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INNSBRUCK, Austria —() -Martin Adolf Bormann, son of the Nazi leader who tried to wipe out religion, has dedicated his life to bring “the grace of God to all mankind.” In a ceremony in the Jesuit Holy Trinity Church here, he was one of 26 deacons or dained priests of the Roman Catholic Church. He wants to do missionary work in the Bel gian Congo. Attending the rituals and united for the first time since the downfall of the Third Reich in 1945 were surviving mem bers of the Bormann family. Bormann’s father, Hitler's top lieutenant and head of the Nazi party, disappeared from Hitler’s bomb shelter in Berlin in the final days of the war. He was sentenced to death in absentia by the Allied War Tribunal at Nuernberg in 1946. He is believed dead. Martin Jr., now a 28-year old bearded monk of the Sac red Heart of Jesus Mission Or der, became separated from his family and fled alone to the Austrian Province of Salzburg in 1945. He was sheltered by a Cath olic family and accepted the Catholic faith in 1947. Shortly afterward he entered the Sac red Heart of Jesus in order to prepare for the priesthood. ‘AP Wirephoto Martin Adolf Bormann
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Racine Journal Times Sunday Bulletin
Racine, Wisconsin, US
Sun, Jul 27, 1958
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