Born April, 1930, Adolf Martin (later styling himself Martin Adolf) Bormann was the eldest child (of 10) of Martin Bormann and his long-suffering wife, Gerda (born Buch).  His godfather was Adolf Hitler.  Postwar, he rejected Naziism and converted to Roman Catholicism.  He was ordained to the RC priesthood in 1953, serving on the foreign missions in the Congo, but subsequently left the priesthood, carrying on as a teacher of theology and speaker on the evils of the Jewish Holocaust.  I understand that he is currently under accusation of having committed child abuse while a priest and teacher in Austria, accusations which he denies.

I have seen postwar interviews with this man.  He seems to me to have been badly shook, in retrospect,  by the experience of having Martin Bormann for a father; he still comes across to me as, somehow, a frightened person.  As to the child abuse accusation ... who knows ?  There was a lot of it about in the Catholic Church at the time ... Best regards, JR.



Adolf Martin Bormann in "uniform", late-1930s.

Hitler and assembled SA and SS men beam approvingly at a small boy in his minature Stormtrooper uniform.  He probably got a real, full-size uniform later on ... Best regards, JR.

That's my boy !

Daughter of a Nazi Party internal judge/arbitrator, Gerda Buch married Martin Bormann, rising star in the National Socialist Party, in September 1929 at the age of 19.  She appears to have been a devoted National Socialist and, in one respect at least, did her best to live up to Nazi "ideals" by giving Bormann 9 (or was it 10 ?) children, starting with Adolf Martin in 1930.  Bormann himself must have been difficult to live with.  An inveterate womaniser and keeper of mistresses, his letters (if they were collected in a book, it might be entitled "Memoirs of a Nazi Sex Addict) indicate extraordinary sexual arrogance and sexual fixations that can have left little space for attention to Gerda - in spite of all those children.  At the end of the war, Gerda was rigorously questioned by Allied interrogators (in part, I suppose, because Martin was "missing" at the time).  She was, however, suffering from cancer (not sure when it was diagnosed, exactly) and she died from poisioning of mercury (apparently used in her treatment) at Merano, Italy, in March 1946.  Best regards, JR.