Martin Adolf Bormann

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Martin Adolf Bormann (born Adolf Martin Bormann on April 14, 1930) is the eldest of ten children of Martin Bormann and the godson of Adolf Hitler.

He was born Adolf Martin Bormann, the first child of Martin Bormann (1900 - 1945) and his wife Gerda Buch (1909 - 1946). Nicknamed Krönzi which is short for "Kronprinz" (Crown Prince), he was an ardent young Nazi, attending the Party Academy in Bavaria from 1940 to 1945. His first exposure to atrocities committed under Nazi rule was in 1944 when he visited Himmler's mistress with his mother and sister. "After chocolate and cake, she insisted on taking the children upstairs to show them the 'special collection' Himmler kept in the attic. 'It was a room under the roof - not big but with a window. And the furnishings were very strange. There was a standard lamp, for example, with a lampshade made out of parchment. And this lampshade made out of parchment was made with human skin.'"[1]

In 1947 he became a Roman Catholic and in 1953 was ordained a priest, serving in the Ordensgemeinschaft der Herz-Jesu-Missionare (Sacred Heart Fathers), in the Belgian Congo for many years. [2] Asking for reassignment to South America, Bormann's request was denied by Vatican officials, wary of his father's prominence in history, as well as his purported exile to Argentina. Disaffected and under influence of the radical changes of the 1960s, not in the least Vatican II and its spirit sweeping through the Church, Martin Adolf resigned the priesthood. Following a near-fatal injury in 1969 he was nursed back to health by a nun, (Sister) Cordula, who then also renounced her vows. They were married in 1971.

He became a teacher of theology and retired in 1992. As recently as 2001, he toured schools in Germany and Austria, speaking about the horrors of the Third Reich, and has even visited Israel, meeting with holocaust survivors.[3]