VICTIM OF ASSASSIN

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 113, 6 February 1936, Page 9

VICTIM OF ASSASSIN

Leader of Swiss Nazis

ASSAILANT SAID TO BE < JEW '

Zurich, February 4.

Wilhelm Gustloff, a German subject, leader of the Swiss Nazis, was assassinated at his home at Davos. He was struck by live bullets. The alleged assassin, David Frankfurter, aged 26, a Yugoslavian medical student, surrendered to the police. He stated that he broke into Gustloll’s home and committed the murder because of his hatred of the Nazis. Swiss Socialists had repeatedly asked for the expulsion of Gustloff, alleging that he was not only a Nazi leader but ’an agent provocateur who formerly published a German newspaper in Switzerland which was suppressed in retaliation for Germany banning certain Swiss newspapers. , The Zurich police state that Frankfurter went to Gustloll’s house, explaining that h e wanted to discuss important business. Frau Gustloff showed him into the drawing-room, where her husband was shot immediately he entered.

Frankfurter, who is reported to be a Jew, abandoning his hat, ran to the police station brandishing a revolver at a passer-by who tried to stop him. He told the police that he never mixed in politics and that he had no motive except resentment against the German system. Gustloff, it is reported, abused Swiss hospitality and was conspiring to recapture German refugees. Frankfurter says he is not a Communist and that he committed the raurder on his own initiative. The Basle correspondent of “The Times” says that Frankfurter told the police thfi crime was au act of vengeance by the Jewish race.