The remains of one of Hitler’s aides were recently buried in the Baltic Sea to prevent his grave site from becoming a pilgrimage site, according to a German newspaper. Genetic tests on a skeleton dug up in 1972 proved that Martin Bormann did indeed commit suicide in 1945.
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