OFFICE OF STRATEGIC SERVICES 
               WASHINGTON. D. C.
 
 
                                   20 MARCH 1944
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
     You will note that in Hewitt's statement, he refers to Bormann as having obtained a strong
position in Germany.  Below is a brief biography of Bormann, which may give you some
information not heretofore available:
     Martin Bormann occupies at the present time a position as head of the Party Chancellery
of the Nazi Party and is a member of the Ministerial Consul for the Defense of the Reich.  He acts
as the Deputy of the Fuhrer.  He has been described both as the No. 2 and the No. 3 Nazi, and
along with Himmler, Goring, and Goebbels is alleged to be the fourth member of the group
designated to take over the control of Germany in the even of the death of Hitler.  Press accounts
in Sweden and elsewhere state that Bormann is the most important Nazi next to Hitler.
     Life: Bormann, the son of a Lutheran farmer,