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THE SINS OF THE FATHERS (St. Thomas Times-Journal) Most of the wanted Nazis after the war were captured. Two or three of the big ones got away, and the biggest of these was Martin Bormann. He had been Adolf Hitler’s right hand man, holding the office of Deputy Fuehrer, and it was well-known that he, next to the Fuehrer himself, was chiefly responsible for the camps in which millions of people were put to death or starved to death. In the last hours of Hitler's life in a deep shelter in Berlin, and just be fore the Fuehrer and his girlfriend ended their lives, Bormann fled the coop. He was seen running on a Berlin street already under fire from Russian tanks. He was never seen again, and it was assumed ,a shell blew him to bits. In any case, he was not mourned; on his hands was the blood of millions, including even helpless children. But he, too, had children—10 of them and the youngest, a skinny boy of 15. Martin Adolf Bormann—named for Hitler—wandered onto a farm in Aus tria, where a Catholic family gave him shelter, and where he worked for two years in return. At 17 he decided to study for the priesthood. At Innsbruck this week he is one of the 26 deacons being ordained in the Jesuit Holy Trinity Church. For nine years he has been preparing in the Order of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, dedicated to mission work around the world. Young Father Borman, now a beard ed monk, has asked to be sent to the Belgian Congo. And so it comes to pass that the son of the man who preached the anti-Christ—who denied the very existence of human brotherhood, and who put his fellow man to fire and torture and the gas ovens—will now go forth into the jungles where primitive men are struggling for the light, and for bread.e obeys the old, old com mand of the Master: “Go and teach all nations,” son. It is not hard to imagine the birth that would have greeted today’s prices among the pioneers of this city ,even for a fancy cabin forty by one hundred feet. However, expensive as it may seem, the projected cabin is a worthy en deavour. It is to be built as a mem orial to our pioneers by the Northern Alberta Pioneers’ and Old Timers’ As sociation. ‘They have chosen a splen did site, the Scona Hill, overlooking several entrances of the city. It will serve as a reminder, not only of the hardships of life in the early settle ment, but also of the hardships that had to be overcome to get here. Edmonton has been sadly indifferent to its past, and few local “antiquities” remain. While it will never be the “real “thing,”” the Association’s cabin is a reversal of this trend, for it repre sents a desire to acknowledge the pioneers’ contribution to this city which is so easily overlooked in today's hectic pace.
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Saint Johns Daily News
Saint Johns, Newfoundland, CA
Tue, Aug 12, 1958
Page 11
Full Page
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