Hitler Youth, Bormann's son and the Nazi crown prince. He was later a German theologian laicized Roman Catholic priest, the eldest of the ten children of Martin Bormann and a godson of Adolf Hitler.∼Born Martin Adolf Bormann in Gruenwald, Germany, he was the son of Adolf Hitler's personal secretary and Head of the Nazi Party Chancellery (the Head Office of the Nazi Party) and war criminal Martin Bormann and his wife Gerda Buch. He was the oldest of ten children born to the Bormann family and his father named him Adolf after "Der Fuhrer" Adolf Hitler who was also the child's godfather. The young Bormann was nicknamed "Kronzi" (the Crown Prince) as he was the prince of the Nazi Party. As Bormann grew he embraced the Nazi ideology and joined the Hitler Youth organization. Throughout his youth he was involved in all activities of the Hitler Youth and due to who his father was spent many days in the company of Hitler and other high ranking Nazi party members up until the age of 15 and the end of World War II. When the war ended, he was attending the Nazi Party Academy of Matrei am Brenner in the Tyrol Alps region of Western Austria. The school closed on April 15, 1945 and young Bormann went back to Germany. In Munich, he was told to try and contact his mother but ended up being stranded in Salzburg. He was helped by the Gauleiter of that region, Freidrich Rainer who gave him false identification papers and found him refuge on the farm of a Catholic German farmer named Nikolaus Hohenwarter. Rainer was a member of the SS and he was executed in 1947. He never saw his mother again as she died on April 23. 1946 of stomach cancer. He would not learn of her death for another year. Upon learning of his mother's death, he told Hohenwarter of his true identity who in-turn told his local priest. The priest then contacted the rector of the Church of Maria Kirchtal who took Bormann in. He was serving as an alter boy at the church when he was arrested by American Forces and taken in for questioning but soon released back to the parish. The authorities were only interested in learning the whereabouts of his father but he could not tell them as he did not know. He had been born a Lutheran but converted to Catholicism. He remained at the Church of Maria Kirchtal for several years until he left to join the order of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart. On July 28, 1958 Bormann was ordained as a Catholic priest . In 1961 he was sent to the Congo in Africa where he worked as a missionary until 1964 when he was forced to leave due to a rebellion in the country and to avoid being mur­dered by Congolese rebels. He returned to the Congo in 1966 for another year. In 1969 he suffered a serious injury resulting in him needing nursing care. His needs were met by a nurse-Nun named Rosemarie but nicknamed Cordula. Bormann recovered from his injuries and in the early 1970's resigned the priesthood. Cordula renounced her vows as a nun and the couple married. Bormann went on to teach theology until 1992 when he retired. He had learned the horrors committed by the Third Reich and his father's complicity in the extermination of over 12 million people, and the once young Nazi became an ardent anti-Nazi condemning the Third Reich and specifically his father for the atrocities they had done. His fathers remains had been positively identified in 1998 when German authorities ordered genetic testing on fragments of the skull discovered at a construction site in Berlin. On August 16, 1999 the remains were cremated and the younger Bormann was permitted to scatter his father's ashes in the Baltic Sea. In 2011 he was accused by a former student of his from an Austrian boarding school of raping him when he was a priest and teacher there in the early 1960's. Other students reported he had used physical violence on them at that school as well. He denied any knowledge of what the former students were claiming but could not provide a significant defense for himself due to the onset of dementia. The former priest died two years later at age 82. The man who claimed he was raped, was compensated by the Catholic Church.