Former SS Man Is Acquitted Bonn (JTA) — Bruno Karl Blach, an accused Nazi war criminal who eras extradited to Germany from the United States following a lengthy legal procedure, was ac- quitted last week of all charges against him. In addition, Dominik Gleba, another accused Nazi, drew a suspended two- year prison sentence from the same court. The prosecution had charged both men with hav- ing shot slave labor camp inmates in Austria in April 1945. The court in the western German city of Duisberg found that it could not prove guilt against Mr. Blach, who is 73. Mr. Gleba, also 73, receiv- ed a suspended two-year sentence for complicity in the murder of one inmate. That murder occurred dur- ing a so-called "death mar- ch," when 2,500 inmates of the Wiener-Neudorf slave labor camp were ordered to walk to the Mauthausen death camp. Mr. Blach was extradited to Germany in 1990 to stand trial for killing inmates at two concentration camps where he served as a guard. A native of Czechoslovakia, Mr. Blach lived in the Los Angeles suburb of La Habra. The U.S. Justice Department charged that he entered the United States illegally in 1956, having lied to U.S. authorities about his wartime activities in the Waffen SS. He maintained he had been in the German army and air force. The Justice Department's Office of Special Investiga- tions alleged that Mr. Blach joined the Nazi Party in January 1939, becoming a Death's Head battalion SS guard and dog handler at the Dachau death camp from 1940 to 1943 and at the Wiener-Neudorf camp from 1943 to 1945. A West German investiga- tion indicated that Mr. Blach, as an SS corporal, killed 38 inmates at Wiener- Neudorf because they were too weak to evacuate when the camp was liberated by American troops in April 1945. His deportation trial in southern California was an emotionally charged pro- ceeding where numerous Holocaust survivors gave testimony against him. DON'T SACRIFICE THE COMFORT OF YOUR RETIREMENT IRA GUARANTEED RATES AS HIGH AS 7 '/2% Free Transfers On CD's & IRA Rollovers Monthly Income Available CALL 948-7844 Bruce Marwil Deadline is April 15th! MAR-WIL & ASSOCIATES: A personal Financial Planning Service Farmington Hills Registered representative. Securities offered through Pladner Financial Services, Inc. Member NASD-SIFC HAPPY, HEALTHY PASSOVER TO OUR CUSTOMERS AND FRIENDS ip JEWELRY DESIGN & MFG. LTD. Applegate Square • 29847 Northwestern Hwy. Southfield, Michigan 48034 • (313) 356-7007