Bormann:                                                                          
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        According to Erich Kempka (Hitler's chauffeur), Bormann was killed 
trying to cross the Russian lines by an anti-tank shell which hit the tank 
in which they were trying to escape, causing it to burst into flames. 
Kempka, who was temporarily blinded at the time, claimed nonetheless to 
have seen Bormann's dead body. Hitler Youth Leader, Artur Axmann, on the 
other hand, believed that Bormann committed suicide and claimed to have seen 
Bormann's body on 2 May 1945, in the Invalidenstrasse, north of the River Spree 
in Berlin. Doubts, however, have persisted and numerous sightings of Bormann 
have been reported, beginning in 1946, when his presence in a North Italian 
monastery was announced. In the same year, his wife Gerda (a rabid Nazi and 
daughter of Supreme Party Judge, Walter Buch) died of cancer in South Tyrol, 
though his ten children survived the war. It was then alleged that Bormann 
had escaped (like other loyal Nazis) via Rome to South America. Rumoured 
to have settled in Argentina where he was living secretly as a millionaire, 
allegedly spotted in Brazil and also in Chile, Bormann's traces proved as 
elusive as the anonymity in which he first rose to power. Having been 
sentenced to death in absentia at Nuremberg on 1 October 1946, 
he was formally pronounced dead by a West German court in April 1973, 
but his precise fate remains unknown. It's pretty certain he died in first few days of May 1945!  
                                 
        Dead is dead but Stalin should have been cremated and ashes thrown 
into the sewer, like Hitler's. At least Kruschchev buried his ass deep in an unmarked grave.

-Jan Pawel Lary Lubek, 1999