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Hitler's Traitor : Martin Bormann and the Defeat of the Reich
From deep inside Moscow's infamous Center, the Soviet Union directed an espionage network of unprecedented size and sophistication.
352 pages, Hardcover
First published May 9, 2000
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February 13, 2008
This is one of the most amazing and unknown stories of WWII. It changes everything you know about WWII. If you are interested in WWII or espionage then this book is a must read.
August 10, 2025
How to Swallow a Spy Story Without Choking on the Truth…
Lou Kilzer’s Hitler’s Traitor spins a tense, well-written narrative about Martin Bormann’s alleged betrayal of Hitler in favor of the Soviet Union. The book’s star witness is Reinhard Gehlen—former Wehrmacht intelligence chief on the Eastern Front, post-war founder of the CIA-sponsored “Gehlen Organization,” and eventual head of West Germany’s BND under a strict and direct supervision of CIA and MI5/6
At first glance, it’s gripping Cold War drama: Gehlen claims that, in the 1950s, reports from behind the Iron Curtain confirmed Bormann as a Soviet agent. Kilzer treats this as a key historical revelation. The problem? Gehlen was a professional liar whose career and survival depended on telling Washington and London exactly the kind of stories they wanted to hear.
After surrendering to the U.S. in 1945, Gehlen bargained his way out of a POW camp by trading his files and networks on the Soviets. The OSS—and later the CIA and MI6—built him back up, funding an entire spy apparatus staffed with former Nazi officers. By 1956, it became the BND, with Gehlen still in charge. His word was never neutral; it was a weapon in the Anglo-American propaganda arsenal.
And here’s where Kilzer’s account veers into dangerous credulity. When a man like Gehlen says “Soviet agent,” the first question any serious historian should ask is: whose asset was he really? Given Gehlen’s role as a CIA/MI6 proxy, accusing Bormann of being Moscow’s man could have been deliberate misdirection—shielding the possibility that Bormann was, in fact, protected and possibly utilized by Western intelligence for post-war financial and political operations, especially those tied to Nazi gold and South American ratlines.
Worse, Kilzer never even entertains the most incendiary possibility: that Hitler’s personal shielding of Bormann during the war was not loyalty to a comrade, but protection of a fellow operative serving the same transnational power. This theory points beyond mere espionage into the realm of coordinated elite control—both men as instruments of the same Illuminati-Masonic banking syndicate, centered on the Rothschild network in London.
In that framework, the supposed East–West rivalry was largely theatre. The same financial oligarchy bankrolled Stalin’s Soviet Union, Churchill’s Britain, and Roosevelt’s America. The Second World War, then, becomes less a clash of ideologies and more a managed conflict—engineered to consolidate global power, rearrange empires, and eliminate nationalist forces that threatened the syndicate’s dominance.
Kilzer’s clean prose and thriller pacing make the book enjoyable, but it suffers from a fatal flaw: it takes Gehlen’s narrative at face value, ignoring the deep and dirty geopolitical context. Instead of peeling back the layers of deception, Hitler’s Traitor keeps the reader locked inside the Cold War stage play, exactly as Gehlen’s handlers in Langley and Vauxhall would have preferred.
Verdict: Slick, readable, and dangerously incomplete. The real betrayal may not have been Bormann’s alleged Soviet connection, but the decades-long collusion between Nazi remnants, Western intelligence, and the financial elite that owned both Hitler and his enemies.
This book makes you thing in a complete opposites, follow the money and connect the obvious dots:
Plough Theory – Agent “Hitler” as a Zionist Enabler
If we turn on a critical thinking and strip away the Hollywood bull shit framing agent Hitler’s role looks far more like that of a controlled instrument—a plough clearing the land for a new geopolitical crop. That crop was the Zionist state of Israel, planted and cultivated by the same financial syndicate that bankrolled both the Third Reich and the Bolsheviks. This path was well explored by Mr. Kardel in his book Adolf Hitler - Founder of Israel: Israel in War With Jews.
Key indicators:
• The Haavara Agreement (1933) — Direct cooperation between Nazi Germany and Zionist organizations to facilitate Jewish emigration to British Mandate Palestine. German goods were sold in Palestine, funds transferred, and German Jews moved east. Far from “exterminating” all Jews, this policy accelerated the creation of a concentrated Jewish settler base in Palestine.
• Selective Persecution — The Nuremberg Laws, ghettos, and pressure campaigns were horrific—but they also forced a massive transfer of Jewish population and capital toward Palestine. A nightmare for ordinary Jews, but a dream scenario for Zionist strategists and their banking backers.
Agent “Stalin” – The Zionist Midwife
If Hitler was the plough, Stalin was the midwife. In 1947–1948:
• The Soviet Union voted for the UN Partition Plan creating Israel.
• Stalin’s bloc was the first to recognize the new state—ahead of the U.S.
• Eastern European arms, funneled via Czechoslovakia, became critical for Israel’s survival in the 1948 war.
So while the Cold War narrative paints Stalin and Israel as ideological opposites, the facts show he acted as an early guarantor of the Zionist project—just as Hitler acted as its early facilitator. Both served the same masters, even if their propaganda suggested enmity.
