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years, I can attest to your integrity, your
understanding of the political process and
your commitment to the community. West
Bloomfield Township is fortunate to have a
candidate with your talent."
—William S. Broomfield
Member of Congress

"George Asker is a wonderfully kind and good
man. He cares deeply about helping other
people and has contributed greatly to the well-
being of our community."
— Dave Honigman
State Senator

"George, I am very pleased to see you running
for West Bloomfield Reasurer."
— Rosie Friedman

"You've been a friend of the community for
over 30 years. I have known you to be a good,
honest and hardworking man."
— Izzy Malin

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John Nichols
MEMBERSHIPS
Oakland County Sheriff
• Has Lived in Oakland County for
Ronna Romney
31 Years.
Republican National Committeewoman
George W. Kuhn
• Co-founder and past treasurer of
Oakland County Drain Commissioner
Wabeek Forest Homeowner's
John Pappageorge
Association.
County Commissioner, Candidate,
•
Served
as Delegate to Oakland
12th Congressiondl District
Judy Riedlinger
County and Michigan State
Chairman, I l th Congressional District
Republican Conventions for the 11th
Alfred C. McGhee •
Congressional District for three terms.
Former Chief of Police, West Bloomfield
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- -• Vice-President of the 400 Club
L. James Hall
(formerly 300 Club) of Oakland
Vice-Chairman, State Republican Committee
County Republicans for many years.
Rudy Lozano
Deputy Campaign Chairman for
• Served on Oakland County Probate
L. Brooks Patterson
Court Advisory Board, co-chair on
Ryan Ambrozaitis
resources and development.
Third Vice-Chairman, State Republican Committee
• Served on Oakland County 48th
Linda Hallmark
Oakland County Circuit Court
District Court Drug Abuse
Michael A. Schwartz
Committee.
Attorney at Law
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4596 Wabeek Forest Drive
Attorney at Law and
Republican 400 Club President
West Bloomfield, MI 48302

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More Attempts To Kill
Hitler Are Uncovered

DOUGLAS DAVIS

Foreign Correspondent

O

ne of the most impor-
tant documents yet to
emerge from the
previously secret archives of
Eastern Europe provides
evidence of at least two Jew-
ish plots to assassinate Adolf
Hitler in 1938.
The document and other
confidential Gestapo cir-
culars were found at district
archives in Potsdam, former-
ly East Germany, and tend
to indicate that the Jewish
community predicted the
horrors ahead and was not,
as assumed, content to
meekly accept its fate.
Staff at Yad Vashem, the
Holocaust museum and
documentation center in
Jerusalem, are studying the
documents to verify their
authenticity and to deter-
mine whether the reports of
the assassination plans were
based on fact or rumor.
According to Yad Vashem
director Dr. Shmuel
Krakowski, more research is
needed to determine the
facts and a search has been
mounted for the Jewish or-
ganizers named in the
documents. "We want to
know if there really was
something or not," he said
recently. .
The Gestapo documents
were prepared between
April and August 1938 and
describe "foreign Jewish
circles" providing funds to
assassinate Hitler and other
_senior Nazi officers.
•
' They do not suggest how
the killings would be carried
out or the fate of the dozens
of suspects, mainly Czech
Jews, who are named in the
documents.
•Among the Czech suspects
named is a businessmen, an
actress, a bank clerk and a
Czech police officer. An
Italian suspect, 25-year-old
Bruno Gabliati, was said to
have been caught carrying a
briefcase containing
weapons concealed in a
camera.
Two other suspects, a
German and a Yugoslav,
were said to have been arm-
ed with pistols, while an-
other,. who was named as
Hess or Huss, was said to
have had an amputated left
foot.
The assassination attemp-
ts were reported to have
been timed to coincide with
the Austrian anschluss in
March 1938, when Germany
took over Austria, and with

the Munich appeasement
agreement in Septembe
1938, when British Prime
Minister Neville
Chamberlain agreed E
legitimize Hitler's conquest
of Czechoslovakia's
Sudentenland.
Additional Gestapo docu:
mentation uncovered by Yad
Vashem researchers in-
dicate another assassinatio
plot against Hitler involving
a 60-year-old Dutch Jewish
diamond dealer, Moritz
Roselaar, who reportedly
dispatched three unnamed
killers to Germany armed
with powerful guns and si
lencers.
The assassination of a
German diplomat in Paris,
allegedly by a 17-year-old
Polish Jew, Hershl
Grynszpan, whose parents
had been deported from.
Germany to Poland, sparke
the Kristallnacht pogrom in
Germany in 1938.

But the most well-known
and well-documented
assassination attempt re-
mains the plot by senior
dissident German offic
who planted a bomb and
the table at which Hitler
was holding a meeting in
July 1944.
Disclosures of Jewish
assassination attempts on
Hitler are only the latest •
a series of revelations abou
the Holocaust period that
have been revealed since the
collapse of the Soviet bloc
and the parting of the Iron
Curtain.
Among the most notable
documents found so far hav
come from Soviet archives
and include details of pro-
ceedings at Soviet war
crimes trials for atrocities
perpetrated in German-
occupied parts of the Soviet
Union.
The most valuable find,
however, is a 27-volume col-
lection of evidence by the
Jewish Anti-Fascist Com-
mittee which includes
letters, diaries and other
testimony.
Officials at Yad Vashem
say the collection offers a
unique, previously
unknown, insight into the
fate of smaller Jewish com-
munities and ghettoes.

According to Dr.
Krakowski, the new
evidence indicates that the
number of Jews killed in the
Soviet Union, previously put
at 1 million, may have been
underestimated by about
250,000. 0

