Mystery still surrounds Hitler's deputy's death

A recent report reveals that Adolf Hitler's second-in-command, Martin Bormann's demise is still shrouded in shadows despite extensive efforts by the UK to find the politician.

Bormann, Nazi Germany's second-in-command, disappeared after the fall of the Third Reich, Germany's ruling system between 1933 until 1945, and could not be identified even after decades after the collapse of Germany's dictatorship.

Recent documents from the British National Archives demonstrate that the German leader's deputy escaped his death sentence meted out to him in absentia in the course of the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal a year after the World War II.

The British intelligence service has-long sought to capture Hitler's right-hand man who is accused of facilitating the Holocaust the National Archives files add.

Bormann's capture was crucial for the British as they wanted to establish a link between Adolf Hitler and Germany's then secret police commander Heinrich Himmler who committed suicide, dashing hopes for interrogation by the allied forces.

His possible detention could also provide information, which would lead the authorities to other senior Nazi directors who escaped unidentified, the account concludes.

Bormann spent long hours' in Hitler's company, writing down the 'reclusive' leader's ideas on various issues.

Remains of a body, found in Berlin in 1972, were officially attributed to the politician in 1973 following a number of examinations. However, many still claim that the Bormann was never found. PressTV

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