None of these “wild theories” discussed in a former Nazi operative book. Interesting 🤨
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Lou Kilzer’s Hitler’s Traitor spins a tense, well-written narrative about Martin Bormann’s alleged betrayal of Hitler in favor of the Soviet Union. The book’s star witness is Reinhard Gehlen—former Wehrmacht intelligence chief on the Eastern Front, post-war founder of the CIA-sponsored “Gehlen Organization,” and eventual head of West Germany’s BND under a strict and direct supervision of CIA and MI5/6
At first glance, it’s gripping Cold War drama: Gehlen claims that, in the 1950s, reports from behind the Iron Curtain confirmed Bormann as a Soviet agent. Kilzer treats this as a key historical revelation. The problem? Gehlen was a professional liar whose career and survival depended on telling Washington and London exactly the kind of stories they wanted to hear.
After surrendering to the U.S. in 1945, Gehlen bargained his way out of a POW camp by trading his files and networks on the Soviets. The OSS—and later the CIA and MI6—built him back up, funding an entire spy apparatus staffed with former Nazi officers. By 1956, it became the BND, with Gehlen still in charge. His word was never neutral; it was a weapon in the Anglo-American propaganda arsenal.
And here’s where Kilzer’s account veers into dangerous credulity. When a man like Gehlen says “Soviet agent,” the first question any serious historian should ask is: whose asset was he really? Given Gehlen’s role as a CIA/MI6 proxy, accusing Bormann of being Moscow’s man could have been deliberate misdirection—shielding the possibility that Bormann was, in fact, protected and possibly utilized by Western intelligence for post-war financial and political operations, especially those tied to Nazi gold and South American ratlines.
Worse, Kilzer never even entertains the most incendiary possibility: that Hitler’s personal shielding of Bormann during the war was not loyalty to a comrade, but protection of a fellow operative serving the same transnational power. This theory points beyond mere espionage into the realm of coordinated elite control—both men as instruments of the same Illuminati-Masonic banking syndicate, centered on the Rothschild network in London.
In that framework, the supposed East–West rivalry was largely theatre. The same financial oligarchy bankrolled Stalin’s Soviet Union, Churchill’s Britain, and Roosevelt’s America. The Second World War, then, becomes less a clash of ideologies and more a managed conflict—engineered to consolidate global power, rearrange empires, and eliminate nationalist forces that threatened the syndicate’s dominance.
Kilzer’s clean prose and thriller pacing make the book enjoyable, but it suffers from a fatal flaw: it takes Gehlen’s narrative at face value, ignoring the deep and dirty geopolitical context. Instead of peeling back the layers of deception, Hitler’s Traitor keeps the reader locked inside the Cold War stage play, exactly as Gehlen’s handlers in Langley and Vauxhall would have preferred.
Verdict: Slick, readable, and dangerously incomplete. The real betrayal may not have been Bormann’s alleged Soviet connection, but the decades-long collusion between Nazi remnants, Western intelligence, and the financial elite that owned both Hitler and his enemies.
This book makes you thing in a complete opposites, follow the money and connect the obvious dots:
Plough Theory – Agent “Hitler” as a Zionist Enabler
If we turn on a critical thinking and strip away the Hollywood bull shit framing agent Hitler’s role looks far more like that of a controlled instrument—a plough clearing the land for a new geopolitical crop. That crop was the Zionist state of Israel, planted and cultivated by the same financial syndicate that bankrolled both the Third Reich and the Bolsheviks. This path was well explored by Mr. Kardel in his book Adolf Hitler - Founder of Israel: Israel in War With Jews.
Key indicators:
• The Haavara Agreement (1933) — Direct cooperation between Nazi Germany and Zionist organizations to facilitate Jewish emigration to British Mandate Palestine. German goods were sold in Palestine, funds transferred, and German Jews moved east. Far from “exterminating” all Jews, this policy accelerated the creation of a concentrated Jewish settler base in Palestine.
• Selective Persecution — The Nuremberg Laws, ghettos, and pressure campaigns were horrific—but they also forced a massive transfer of Jewish population and capital toward Palestine. A nightmare for ordinary Jews, but a dream scenario for Zionist strategists and their banking backers.
Agent “Stalin” – The Zionist Midwife
If Hitler was the plough, Stalin was the midwife. In 1947–1948:
• The Soviet Union voted for the UN Partition Plan creating Israel.
• Stalin’s bloc was the first to recognize the new state—ahead of the U.S.
• Eastern European arms, funneled via Czechoslovakia, became critical for Israel’s survival in the 1948 war.
So while the Cold War narrative paints Stalin and Israel as ideological opposites, the facts show he acted as an early guarantor of the Zionist project—just as Hitler acted as its early facilitator. Both served the same masters, even if their propaganda suggested enmity.
None of these “wild theories” discussed in a former Nazi operative book. Interesting 🤨
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July 7, 2025
Unproven accusations and downright lies about Bormann.
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January 3, 2026
Changes everything about WW2- SS saw writing on wall
& collaborated w/ Soviets from 1942-on. Borman lived in USSR after war- confirmed by other books.
& collaborated w/ Soviets from 1942-on. Borman lived in USSR after war- confirmed by other books.
December 6, 2012
A fascinating look inside the Soviet spy network known as The Red Orchestra and its effect on the outcome of WWII based on records made available for the first time after the fall of the Soviet Union and British and American records declassified when the 50-year time limit expired.
October 19, 2021
Exceptional book about Martin Borman and a most likely explanation of the outcome of WW2. Unsurprisingly this book is out of print, unavailable on kindle or as an audiobook. Picked this book out from this online reference https://www.henrymakow.com/002026.html
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