1. Albert Bormann was a German Nazi Party official who served as a personal adjutant to Adolf Hitler and as the chief of a main office in Hitler's Chancellery.
21 Facts About Albert Bormann
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Albert Bormann reached the general rank of Gruppenfuhrer in the National Socialist Motor Corps during World War II.
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Albert Bormann was the younger brother of Martin Bormann, private secretary to Adolf Hitler and chief of the Nazi Party Chancellery.
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Albert Bormann was the son of Theodor Bormann, a post office employee, and his second wife, Antonie Bernhardine Mennong.
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Albert Bormann had two half-siblings from his father's earlier marriage to Louise Grobler, who died in 1898.
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Antonie Albert Bormann gave birth to three sons, one of whom died in infancy.
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Theodor died when Albert Bormann was one and his mother soon remarried.
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In 1927, Albert Bormann joined the Sturmabteilung, the Nazi paramilitary organization and, on April 27, he joined the Nazi Party.
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Albert Bormann was the Gaufuhrer of the Hitler Youth in Thuringia from 1929 to 1931.
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Albert Bormann believed he was serving the greater good and did not use his position for personal gain.
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Albert Bormann became friends with SS-Obergruppenfuhrer Philipp Bouhler, the chief of Hitler's Chancellery.
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Hitler was fond of Albert Bormann and found him to be trustworthy.
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In 1938, Albert Bormann was assigned to a small group of adjutants who were not subordinate to Martin Albert Bormann.
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The relationship between Martin and Albert Bormann became so caustic that Martin referred to him not even by name but as "the man who holds the Fuhrer's coat".
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Later in 1938, Albert Bormann became Chief of Main Office I: Personliche Angelegenheiten des Fuhrers of the Kanzlei des Fuhrers.
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In that job Albert Bormann handled much of Hitler's routine correspondence.
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At the 1938 parliamentary election, Albert Bormann was elected to the Reichstag for electoral constituency 2 and retained this seat until the fall of the Nazi regime.
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Albert Bormann stayed with his family at the Hotel Post in Hintersee, a couple of miles from Berchtesgaden.
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Albert Bormann worked on a farm until April 1949, when he was arrested.
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Albert Bormann was sentenced by a Munich de-nazification court to six months' hard labor, being released in October 1949.
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Albert Bormann disliked his brother Martin to such an extent that he did not even wish to discuss him in interviews after the war.