Gustloff affair

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The Gustloff affair is named after the head of the National Group Switzerland of the NSDAP, Wilhelm Gustloff . He was shot dead by the Jewish student David Frankfurter on February 4, 1936 in Davos in the Swiss canton of Graubünden .

consequences

The attack attracted a great deal of international attention. Gustloff was named martyr for the movement by the NSDAP , and Hitler attended his solemn funeral in his native Schwerin . In Germany, the act was used to create anti-Semitism. The murder sparked a storm of indignation against Switzerland in the German press, and German propaganda constructed “complicity of the Swiss hate speech press”.

The Federal Council denied such a connection . But he initiated a stricter application of the press laws and on February 19 he banned the national leadership and district leadership of the NSDAP in Switzerland. Germany protested sharply against this measure on February 20, but the Federal Council stood firm. The continued existence of the NSDAP was still allowed.

Emil Ludwig wrote the book “Mord in Davos” about the events in 1936, which was translated into French in the same year.

David Frankfurter was sentenced to life expulsion and eighteen years in prison on December 14, 1936, nine of which he served. On June 1, 1945 he was pardoned by the Grisons Grand Council . He then emigrated to Israel.

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  1. ↑ Gustloff Affair 1936: Three bullets against Nazi terror. In: SPIEGEL ONLINE. Retrieved February 6, 2016 .
  2. ^ Peter Dürrenmatt : Swiss History; NSB, Swiss publishing house, Zurich 1976.

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