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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 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.
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 made
The next development, onto which production was immediately switched, was the Panzerbüchse 39 or PzB 39, an improvement made by Gustloff on their PzB 38.
Gustloff and Nazi
* 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.
* 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 )
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.
There, among the Germans and German speaking Swiss, the Nazi movement gained ground, led by Wilhelm Gustloff.
Having become convinced of the danger posed by the Nazis, Frankfurter kept an eye on Gustloff, head of the Foreign Section of the Nazi party in Switzerland, ( NSDAP ) who ordered the Protocols of the Elders of Zion to be published in Switzerland.
The assassination of Gustloff rang out through Europe, thanks to Nazi propaganda directed by Joseph Goebbels.
Gustloff and murder
While the murder of Wilhelm Gustloff by David Frankfurter and the sinking of the ship the Wilhelm Gustloff are real events, the fictional members of the Pokriefke family bring these events into our own time.
On his website (' blutzeuge. de ') he explores the murder of Gustloff and the sinking of the ship, in part through a dialogue in which he adopts the role of Gustloff, and that of David Frankfurter is taken by another young man, Wolfgang Stremplin.
Gustloff and for
Large ships, such as the Wilhelm Gustloff, were built specifically for KdF cruises.
* David Frankfurter-Croatian Jew known for assassinating Swiss branch leader of the German NSDAP Wilhelm Gustloff in 1936 in Davos, Switzerland
Gustloff and .
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.
Februar 1936: das Attentat auf Wilhelm Gustloff ; in: Roland Aergerter ( Hrsg.
** 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.
Thousands lost their lives during the sinkings by Soviet submarine of the refugee ships Wilhelm Gustloff, the Goya, and the General von Steuben.
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.
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.
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Lewis was a man who had made a full-time job of cow stealing.
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The cap was stuck and made a thin rusty squeaking as he applied pressure.
When he came back to the schoolhouse, his mind was made up.
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