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...reception room decorated with jonquils and tulips, on a long oak table were spread calf-bound records, property deeds, Great-Grandfather Willkie's will. Their significance, according to Nazi spokesmen: they prove that Willkie is "a liar." Aschersleben's city archivist, Prussian-headed little Rector Goapka, launched into the story of his Willkie research. He made a big point of the four spellings of the name he found in church and city records: Willke, Willcke, Willeke, Willecke. "But," said he, "the name was never Willicke, as Herr Presidentschaftskandidat said." He grew impassioned, spluttered about blood and Jews, ended...
Gist of Archivist Goapka's findings: the Willkie family did not emigrate 90 years ago in search of freedom, after Germany's abortive Revolution of 1848, but ten years later, because a Jew named Gerson did them out of the coppersmithy...
Archivist Goapka made much of the fact that Bernhard Gerson, who bought the smithy, paid nothing down, instead for 13 years paid Widow Willcke a monthly installment of 7⅔ talers...
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