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Gustloff was given a state funeral in his birthplace of Schwerin in Mecklenburg with Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler, Martin Bormann and Joachim von Ribbentrop in attendance.
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Wilhelm Gustloff ( January 30, 1895-February 4, 1936 ) was the German leader of the NSDAP ( Nazi ) party in Switzerland ; he founded the Swiss branch of the party at Davos in 1932, which organized German citizens living in Switzerland.
Gustloff was shot and killed in 1936 by David Frankfurter, a Jewish student incensed by Gustloff's antisemitic activism.
Gustloff was made a Blutzeuge of the Nazi cause and his murder later became part of the propaganda serving as pretext for the 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom.
The German cruise ship MV Wilhelm Gustloff was named after Gustloff by the Nazi regime ; the ship was sunk in 1945 with the loss of over 9, 000 lives.
Also, the Wilhelm Gustloff Foundation or Wilhelm-Gustloff-Stiftung was named after him.
The small arms factory Berlin Suhler Waffen und Fahrzeugwerke was renamed Wilhelm Gustloff Werke in Gustloff's honor in 1939.
* MV Wilhelm Gustloff, KdF cruise ship and currently the World's worst maritime disaster when she was sunk towards the end of Second World War
Many Baltic Germans were on board the KdF Ship Wilhelm Gustloff when it was sunk by a Soviet submarine on January 30, 1945, in the worst loss of life from a single vessel in maritime history.
They might have been put aboard the Wilhelm Gustloff which left Gotenhafen ( Gdynia ) on 30 January 1945, and was sunk by a Soviet submarine.
David Frankfurter ( July 9, 1909 – July 19, 1982 ) was a Croatian Jew known for assassinating Swiss branch leader of the German NSDAP Wilhelm Gustloff in 1936 in Davos, Switzerland.
Frankfurter found Gustloff's address easily, as it was listed in the phonebook and went to the Gustloff home ; Gustloff's wife, Hedwig Gustloff, received him and showed him into the study, asking him to wait since her husband was on the telephone but would be with him presently.
When Gustloff, who was in the adjoining room, entered his office where Frankfurter was sitting opposite a picture of Hitler, Frankfurter introduced himself as a Jew and then shot him five times in the head, neck and chest ; he left the premises ( according to Heinz Schön, while hearing Hedwig Gustloff's cries ), went into the next house and asked to use the telephone.
Gustloff was made a Blutzeuge / Martyr of the Nazi cause and his assassination later became part of the propaganda serving as pretext for the 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom.
In 1936 Wilhelm Gustloff was assassinated at Davos ; he was the head of the Nazi Party's " Auslands-Organisation " in Switzerland.
The narrator of the novella is the journalist Paul Pokriefke, who was born on 30 January 1945 on the day that the Strength Through Joy ship, the Wilhelm Gustloff, was sunk.
Gustloff and state
Konny shoots him dead, mirroring the shooting of Gustloff by Frankfurter ; after the deed he hands himself in to the police and state that, " I shot because I am a German "; Frankfurter had said, " I shot because I am a Jew ".
Gustloff and with
For example, the ship Wilhelm Gustloff sank taking about 9, 400 people with her – the worst loss of life in a single sinking in maritime history.
* 1945 – World War II: The Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, leading to the deadliest known maritime disaster, killing approximately 9, 400 people.
His assassination is an element of the novel Crabwalk by the German writer Günter Grass with the plot based on the fate of the ship Wilhelm Gustloff.
** Alexander Marinesko, captain of the S-13 submarine which sank the German ship Wilhelm Gustloff with 10, 000 casualties ( d. 1963 )
** The Wilhelm Gustloff, with over 10, 000 mainly civilian Germans from Gotenhafen ( Gdynia ) in the Gdansk Bay, is sunk by three torpedoes from the Soviet submarine S-13 in the Baltic Sea ; up to 9, 400 are thought to have died – the greatest loss of life in a single ship sinking in war action in history.
The worst disasters were the loss of the Cunarder Lancastria in 1940 off Saint-Nazaire to German bombing while attempting to evacuate troops of the British Expeditionary Force from France, with the loss of more than 3, 000 lives ; the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff with more than 9, 000 lives lost, and the sinking of the Cap Arcona with more than 7, 000 lives lost in the Baltic Sea in 1945.
Frankfurter's assassination of Gustloff is the subject of the 1975 Swiss movie Assassination in Davos which gives a good account of the events with much of the film devoted to the subsequent trial.
