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Bonn Seeks Information from Argentina on Man Arrested As Bormann

September 30, 1960
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The West German Foreign Office disclosed today it had instructed the West German Embassy in Buenos Aires to look into the report that a man has been seized by Argentine police on suspicion he may be Martin Bormann, Hitler’s wartime deputy. It was understood that if the suspect proves to be Bormann, the West German Government will immediately ask for his extradition.

(Alfred Vitolo, Argentina’s Minister of the Interior, said in Buenos Aires last night that the arrested man, who gave his name as Walter Flueger, entered Argentina illegally 11 years ago. He was arrested in Zarate, 85 miles from Buenos Aires, by Federal police Saturday. So far police have not been able to identify the suspect positively as Bormann, who was officially declared dead six years ago by authorities in Berlin.)

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