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Wilhelm Gustloff (January 30, 1895-February 4, 1936) was the
German leader of the Swiss Nazi party.
He was responsible for the widespread distribution of the anti-Semitic
"Protocols of the Elders of Zion".
Gustloff was shot in 1936 by David Frankfurter, a Jewish student
who had been monitoring his activities. He was born in Schwerin in Mecklenburg and had a state funeral in Schwerin in the
presence of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels, the Hitleryouth had to line the street through which the coutege passed. See Also:
KdF Ship Wilhelm Gustloff This episode is also
the subject of a recent novel by the German writer Gunter Grass called in German Im Krebsgang,
translated as Crabwalk.
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