Son of Hitler's deputy faces accusations of sexual assault

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Source: The Independent (UK)

Son of Hitler's deputy faces accusations of sexual assault
By Tony Patterson in Berlin
Tuesday, 4 January 2011


The eldest son of Adolf Hitler's secretary, Martin Bormann, was yesterday accused of subjecting a former pupil at an Austrian Catholic boarding school to violent and protracted sexual abuse during his time there working as a priest and schoolmaster, more than 50 years ago.

Martin Bormann Jnr, the 80-year-old son of one of the Nazi leader's most important deputies, is renowned in Germany and Austria for his attempts to atone for his father's crimes. He has been a Catholic missionary, priest and a speaker against the Holocaust in schools.

Yesterday, however, the son of one Hitler's closest advisers faced serious allegations that he had assaulted pupils both violently and sexually while employed as a schoolmaster at an elite boarding school at the Hearts of Jesus monastery in Salzburg during the 1960s. Bormann is reported to have denied knowledge of the events.

The accusations, which were the latest in a flood of sex-abuse allegations against the Catholic church which began surfacing in Germany and Austria early last year, were made by a 63-year-old former pupil at the monastery school, named only as Victor M.

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[Yupster]

1. Geeze - that's rough

Getting accused of something 50 years later seems tough.

No idea whether he's innocent or guilty, but 50 years after the fact seems hard to defend yourself.

[Skittles]

2. the victims don't forget after 50 years

no INDEED

[Egnever]

3. They should try

no good for you carrying that shit around with you.

[xchrom]

4. there's a choice in such a thing? nt

[SpiralHawk]

6. Forgiveness is one thing. Forgetting is another.

And justice for the perps is yet another.

Are you suggested that brutal sexual perps walk away scott free? That kind of thinking has the ugly smack of Republicon Family Values about it.

[COLGATE4]

5. That's the reason that most crimes (excepting capital ones) have

a statute of limitations. It's almost impossible to produce any credible testimony and/or evidence of an act allegedly committed fifty years ago.

[rasputin1952]

7. 50 years ago?

Unless there is corroborating evidence/complaints from the time this allegedly happened...it will be an extremely difficult case to prosecute. It appears that the Bormann name is being used to gains some cash.

Don't get me wrong, what the elder Bormann did was horrific, but there appears to be a "corruption of blood" situation here. It will be interesting to see m if anything comes of this, but I doubt it.