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Show Seven Earlier Tries to Kill HitlervListedl LONDON, Nor. t (UP) Seven Sev-en previous attempts to kill Adolf Hitler In the last seven years were recalled today, along with the fact that In 1S3S the rumors of plots against him became so persistent that insurance premium pre-mium rates against his death soared to 6 per cent The most recent attempt prior to last night's explosion at the Munich beer cellar was reported by Heinrich Hlmmler, relch police po-lice ehiet during Hitler's tour of the battlefields. No details were given. The plotters went to work In 1933 when Hitler was opposing Von Hlndenburg In the German presidential election. A dozen rifle ri-fle shots were fired at a train In which he was riding. In March. 1935, Copenhagen police discovered a plot to assassinate assas-sinate him and start a revolt In Germany. Many were arrested. In June, 1938, when Hitler was speaking In Vienna, a shot was fired at him from a window and a storm trooper killed. Another attempt was made about the same time when his automobile was crossing the Prater Pra-ter river at Vienna. A shot fired at the car struck Julius Shreck, Hitler's bodyguard. Shreck died the same month and was buried with the highest military honors. About this time It was reported report-ed that friends of Captain Ernst Rohm, slain In the next "blood purge," had formed a secret organization or-ganization known as "Rohm's Avengers" and that Hitler feared them. . On January 10, 1939, Ernst Niekisch, well-known nationalist writer, was sentenced at Berlin to life Imprisonment after he and 20 others had been tried for plotting plot-ting to kill Hitler and other high nazia. Fifty alleged minor participants par-ticipants also were convicted. Last August the Polish radio station reported that an attempt had been made to kill Hitler at the Kroll opera house. The persistence of these plots has been a source of amazement abroad In view of the vast precautions pre-cautions taken for his safety. Precautions have become more stringent since the war, but even In normal times there Is a small army of guards looking after him. |