NAZI DONE TO DEATH.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13175, 6 February 1936, Page 5

NAZI DONE TO DEATH.

YUGOSLAVIAN S DEED.

HATRED OF GERMAN SYSTEM. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. ZURICH, February 4. Wilhelm Gustloff, a German subject, leader of the Swiss Nazis, was assassinated at his home at Dovas. He was struck by five bullets. The alleged assassin, David Frankfurter. aged 26, a Yugoslavian medical student, surrendered to the police. He stated that he broke into Gustloff’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. JEWISH VENGEANCE ALLEGED. ZURICH, February 4. In connection with the assassination of the leader of the Swiss Nazis, Wilhelm Gustloff, the Zurich police state that Frankfurter went to Gustloff’s house, explaining that he wanted to discuss important business. Frau Gustloff showed him into the % drawing room, where her husband was shot immediately lie entered. Frankfurter, who is reported to be a Jew, abandoning his hat, rail 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 murder on his own initiative. The Times' Basle ' correspondent says that Frankfurter told the police the crime was an act of vengeance by the Jewish race. GERMANY INDIGNANT. BERLIN. February 5. Hitler telegraphed his condolences to Gustloff*s widow in the name of the whole German people. He said: “The abominable crime which ended the life of a true German caused the deepest indignation throughout the. nation.*' Nazi leaders and newspapers are using the murder for more intensive anti—Jewish propaganda. The Volkischer Reobaeliter say s if the Nazi attitude towards Jews needed any justification this shameful act supplied it. It adds: “This murder was made possible only* by the atmosphere of hatred and envy of Germany created by the Jews.” Hitler’s deputy, Hess, . also telegraphed G list oh. iff * s widow referring to her husband as one of Hitler's oldest sufiporters. The news of the murder of Gustloff caused dancing to be stopped at a reception given by Baron von Neurath to 1500 guests at tin H< tel Kaiserhof.