Hitler aide Bormann ‘escaped to Latin America’

By Agence France-Presse
Sunday, February 6, 2011 11:08 EDT
 
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BRUSSELS — 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.

“But he remained a fanatic,” van Aerschodt said, adding that he had made the choice not to give Bormann away but did not know what became of him.

He said Bormann had found refuge in Bolivia in 1947 after another priest helped him to obtain a visa.

Van Aerschodt said Bormann had visited a restaurant the Belgian ran in La Paz, as had former Lyon Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie, who was extradited to France in 1983 for trial and jailed.

Bormann, who was Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s private secretary and one of the most powerful figures in the Third Reich, left Hitler’s bunker as Russian forces approached.

He reportedly died not far away, but was tried at Nuremberg in his absence and sentenced to death, while Nazi-hunters continued to look for him, particularly in Latin America.

However remains found in Berlin in 1972 were identified as Bormann’s and he was officially declared dead by German authorities.

The identification was confirmed by DNA in 1998 but some skeptics believe the remains had been brought from elsewhere to be reburied in Berlin.

Van Aerschodt escaped from a Belgian prison in 1945 and fled to Spain where he was detained for a while but was helped by a priest to reach Bolivia and lived there till 1964.

He returned to Spain and worked for the United Nations for several years. He now lives in San Sebastian under the name of Pablo Simons and frequently visits Belgium, where his death sentence was invalidated in 1976 when Brussels abandoned the penalty.

 
 
 
 
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  • Guest

    What was the Catholic church’s role in this? If he was passing himself off as a priest, wouldn’t the Catholic church have known about this? (I’m not saying they were complicit, but I think the question should be asked and answered.)

  • Anonymous

    They say the path of Odessa led through the Vatican then Naples to Argentina where the Perons were Nazi friendly. This was their own operation Paperclip. I wonder what the Wiesenthal Center has to say about this?

  • http://twitter.com/Covert4Liberty Brimstone Hill

    Wow……..I thought they were referring to Bush moving to Paraguay.

  • Anonymous

    Well, the Belgian anti-Semitic “Deconstructionist”, Paul deMan had a grand old time hiding in American Academia. A rabid follower of the Belgian Nazi, Leon Degrelle, deMan received the total “Absolution” of our litterati. Even in later academic life at the Johns Hopkins University he plied his Critical Trade while leaving a trail of panties behind. He even received a “benediction” from, jewish to the core Sephardic Survivor, Jacques Derrida.

    Graduate Student, Department of Romance Languages, The Johns Hopkins University, 1969 70

  • Anonymous

    Nazi’s in Paraguay? In addition to the Bushes?

  • Ratm435

    What always intrigued me is how the Nazis view themselves as a superior Aryan race but yet
    fled to south america did they not have contempt living amongst south Americans.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/RepublicConstitution?feature=mhum TruthRegimes

    Perhaps Darth Cheney will soon offer a commentary on Bormann’s character as he has for dictator Mubarak.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/RepublicConstitution?feature=mhum TruthRegimes

    Actually, much of South American history has been a picture of similar racism with the light-skinned upper crust elitists always being those in power, some of whom openly supported the Nazis, and dominating the darker-skinned population. Look it up there are several books detailing such problems.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/RepublicConstitution?feature=mhum TruthRegimes

    Yes, read:

    “Unholy Trinity: The Vatican, The Nazis, and The Swiss Banks” Mark Aarons, John Loftus

  • Anonymous

    Must have been easy to become a priest, the Nazi’s and Catholic Church are so similar in their history of abuse.

  • Anonymous

    It’s sad and frightful that the Catholic church, in ways small and sometimes not so small, abetted these beasts. But, hey, they’ve abetted pederasts for so many years. What’s next from them? (I ask this as a thoroughly apostate Catholic taught by nuns, Benedictine monks, and Jesuit priests.) The pederasty is horrific, but I could argue that any attempt to aid these vile war criminals is worse…

    Read “The Statement,” the Irish (and Catholic) writer, Brian Moore’s, novelization of this subject. (It’s a cracking good book.) Oh, and while I’m here, let’s prosecute GW Bush, and Cheney, and all of the thugs who enabled the war crimes of the more recent past.

  • Anonymous

    Along with those who stood aside or helped as the Nazi’s rose to power, then later aided their escape (or directly employed “former” Nazis).

