Editing Wilhelm Gustloff (section)

==Life and assassination==

Gustloff was a son of merchant Herrmann Gustloff and his wife.<ref>info from [[Günter Grass]]'s ''[[Crabwalk]]''</ref> After his education, he worked for the Swiss government as a [[meteorologist]], and joined the NSDAP in 1927.<ref name="Bollier 30">Peter Bollier: ''Die NSDAP unter dem Alpenfirn. Geschichte einer existenziellen Herausforderung für Davos, Graubünden und die Schweiz'', Bündner Monatsblatt Verlag Desertina 2016, {{ISBN|978-3-85637-490-7}}, Page 30</ref> He assisted in the distribution of the [[antisemitic]] [[propaganda]] book ''[[The Protocols of the Elders of Zion]]'' (1903). Members of the Swiss Jewish community sued the book's distributor, the Swiss NSDAP/AO, for [[libel]].{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}

Gustloff was shot and killed in [[Davos]] in 1936 by [[David Frankfurter]], a Yugoslav [[Jew]]ish student (from what is now [[Croatia]]), who was incensed by the growth of the NSDAP and resolved to assassinate Gustloff.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=February 1950 |title=I Kill a Nazi Gauleiter: Memoir of a Jewish Assassin |url=https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/david-frankfurter/i-kill-a-nazi-gauleitermemoir-of-a-jewish-assassin/}}</ref> 

Frankfurter found Gustloff's address, which was listed in the phone book. On 4 February, he went to the Gustloff home; Gustloff's wife Hedwig received him and showed him into the study, asking him to wait since her husband was on the telephone.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-02-25 |title=David Frankfurter {{!}} Hrvatski povijesni portal |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130225101215/http://povijest.net/v5/zivotpis/hr-zivotopisi/2007/david-frankfurter/ |access-date=2025-02-04 |website=web.archive.org}}</ref>

When Gustloff, who was in the adjoining room, entered his office where Frankfurter was sitting opposite a picture of [[Adolf Hitler]], the young man pulled out his revolver and shot Gustloff five times: in the head, neck and chest. He left the premises and prepared to commit suicide. However, he was unable to follow through.<ref name=":1" />

Frankfurter surrendered immediately to the [[Swiss police]], confessing "I fired the shots because I am a Jew".<ref>{{cite book|title= German Orientalisms |last=Kontje |first= Todd Curtis |pages =222}}</ref> Unlike [[Maurice Conradi]], who killed [[Vatslav Vorovsky|a Soviet diplomat]] in Lausanne in 1923 with similar political motives, he was convicted and sentenced to 18 years imprisonment.<ref name=":0"/>

He was incarcerated during the war years in a Swiss prison.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/12/andrey-karlov-turkey-1914/511124/|title=Why the Shooting in Ankara Won't Start World War III|last=Frum|first=David|date=December 19, 2016|newspaper=[[The Atlantic]]|language=en-US|author-link=David Frum|access-date=December 20, 2016}}</ref> On May 17, 1945<ref name="JTA1945"/> — shortly after [[V-E Day]] — Frankfurter was pardoned by a Swiss court.<ref name="JTA1945">{{cite news |title=David Frankfurter, Who Killed Swiss Nazi Leader, Pardoned; Served Nine Years|url=http://pdfs.jta.org/1945/1945-05-18_113.pdf |access-date=29 October 2017 |work=JTA Daily News Bulletin|publisher=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |date=18 May 1945 |language=en-us}}</ref>