WEST GERMANY’S PRESIDENT
ASSASSINATION SAID TO HAVE BEEN PLANNED BONN, February 14. The Germampolice revealed to-night that a fanatical former Nazi had planned to kill the 66-year-old West German President (Dr. Theodor Heuss) in Hanover last November. The man was arrested in the American zone on December 6 for not having identity papers. His notebook was said to include an entry that he intended to kill Dr. Heuss when the President visited Hanover on November 30.
The police said that the man had told the Hanover Public Prosecutor that, as a convicted Nazi, he wanted to murder the President, but refrained when he saw him surrounded by women and children at the station.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26039, 16 February 1950, Page 5
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