In fact, writes Farago, Professor Reider F. Sognnaes, a specialist in oral biology and anatomy who had positively identified Hitler's burnt corpse from its dental records, was so uncertain of the positive Bormann skull identification that he wrote a letter of concern to West German Chancellor Willy Brandt. Sognnaes later stated, according to Farago "that he did not believe that the skull found...was the skull of Bormann." [cdxc Manning confirms this evidence regarding the skull, writing that one of General Gehlen's aids - one of three independent sources refuting the claims about the skull - confided to him that "the skull is a fraud." [cdxci

In the latest development regarding the skull, DNA tests were begun in May 1997 and a positive identification of Bormann was announced in May 1998, though no specific results have been made public. [cdxcii Such a finding would be the final word on the matter if the provenance of the skull was impeccable and the disposition of those who controlled the relic was beyond question neutral.

But, as has been shown, the incontinuities regarding the skull's whereabouts for almost two decades, the reported gross inconsistencies between the dubious dental records and the new-found skull itself, the 50-odd years that have transpired since Bormann's disappearance at age 45 - meaning that Bormann almost certainly had died by 1997 and his handlers may have submitted samples from his actual skull for DNA testing - and the fact he was not even in the grave to begin with, if the Soviet report is true, all combine to cast considerable doubt upon the authenticity of the DNA tests. One last possibility is worth mentioning regarding DNA testing of the skull.

If the Soviet report is wrong and the skull discovered was actually that of the person buried in Lehrter Station with Dr.Stumpfegger, it probably was that of Bormann's double. Mueller, under Bormann's direction as chief of Hitler's security, had successfully found a double for Hitler in one of the Fuehrer's distant cousins. Might he have done the same for Bormann when developing Bormann's double? James O'Donnell, author of The Bunker, noticed on a personal visit to Bormann's hometown that a large percentage of the people there looked like Bormann, and were possible relations. [cdxciii

If the body was that of a Bormann relative, DNA tests quite possibly would have shown a match with the DNA provided by another relative, without the skull being that of Martin Bormann. In all cases, the identity of the skull found at Lehrter Station is far from above suspicion. The author believes, when considered against the preponderance of other evidence and the provenance of the skull itself, the skull most likely is not that of Martin Bormann.

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