Eichmann’s View Of Bormann’s Survival

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30944, 28 December 1965, Page 9

Eichmann’s View Of Bormann’s Survival

(N.Z. Press Association —Copyright)

MUNICH, December 27.

Adolf Eichmann took it for granted that his fellow Nazis, such as Martin Bormann, survived the collapse of the Third Reich, his oldest son has told a West German magazine.

Klaus Eichmann told- the magazine, “Quick,” that his father often claimed he had been unjustly accused of war crimes for which others were really to blame. “Father often said those really responsible were still alive —people such as Martin Bormann, Heinrich Mueller and others,” he said. The elder Eichmann was captured in Argentina by Israeli agents in 1960 and taken to Israel for trial. He was executed in 1962 after being convicted for his part in organising the death of millions of Jews.

The office of the Frankfurt prosecutor (Mr Fritz Bauer), in charge of the search for Bormann, recently published a letter in which Eichmann’s second son, Horst Adolf, claimed to have spoken with him several times in South America.

According to the letter, Bormann wanted to turn himself in to an international tribunal for trial. Klaus Eichmann told i “Quick" that his father had contemplated similar action before his abduction. He had ■reckoned with a maximum : sentence of from four to six i years.