Martin Bormann
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![Bormann in 1939](/Images/godic/202501/01/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1968-100-21A,_Martin_Bormann3204.jpg")
![Bormann (directly to Hitler's left) in Paris. June 1940](/Images/godic/202501/01/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-2004-0017,_Paris,_Besuch_Adolf_Hitler,_Speer,_Giesler,_Breker3204.jpg")
![Bormann (behind and to Hitler's right) on the Old Bridge, Maribor, Slovenia. April 1941](/Images/godic/202501/01/Bundesarchiv_Bild_121-0723,_Marburg-Drau,_Adolf_Hitler3204.jpg")
Martin Bormann (17 June 1900 – 2 May 1945) was a prominent official in Nazi Germany as head of the Parteikanzlei (Nazi Party Chancellery). He gained immense power within the Third Reich by using his position as Adolf Hitler's private secretary to control the flow of information and access to Hitler.