    Of course that would include the United States government and most large corporations.

  • Anonymous

    Thanks

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KFOFZHLUNJCQATOHPSVHSFKP3I pw

    Once you look into just how connected America and Nazi Germany is, this seems insignificant…

  • Anonymous

    It’s really no surprise he Vatican was in on this. Antisemitism is the Catholic Church’s own little baby who would be about 1500 years old by now. Used to be that there was no special hatred for Jews as a group, they were just hated and looked down upon like everyone else in Rome who wasn’t a Roman. When the church began to conquer (convert) Europe they ran into problems with some peasants who liked to hang out at the Jewish festivals rather than the restrictive catholic ones and, Bingo, the Jews killed Christ – stay away from them. Also, the Jews themselves were not a good target market for conversion and not falling in line behind the Vatican doomed them as well. This is acknowledged as the root of “antisemitism” and has festered in the minds of Catholics and Europeans ever since.

  • http://twitter.com/btmfdrsheaven rebecca meritt

    I want to know if the weddings are church legal and the children born to these marriages legitimate ,if the last rights and funerals he officiated over saved anyone from purgatory and if he received priest’s pay or merely stole the tithe to live on and finance his fanatic HABIT.

  • http://illuminatimatrix.wordpress.com/ hobocopagitprop

    There was prewar corporate partnerships between the Nazis and enterprises in the the USA, including some controlled by the Bush family (dull). Association. I.G. Farben – just how long did it take to dissolve those assets?

    The German military surrendered, not the Reich Government (read instrument of surrender), then headed under Grand Admiral Karl Donitz who succeeded Hitler. Evacuation plans were long made before the fall of Nazi Germany, which included a vast recreation of Nazi Germany in South America. These plans were designed by Bormann – by association.

    There is currently Nazi penetration into the Muslim world, and there was involvement in Gamel Abdul Nasser’s Egypt if you do a little investigating. Nazis had and have development and control of new energy technologies. Who were the first NASA scientists? How about all the former Nazi geneticists that went to the then USSR? There are “mainstream” stories now surfacing that former Nazis were involved with the formation of the CIA. Nazis innovated the modern corporate philosophy. When these preist/philospher/warriors said 1000 year Reich, they weren’t thinking about happy blond German people making beer and erecting poles for festivals in the Fatherland. They were thinking total corporate enslavement through an esoteric occult philosophy that the majority of people are far to indoctrinated into the systems of logic to be aware of what they are actually seeing and experiencing. Humanity lives in the literal interpretation of the word – that is its power son.

    Freud (Austrian), Einstein (German-”born”), Tesla (Serbian), all sponsored either directly or indirectly by US corporate/military interests, inadvertently unlocked the conditioned secrets of the universe and the human mind at the turn of the century that unleashed an evolving maelstrom of manipulation on humanity through corporate governance and tyranny – without regard to what socialist experiment took (“New Deal” Socialism, National Socialism, or Communist Socialism).

    It’s the Nazi International, a Postwar Plan to Control Finance, Conflict, Physics and Space

    The landscape is unrecognizable because the costumes are different and the slogans have changed. It’s all just the same Egypto-Babybalony bullshit thats been shoveled down the throat of humanity since time immemorial. trout.

  • Dravazed

    I’m still thinking about the poster below who complains about our being “…infested with Jews…”

    It seems Bormann isn’t the only one who escaped.

  • Anonymous

    It seems preists and the catholic church were helping lots of Nazis. Why? havent a clue unless some of that plunder the germans had traded hands.

  • http://illuminatimatrix.wordpress.com/ hobocopagitprop

    …and I guess that would be the both of you too since corporate governance, which is international and the same whether you know it or not, runs and rules every aspect of your life thereby you are in contract with it. This is unless you live in a cave and kill your own food. You are using a machine that at the same time supports the whole system of tyranny and oppression exposes those injustices made by the systems of slavery. Catch 22, isn’t it? (:

  • Anonymous

    Pope Pius II helped more Jews escape the Nazi’s than any other individual during the war and the chief Rabbi of Rome later converted to Catholicism. The New York Times though, has refused to publish a documented defense of Pius. Another anomaly is that Catholic doctrine has never wavered from its Apostolic roots. Innumerable Papal teachings have clearly articulated the dichotomy between Christian and Syncretistic / Occult based teachings, the later of which underpin the New World Order religion being promoted to the dumbed down masses.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=530821179 Risa Bear

    Cheney for Pope? Might as well clear things up.

