War Crimes: Martin Bormann

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Martin Bormann was the right hand man to Hitler during his reign. Bormann is responsible for many war crimes and crimes against humanity that were addressed during the Nuremberg Trials. "Bormann is the principal Nazi unaccounted for in some manner. He was one of Hitler's most trusted advisors, head of the Nazi party and he attended most of the important policy conferences between Hitler and his military and political lieutenants"(1).
On June 17, 1900, Martin Ludwig Bormann was born in the small town of Halberstadt, Germany, to a lower-class family of civil servants. Orphaned at a young age, Bormann received a secondary education, until he withdrew from high school to enlist in the military at the end of World War I. However, due to his late

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