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...German Army guards sent to his home by the late General Werner von Fritsch. By 1935 Papen had proved his usefulness to Adolf Hitler as Minister to Austria, but Austrian Nazis tried several times to obliterate the Minister. In 1937 Papen's murder was ordered by Rudolf Hess and prevented by Papen's own agents...
Adolf Hitler appointed a successor to Rudolf Hess as second in the Nazi line of succession, following porcine Hermann Goring. The world had heard little of the appointee, Martin Bormann, but he was soundly qualified...
...nimble manipulator of Party funds, was treasurer of Hitler's 1932 Hilf-skasse racket, whereby money supposedly collected for injured Storm Troopers was turned over to Nazi leaders. Bormann enjoyed Party finance; in 1936 he bought a Mercedes-Benz deluxe for 38,000 marks. He rose to be Hess's administrative right hand, also got close to Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler...
During the weeks just before Hess's flight to Britain, Bormann began to replace him ceremonially. He marched in Hess's place directly behind Hitler during the Führer's birthday celebration in April 1941. Since Hess's flight. Bormann has seen Hitler regularly, even on the Russian front...
Died. Sol Hess, 69, comic-strip creator (The Nebbs); of a heart attack; in Chicago. Wholesale jeweler, no artist, he dreamed up The Nebbs in 1923, found a cartoonist to draw his ideas...