Talk:Albert Bormann

Sentence
What was Bormann sentenced for? Six months of hard labor must have been a consequence of something more than answering Hitler's private letters. Royalcourtier (talk) 05:25, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
 * None of my sources state anymore detail and I have not found further detail in a search. With that said, it was a German de-nazification court and given his closeness to Hitler and being chief of Hauptamt I: Privatkanzlei (Personal Affairs of the Führer) in the Kanzlei des Führers der NSDAP, it could be said to be a light sentence. But given it only dealt with Hitler's routine correspondence and dealings between the Nazi Party and Hitler, that was probably taken into account. If he had been head of Hauptamt II: Angelegenheiten betr. Staat und Partei (Affairs of the Party, State, and the Armed Forces) instead of chief, Viktor Brack, he would have been executed. Hauptamt II (and Brack) played a key role in organizing the killing of physically or mentally handicapped people in the Nazi Action T4 programme. Kierzek (talk) 14:47, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Allegedly NYT 21 Sept 1949:6:6 Xx234 (talk) 07:25, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

I am not sure that the denazification tribunals had the power to sentence anyone to anything. Their function was to decide on someone's degree of Nazi complicity. Those found to be complicit were then interned by the occupying forces (in Bormann's case, the Americans). The German wikipedia article says he was 'interniert' for six months. He was manifestly a Nazi, but he was not in any sense tried for war crimes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.34.254.245 (talk) 15:14, 1 November 2017 (UTC)