Although manufactured with pressed steel parts that were spot-welded, because of the complicated vertical breech block mechanism it was difficult to manufacture and only a small number of 1, 408 PzB 38 rifles were built in 1939 and 1940 at the Gustloff Werke plant ; 62 of these weapons were used by German troops in the invasion of Poland in 1939.
Gustloff and Joseph
The assassination of Gustloff rang out through Europe, thanks to Nazi propaganda directed by Joseph Goebbels.
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Thousands lost their lives during the sinkings by Soviet submarine of the refugee ships Wilhelm Gustloff, the Goya, and the General von Steuben.
Gustloff and .
* 1936 – Wilhelm Gustloff, German Nazi party leader ( b. 1895 )
Gustloff, who worked as a Swiss government meteorologist, joined the NSDAP in 1929 and put much effort in the distribution of the antisemitic book The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, to the point that members of the Swiss Jewish community sued the book's distributor, the Swiss branch of the German Nazi Party, for libel.
Februar 1936: das Attentat auf Wilhelm Gustloff ; in: Roland Aergerter ( Hrsg.
* February 4 – Wilhelm Gustloff, German leader of the Swiss Nazi Party ( b. 1895 )
* January 30 – Wilhelm Gustloff, German-born Swiss Nazi party leader ( d. 1936 )
Some of the world's first purpose built cruise-liners, the Wilhelm Gustloff and the Robert Ley, were built to take KdF members on Mediterranean cruises.
Large ships, such as the Wilhelm Gustloff, were built specifically for KdF cruises.
Other prominent firearms manufacturers in Suhl included Simson, ( also known as BSW and then Gustloff Werke under Nazi rule and Ernst Thälmann Suhl under Communist rule ), and C. G.
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At the same moment Wheeler Fiske fired the rifle Mike had given him and another guerrilla was hit.
When the possibility that he had not given reconsideration to so weighty a decision seemed to disconcert his questioners, Mr. Eisenhower was known to make his characteristic statement to the press that he was not going to talk about the matter any more.
We were given a job and we carried it out, and later, his case was taken up by the Disciplinary Committee.
The first royalty whom Mama ever waited on in the White House was Queen Marie of Rumania, who came to a State dinner given in her honor on October 21, 1926.
That was in the days before blood banks, of course, and transfusions had to be given directly from donor to patient.
he was given the difference between that amount and $5000.
Underneath all the high-sounding phrases of royal and papal letters and behind the more down-to-earth instructions to the envoys was the inescapable fact that Edward would have to desert his Flemish allies and leave them to the vengeance of their indignant suzerain, the king of France, in return for being given an equally free hand with the insubordinate Scots.
Yet, the idea imbedded in each was identical: to surround the unknown with mystery and to isolate that class which had been given special dominion over the secrets of God.
He was a captain, he said, in the army, and on the train to New York his purse and all his money had been stolen, and would I lend him twenty-five dollars to be given him at the General Delivery window??
The promise that the lion and the lamb will lie down together was given in the future tense.
That such expansion can be obtained without a raise in taxes is due to growth of the tax digest and sound fiscal planning on the part of the board of commissioners, headed by Chairman Charles O. Emmerich who is demonstrating that the public trust he was given was well placed, and other county officials.
Sam Rayburn took unnumbered secrets with him to the grave, for he was never loquacious, and his word, once given, was not subject to retraction.
As we understand, this directive was given to all city and county employes.
Actually, of course, that label `` controversial '' applied only because he was carrying out the mandate given him by the world organization he headed rather than following the dictates of the Soviet Union.
But then, after the little operetta had been given its feeble amateur rendering, everyone insisted that it was too good to be lost forever, and that the Royal Academy of Music must now have the manuscript in order to give it the really first-rate performance it merited.
The city had recently given him a small salary, but it was not enough to supply even necessities.
He was allowed to spend his nights at an inn near the hospital and he was given some extra money to go to the pachinko parlor -- an excellent place to make contact with the enemy.
At the same time another child -- this one of Shelley's brain -- was given to the world: Alastor, a poem of pervading beauty in which the reader may gaze into the still depths of a fine mind's musings.
For the moment there was no woman in his life, and it was this vacuum that had given Claire her opportunity.
Now Hans had given Ma something of his -- we both had when we thought she was going straight to Pa -- something valuable ; ;
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