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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.
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Gustloff and who
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.
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.
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 Swiss
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.
* 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 )
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.
There, among the Germans and German speaking Swiss, the Nazi movement gained ground, led by Wilhelm Gustloff.
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.
* David Frankfurter-Croatian Jew known for assassinating Swiss branch leader of the German NSDAP Wilhelm Gustloff in 1936 in Davos, Switzerland
Gustloff and put
They might have been put aboard the Wilhelm Gustloff which left Gotenhafen ( Gdynia ) on 30 January 1945, and was sunk by a Soviet submarine.
Gustloff and antisemitic
Gustloff was shot and killed in 1936 by David Frankfurter, a Jewish student incensed by Gustloff's antisemitic activism.
Gustloff and members
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.
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.
Gustloff and German
* 1936 – Wilhelm Gustloff, German Nazi party leader ( b. 1895 )
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.
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 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.
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 ".
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 Nazi
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.
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.
The assassination of Gustloff rang out through Europe, thanks to Nazi propaganda directed by Joseph Goebbels.
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.
Gustloff and for
Large ships, such as the Wilhelm Gustloff, were built specifically for KdF cruises.
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.
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.
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.
Februar 1936: das Attentat auf Wilhelm Gustloff ; in: Roland Aergerter ( Hrsg.
** 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.
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.
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He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.
Hague, like all who worked near the pits, was partly deafened from the constant assault against his eardrums.
I worked for my Uncle ( an Uncle by marriage so you will not think this has a mild undercurrent of incest ) who ran one of those antique shops in New Orleans' Vieux Carre, the old French Quarter.
Billy Koch, who had once worked for Wright as a chauffeur, gave a deposition for Miriam's use that he had seen Olgivanna living at Taliesin.
Now and then, the President would call for `` Little Jack, Master of the Hounds '', which was his nickname for a messenger who had worked in the White House since Teddy Roosevelt's administration, and discuss the welfare of some one of the animals.
He worked standing, with his left hand in his pocket as though he were merely stopping for a moment, sketching with the surprised stare of one who was watching another person's hand.
We also worked out logistics for Sunday afternoon swimmers who arrive two hours early with their weekend guests while we are still enjoying an alfresco lunch en famille.
Roleplaying was offered as a solution -- and the procedure worked as follows: all candidates were invited to a hotel conference room, where the president explained the difficulty he had, and how unnecessary it seemed to him to hire people who just did not work out.
-- Held out of Texas Tech's sweat-suits drill Monday at Lubbock was tackle Richard Stafford, who is undergoing treatment for a leg injury suffered in the Raiders' 38-7 loss to Texas A & M Because of its important game with Arkansas coming up Saturday, Baylor worked out in the rain Monday -- mud or no mud.
Kowalski, a roofer who seldom worked last winter, already was in arrears on their recently purchased split-level home when the tragedy staggered him with medical and funeral bills.
We have not the leisure, or the patience, or the skill, to comprehend what was working in the mind and heart of a then recent graduate from the Harvard Divinity School who would muster the audacity to contradict his most formidable instructor, the majesterial Andrews Norton, by saying that, while he believed Jesus `` like other religious teachers '', worked miracles, `` I see not how a miracle proves a doctrine ''.
He was a bright and handsome young man from New York, who worked for the same steel company as John did.
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His father, Julius Mathison Turing ( 1873 – 1947 ), was a member of an old aristocratic family of Scottish descent who worked for the Indian Civil Service ( the ICS ).
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After this success, director Sydney Pollack hired Cuarón to direct an episode of Fallen Angels, a series of neo-noir stories produced for the Showtime premium cable network in 1993 ; other directors who worked on the series included Steven Soderbergh, Jonathan Kaplan, Peter Bogdanovich, and Tom Hanks.
He is joined by producer David Heyman, who Cuarón worked with on Harry Potter.
Had Alexander, who was a strong monarch, lived, things might have worked out differently.
They chose Gaius Iulius Verus Maximinus, a Thracian soldier who had worked his way up through the ranks.
The records of many who worked with Johnson throughout his career corroborate that this was an isolated incident.
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In some ways, Allori is the last of the line of prominent Florentine painters, of generally undiluted Tuscan artistic heritage: Andrea del Sarto worked with Fra Bartolomeo ( as well as Leonardo da Vinci ), Pontormo briefly worked under Andrea, and trained Bronzino, who trained Allori.
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