“The forensic scientists realized that the skeletons had been under the earth for a long time,” wrote Charles Whiting in his book The Hunt for Martin Bormann: The Truth. “They concluded too that, as they could find no other sign of injuries, the two men had taken poison. It was then that someone told them that, seven years earlier, a retired postal worker, Albert Krumnow, had claimed that he had buried the bodies of Martin Bormann and Dr. Ludwig Stumpfegger in this very area, indeed only twelve meters away from where the skeletons had been unearthed.”

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Comparisons of dental records were made, and two of Bormann’s sons reported that he had broken his collarbone in 1939 while riding a horse. The dental records were a match according to the dentist who treated both Hitler and Bormann. The shorter skeleton, which matched Bormann’s height, showed where a broken collarbone had healed. A photographic montage and plastic reconstruction of the head were made, revealing features very similar to photos of Bormann taken in 1945. The West German government declared Bormann officially dead in 1973.

Last spring, DNA expert Wolfgang Eisenmenger postively matched samples from the skeleton to DNA taken from one of Bormann’s living relatives, according to the Welt am Sonntag newspaper and Der Spiegel magazine. This should end the rumors and speculation. The mystery of Martin Bormann turns out to be no real mystery at all. As decades of intrigue unfolded, his body lay buried in an unmarked grave in a Berlin he never left.

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