden Party Badge, reportedly killed in action/committed suicide on May 1, 1945 in Berlin, said of himself: “[I work] like a horse. Indeed, more than a horse, since a horse has its Sunday off and its night sleep.” (2000 Quotations from Hitler’s Thousand Year Reich)
Note: within the last few years, several historians have postulated that Bormann did not die in Berlin, but, in fact, did escape to South America where he died about 1960 from stomach cancer. In this theory, West German Intelligence exhumed the body in South American in 1972 and place the remains in Berlin where Bormann was said to have fallen, so as to take the heat off the German government to continue to hunt for old Nazis. The remains were found in Berlin the same year and in 1998 a DNA test confirmed it was the former Deputy Führer. But the original Bormann medical reports in 1972 released only some and not all the information found under the microscope. While it is true the dentistry of the skull found was identified as Bormann, the official report failed to reveal to the public that there was dentistry performed in the skull, which could only have been done in the 1950’s due to the technology used. Also, the skull ”found” in Berlin was encased in a ‘red clay’ type earth, atypical to Germany but local to a place in Paraguay, the very place that many investigators have traced Bormann to in his last years.
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Josef Goebbels
Josef Goebbels, Gauleiter of Berlin, Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, born October 29, 1897 in Rheydt, afflicted with a club-foot, winner of the Nazi Golden Party Badge, committed suicide by gunshot and poison May 1, 1945 in Berlin, along with his wife Magda, after supervising the poisoning of his six children. His last words were: “[SS-Hauptsturmführer] Schwägermann, this is the worst treachery of all. The generals have betrayed the Führer. Everything is lost. I shall die together with my wife and family. You will burn my body. Can you do that?” (2000 Quotations from Hitler’s Thousand Year Reich)