  • http://twitter.com/okojo okojo

    Bormann died in on the invalidstrasse rail tracks, either from the concussion of an explosion or from taking cyanide. His skeleton was found in 1972, and his jaw was confirm to match dental work on records. . All these sightings of Bormann in South America are just fantasies. Much like Heinrich Müller, died in the ruins of Berlin in 1945, they went underground.

  • Anonymous

    No.

  • http://SALON WHITE DRAGON

    Yeah…he and Elvis had a bar in La Paz……

  • Greg Eckhart

    You’re one of the creative nutbars!
    Ya…the Jews at the New York Times are suppressing the information that the Catholic church, although for centuries at the forefront of persecuting non-Christians LIKE the Jews and never wavering from their Apostolic roots of spewing incitement and condemnation against non-Catholics, really helped save a bunch of Jews!
    Feel free to write down your theory, mail it in a letter to the Jew York Times, sprinkle the inside with talc, use your real return address and then sit at home and wait for a reply.

  • Gnat K. Coal

    Because until NINETEEN SIXTY-SIX the official Catholic Catechism read, “Christ was killed by DIRTY JEWS” ??

  • Gnat K. Coal

    No, the women “married” are officially WHORES according to the Catholic Church. Those administered “last rites” are IN HELL and those “baptized” are all also in HELL.

  • Hassan i Sabbah

    Why would “the Jews,” whatever that means, not recognize someone who had helped them? “The Jews” have consistently given awards to people who helped them during the Shoah, including a Japanese diplomat. If “the Jews” didn’t recognize the pope, it was because he was in bed with the Nazis, or at least looked the other way. The fact is you just can’t face the fact that your “holy father” wasn’t all that holy when his own ass was on the line.

  • Hassan i Sabbah

    “Creative Nutbar.” I like that. Make a good name for a candy bar. We could have a picture of the current ex-Nazi on the label.

  • Anonymous

    ‘Yeah…he and Elvis had a bar in La Paz…… ” Where Jim Morrison performs nightly and the doorman is Howard Hughes.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TF72KWIG5DGSPE3ZXDK6FX4KTQ Robert Burned

    Imagine the shock of those innocent Catholics, awakening in Hell because of this man.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TF72KWIG5DGSPE3ZXDK6FX4KTQ Robert Burned

    It was difficult to check the dentition because Bormann’s jaw went on flapping for years after his death.

  • Anonymous

    That’s a first.

  • http://www.911Blogger.com/ Orangutan.

    Hitler probably did the same thing. Or at least tried to, if he didn’t succeed at it.

  • Anonymous

    Zolli was the name of the Jewish Rabbi who converted to Catholicism at the
    end of WWII and http://www.zenit.org/article-29521?l=english, is a link in
    reference to Pope Pius’ efforts on behalf of Jews. Anyone interested in
    objective reality must do due diligence if they want to end up on the right
    side of disputations. It is critical at this time that Americans,
    especially, rethink history (not just the kind that demonizes the Catholic
    Church). And yes, I am correct about the New York Times refusing to publish
    documented material in defense of Pope Pius XII. A Query at EWTN would
    uncover this fact. But the haters just want to run off at the mouth. That is
    why America is falling.

  • http://twitter.com/btmfdrsheaven rebecca meritt

    Catholic witness protection program?

  • jim

    hey, maybe cheney vouched for bormann too. just out of professional courtesy. one nazi war criminal to another.

  • Michael McTague

    Ken Lay after his escape and sex change (in New Orleans at a private clinic), played in a La Paz piano bar for two years, prior to moving to Acension Paraguay where he/she took over Bormann’s laundry and clientele of wealthy Nazis that settled there in the late 40′s. The laundry’s growing success is based on a special starch Ken perfected using 6 varieties of native Bolivian potatoes; he kept the von Lembach Laundry name and logo and there is talk he’d like to franchise.

  • Anonymous

    Boorman’s descendants now make up the GOP: Grosse Obergruppenfuerher Putzes, aka, Christian Patriot Nazi Party.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_MMSNII5PIZIVODYLJGKUT36J2I CHARLES

    The Vatican gave thousands of visas to the fleeing Nazis in payment for killing millions of communists.

