Aftermath: Nazis' Financial 4th Reich exposed in the 1970s, Ladislas Farago, NYT editor Tom Lipscomb

SPECIAL GUEST Thomas Lipscomb - New York Times journalist, editor and in-house book publisher. Tom was the publisher of 'Aftermath, Martin Bormann and the Forth Reich' in 1970s which started the academic and professional public documentation of Adolf Hitler's private secretary Martin Bormann who had done deals for the Nazi loot with the Allies at the and of World War Two - https://politicsthisweek.gn.apc.org/2026/11/the-bristol-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-47/ Tom Lipscomb is a prominent journalist and investigative reporter based in New York. He has held various leadership roles in major media companies and has been a key figure in the digital technology sector. Lipscombe is known for his investigative reporting and has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2005. He is also a senior fellow at the Annenberg Center for the Digital Future and has contributed to numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. His work often addresses U.S. policy and publishing industry dynamics, making him a respected voice in the field of journalism. , 4th Reich, Ladislas Farago's book Thick with documentation (Argentine Intelligence reports, photos of Bormann in the bunker, in Berlin, in Bolivia, of associates, of--even--Miss Nazi, of S. America, of '68), this is an account of Farago's odyssey, his journey thru jungles of Brazil & Paraguay, his trip to the Andean plateaus, his deductions, speculations, suspicions, interviews with Bormanniacs, riskings of his life--all to track down the highest ranking survivor of Nazism. Farago attempts to shoot holes in the Germanic version of Bormann's death with his Fuhrer, which was based upon the discovery of an "obscure carcass" & a confusing dental picture (reproduced). There was something of a sensation raised when in '72 the author 1st disclosed his findings, but it subsided as quickly as it rose. The problem with even this wealth of details being the general--& healthy--suspicion that doctoring, somewhere along the line, was possible. Farago feels that Bormann was protected by the Peronist government in the early & mid-50s; & not without sins of passivity on the part of the FBI--the tacit collusion a consequence of our need for pan-American alliance during the Cold War. This sounds plausible; yet it also sounds too easy. Farago explains what he considers Israel's current disinterest as a matter of it's ceased being an adventuring nation & has taken its place as a mature, compromising state. Again, plausible. Yet, the main ingredient is missing. The book ends with Farago discovering an old & senile Bormann at a hospital in SW Bolivia. But the palpable question how do we know?-- Ladislas Farago was a military historian and journalist who published a number of best-selling books on history and espionage, especially concerning the World War II era. He was the author of Patton: Ordeal and Triumph, the biography of General George Patton that formed the basis for the film "Patton" and wrote The Broken Seal, one of the books that formed the basis for the movie ''Tora! Tora! Tora!''. One of his more controversial books was Aftermath: Martin Bormann and the Fourth Reich . Farago is a dependable historian of WWII, particularly as regards black operations, i.e. espionage. This book is more focused than most, being a personal, well-documented investigation of the whereabouts, if any, of Martin Ludwig Bormann, Hitler's private secretary and Parteikanzlei head, after the defeat of Nazi Germany. Farago's conclusion: he lived and settled in South America with the connivance of several dictatorships and the passivity of the United States of America. This conclusion is much debated. Martin Borman is alive and well and living in Argentina, at least as of 1974 when this book was published. Ladislas Farago, author of PATTON: ORDEAL AND TRIUMPH, the basis for the 1970 film, blew that one, but he scored a perfect 100 points in documenting the South American exile of Dr. Joseph Mengele, "the Angel of Death" and Klaus Barbie, "The Butcher of Lyon". Mengele lived undercover, moving back and forth between the borders of Paraguay and Brazil. Farago even reproduces photographs from Brazilian magazines depicting a mustachoed Mengele. Barbie lived an underground life in Bolivia, where he used the torture techniques he had practiced on Jews and maquisards in France on political prisoners in his adopted land. All of this, Faraop claimed, took place under the supervision of the CIA and the indifference of the Israelis, who badly needed South American allies after the 1967 Six-Day War. Think of MARATHON MAN or THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL, but only for real. Mengele's body, and post-1945 whereabouts, were not discovered until after Farago's death, while Barbie got shipped back to France once he was no longer a valuable Cold War asset.