Martin Borman Hitler's deputy in the Nazi party, second in command of the "Third Reich" Date of Birth: 17.06.1900 Country: Germany

1. Version 1: Bormann was Kidnapped by MI-6 and Secretly Taken to London
2. Version 2: Bormann was a Highly Covert Soviet Spy

Martin Bormann: Deputy of Hitler and Second in Command of the Nazi Party

Martin Bormann, the deputy of Adolf Hitler and second in command of the Nazi Party in the Third Reich, disappeared without a trace from the burning Berlin on the night of May 1, 1945, when the city was stormed by Soviet forces. He was sentenced to death in absentia at the Nuremberg Trials. Despite the passage of 56 years, the case of Bormann remains unresolved. Did Bormann survive in April 1945? And if he did, how did he manage to disappear when the world's best intelligence agencies - the KGB, MI-6, CIA, and Mossad - were hunting him? Three versions exist regarding his fate.

Version 1: Bormann was Kidnapped by MI-6 and Secretly Taken to London

In 1996, former British intelligence officer Creighton released a book titled "The Mystery of Bormann," where he boldly claimed that Martin Bormann did not perish in besieged Berlin but was abducted by MI-6 and secretly transported to London. There, he underwent plastic surgery and lived in England until 1956. However, in April of that year, 1st Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Khrushchev, and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, Bulganin, were expected to arrive in London. Fearing that they might somehow discover Bormann's presence, cunning lords decided to ship him far away - to Paraguay, where Bormann supposedly died in 1959. Not everyone agrees with Creighton's version, though. Many researchers are convinced that Bormann did not go to Paraguay but quietly lived in England until 1989. The Paraguayan version is considered a clever disinformation campaign launched by MI-6. The reason behind this deception was that Bormann was their agent, and intelligence agencies did everything to protect him, including leading everyone on false trails and fabricating Bormann's doubles. It is documented that these doubles operated in Germany, Switzerland, and Italy in the 1950s.

Version 2: Bormann was a Highly Covert Soviet Spy

Another stunning version suggests that Martin Bormann was, in fact, a highly secretive Soviet spy. This revelation came from Marshal of the Soviet Union, Yeremenko, who, before his death in 1970, disclosed to him the state secret of Bormann's true identity. According to the military commander, Bormann was none other than a specially recruited Soviet intelligence agent. These words astonished Tartakovsky, who spent the following 20 years gathering archival records and information about Bormann. What he discovered was that Bormann had been recruited by Soviet intelligence in the late 1920s. He was recommended to the leaders of the GRU Red Army by the leader of the German communists, Ernst Thälmann. Bormann, using the party pseudonym "Comrade Karl," was a member of the "Spartacus League" and an experienced underground operative. He arrived in Moscow, where he met with Joseph Stalin and agreed to infiltrate Hitler's party. This marked the beginning of his ascent to the heights of power in the Third Reich. Bormann's personal acquaintance with Hitler also played a significant role, as they had met on the front lines during World War I when Adolf was still a corporal named Schicklgruber. On April 30, 1945, under Bormann's command, SS members burned the bodies of the poisoned Hitler and Eva Braun, and on May 1, Bormann transmitted his location to Soviet command via radio. At 2 p.m., Soviet heavy tanks approached the Reich Chancellery building. They were led by General Ivan Serov, the head of Soviet military intelligence. Serov and a group of special forces operatives disappeared into the depths of the Reich Chancellery, and soon after, they brought out a man with a bag over his head. The tanks immediately headed for an airfield.

Tartakovsky does not provide information about Bormann's subsequent fate but indicates his burial place - the Lefortovo Cemetery in Moscow, where a grave with the inscription "Martin Bormann 1900-1973" can be found. Is Version 2 possible? It seems entirely plausible. It is worth mentioning another person who had direct involvement in the events described - Joseph Stalin. When he died, he took numerous secrets with him. Perhaps the secret of Bormann was among them. After all, Stalin's personal safe has yet to be found. What documents are stored there? It is known to few that Stalin had between 12 and 14 agents who answered only to him. The fact that these agents existed is evidenced by the case of a prominent statesman and military figure of Tsarist Russia, Guchkov. He served as the Minister of the Provisional Government and Chairman of the State Duma. Guchkov vehemently hated the Bolsheviks and, after emigrating in the 1920s, collaborated with the Gestapo. Recently, it was revealed that one of Stalin's personal agents was Guchkov's own daughter. "Martin Bormann - CIA Agent" is an intriguing theory, but those who claim that the Nazi No. 2 was recruited by the CIA may be inaccurate. The CIA was established in 1947, a time when, according to Creighton, Bormann was in England and cooperating with MI-6. It is unlikely that MI-6 would have missed their valuable agent. Therefore, if Bormann did indeed have contact with the Americans, this contact would have been established before 1947, and Bormann would have been "tempted" by the so-called "Strategic Services Division."

Now, we must ask ourselves: could all of this have been true? From the perspective of an ordinary, honest person, it seems highly unlikely. It all appears too fantastical. However, life has shown us that the opposite is often true. Throughout history, there have been two stories: the overt one and the covert one. We have every reason to assert that our authentic history is the one being concealed.