  • http://mexfiles.net Richard Grabman

    I doubt Martin Bormann, or anyone else, was plotting to overthrow Juan Peron (who, for all his faults, was an ELECTED president) in 1960. Peron had been overthrown in a military coup in 1955… and in 1960 was living in Madrid.

  • http://proudprimate.com Proud Primate

    It’s true he was a very resourceful fellow, and had a long history with potatoes, sc. chips.

  • http://proudprimate.com Proud Primate

    you don’t think God will honor his office in spite of his past?

  • http://proudprimate.com Proud Primate

    You left the X off of XII. Pius II died 1464.

    Pacelli was Sec’y of the Vatican State under his predecessor, Pius XI, when he negotiated the Concordat with Hitler. After his accession, the “Red Pope” managed the “ratlines” that squirrelled the Nazi gold through Switzerland into South America, which accounts for the “German miracle” recovery and return to economic superpower status postwar.

  • Anonymous

    Don’t forget about Karl Rove, whose grandfather was a Gauleiter under Hitler. And of course Grandpa Prescott Bush we all know about was a Nazi.

  • http://SALON WHITE DRAGON

    You KNEW this?…

  • Anonymous

    Don’t forget Pope Paul VI who funded “ANTI-ABORTION”/PRIEST-RUN DEATH CAMPS in Croatia to punish Serb Christian Orthodox “baby-killing heretics” in WWII. Croatian Nazi priests ran the Vatican’s Nazi ratlines to North and South America. The Vatican should be bombed off the planet.

  • Anonymous

    Modeled after the holy mother-killing pedophile priest protection program.

  • Anonymous

    “Communist” NON-CATHOLICS — Cardinal Montini (Paul VI) funded priest-run death camps for 1 MILLION Serb Christian “heretics”.

  • Anonymous

    THANK YOU! — My favorite book! I keep getting banned for recommending this book at the fetal fascist InsideCatholic.com web site run by adulterous Deal Hudson. Those fetal idolators hate to be reminded that their favorite “pro-life” Humanae Vitae encyclical was written by a Nazi genocider.

  • Anonymous

    Not a lot — I already asked.

  • Anonymous

    Johns Hopkins was too busy nuking ethnic minorities, Down Syndrome patients, military brats and possibly myself in the Pentagon’s “war on Communists” to worry about the MANY Nazis in its departments.

  • http://www.balmorheaprogressive.blogspot.com/ BaileyWuXiang

    Tel Aviv is crawling with Nazis. Why don’t they investigate there?

  • http://www.balmorheaprogressive.blogspot.com/ BaileyWuXiang

    What a Nazi thing to do.

  • realnewz

    that explains why Vatican City is made of gold.

  • Anonymous

    EWTN is a Nazi MOTHER-KILLING, CHILD-RAPING, MUNCHAUSEN BY PROXY, terrorist propaganda, overpopulation ponzi racket that features wife-dumper/polygamist/rapist of students/theocon buddy of Karl Rove Deal Hudson who gets Democrats fired from Catholic institutions, never mind that he paid off his rape victim Cara Poppas $30,000 to be quiet about her resulting abortion so his THIRD CHEATED-ON wife wouldn’t clean him out. YOU NAZI defenders of such thugs are why America is falling apart. PEDOPHILE Cardinal Spellman himself welcomed several thousand Nazis into America, you fetal idolatry fool.

  • Anonymous

    Alperin v. Vatican Bank might help explain how the mother-killing, child-sex trafficking, Nazi-electing, money laundering bankster bishops fund their various genocidal ponzi schemes.

  • Anonymous

    It’s sad to see a once great nation now populated by tragic-comic bart simpson parodies who can do no better than to defame a Catholic Church that, though imperfect, is still the instrument of salvation for poor sinners humble enough to see the error of their ways.

  • Anonymous

    I read it on the interweb so it had to be true right? LOL

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_V5XKDORJ6HIVIZ6V5OTK76KTEY Immortal

    Switch a card and dental records are a farce. I was thirteen when I realized this.

  • Anonymous

    You Catholic abuse enablers are DESTROYING the poor!

  • Anonymous

    And locked in an unholy embrace of super6mast.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VGQPF4SAS4BGFLDBZYCATHIVFY Chris Herz

    You mean he didn’t get to the USA via Operation Paperclip?