Martin bormann early life

German Nazi leader and Hitler's secretary (–)

Martin Ludwig Bormann (17 June – 2 May ) was a German Nazi Party official and head of the Nazi Party Chancellery, private secretary to Adolf Hitler, and a war criminal.

Bormann gained immense power by using his position as Hitler's private secretary to control the flow of information and access to Hitler.

Martin bormann early life

He used his position to create an extensive bureaucracy and involve himself as much as possible in the decision making.

Bormann joined a paramilitary Freikorps organisation in while working as manager of a large estate.

He served nearly a year in prison as an accomplice to his friend Rudolf Höss (later commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp) in the murder of Walther Kadow. Bormann joined the Nazi Party in and the Schutzstaffel (SS) in He initially worked in the party's insurance service, and transferred in July to the office of Deputy FührerRudolf Hess, where he served as chief of staff.

Bormann gained a