This film concentrates on the intense personal relationship between Hitler and Bormann, showing how Bormann engineered a position for himself which was unparalleled within Hitler's inner circle. By the very end of the war, Hitler named Bormann 'my most faithful Party comrade' and appointed him the next leader of the Nazi Party. The film also lays to rest the enduring rumors about Bormann's mysterious end. It examines Bormann's 'escape' to South America and the allegation that he might have been a Soviet spy.