He was Martin Bormann's eldest and AH's godson. The second photo is presumably from the day of his ordination.
As a boy, he was actually arrested by the Americans whilst he was serving Mass.
Sadly, he later "left" the priesthood to get "married" to a nun.
And finally, before he died, he was accused, whilst he had been ministering as a priest and working as a teacher in a posh boarding school, of having had gay sex with one of the young boys he'd been in charge of.
(Funny how these things happen, but a grimly instructive irony that the same accusations that had been made against Catholic priests by the Third Reich in the 1930s should again be made against the son of the Party Chairman only a generation later!)
So all-in-all a partly inspiring but mainly tragic life, and a story of a young faith successively betrayed, first by the Third Reich and then by the Catholic Church itself at the Second Vatican Council, when it turned its back on its heritage and embraced the same Americanist ideology that had already done for Germany.
On his soul, and on the souls of all the Faithful Departed, may God have mercy!
As a boy, he was actually arrested by the Americans whilst he was serving Mass.
Sadly, he later "left" the priesthood to get "married" to a nun.
And finally, before he died, he was accused, whilst he had been ministering as a priest and working as a teacher in a posh boarding school, of having had gay sex with one of the young boys he'd been in charge of.
(Funny how these things happen, but a grimly instructive irony that the same accusations that had been made against Catholic priests by the Third Reich in the 1930s should again be made against the son of the Party Chairman only a generation later!)
So all-in-all a partly inspiring but mainly tragic life, and a story of a young faith successively betrayed, first by the Third Reich and then by the Catholic Church itself at the Second Vatican Council, when it turned its back on its heritage and embraced the same Americanist ideology that had already done for Germany.
On his soul, and on the souls of all the Faithful Departed, may God have mercy!
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