00:00By 1941, Josef Wagner stood at the height of his political career. Yet, behind this facade of
00:07success, he had made powerful enemies among the most ruthless men of the Nazi hierarchy. Among
00:14them were Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS, and Martin Bormann, Hitler's private secretary
00:20and chief of the party chancellery. Both men despised Wagner. Himmler distrusted him for
00:27his independence and lack of fanaticism, while Bormann, a militant atheist, viewed Wagner's
00:34open Catholic faith as a direct challenge to the ideological purity of the Nazi party.
00:40Bormann, one of the most virulently anti-religious figures in the Nazi leadership, seized every
00:46opportunity to destroy him. Discover the full story on worldhistory.tv