FRANKFURTER MURDER

Northern Advocate, 6 February 1936, Page 5

FRANKFURTER MURDER

THE ASSASSIN’S STORY

VENGEANCE ON NAZIS.

HITLER SHOULD HAVE BEEN TARGET.

(Received 11 a.m.)

BERNE, February 5

David Frankfurter, the YugoslavJewish medical student who shot Wilhelm Dustloff, the Swiss Nazi leader, dead in his home, insists 'that he has no personal reason for the assassination, and that '*he was

not inspired by any organisation. He adds that it would have been better had the bullet struck Herr Hitler. It is disclosed that Frankfurter is suffering from an incurable bone disease, and was recently told that an operation would be necessary. He told his landlady that he did not consider life worth living in* the circumstances.

Frankfurter informed the police that he killed Dustloff because he was poisoning the atmostphere of Switzerland with propaganda from a country where Jews were not allowed to lead a normal life. While all Switzerland is shocked by the crime, some trouble has long been feared as the outcome of Nazi persecution of Jews.

DEEP INDIGNATION IN GERMANY

(Received 10 a.m.)

BERLIN, February 5,

The news of the murder of Wilhelm Gustloff in Switzerland, caused dancing to be stopped at a reception given by Baron von Neurath to 1500 guests in the hotel Kaiserhof last evening.

Herr Hitler telegraphed condolences to Gustloff’s widow “in the name of the whole German people.” He said: “This abominable crime, whlcK has ended the life of a true German, has caused the deepest indignation throughout the nation.

Nazi leaders are using the murder for more intensive anti-Jewish propaganda. r ‘Volkischer Boebachter” says; “If .the Nazi attitude towards Jews needs any justification, this shameful act has supplied it. This murder was made possible only by the atmosphere of hatred and envy of Germany created by the Jews.’ Herr Hitler’s deputy, Herr Hesse, also telegraphed to Gustloff’s widow, leferring to her husband as one of Hitler’s oldest supporters.