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1936 Wilhelm Gustloff assassination...
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1936 Wilhelm Gustloff assassination...

Item # 728619 ·
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, February 12, 1936

* Wilhelm Gustloff funeral
* Adolph Hitler attends w/ others 
* Becomes a propaganda martyr
* Nazi leader in Switzerland
* Croatian Jewish student 

Near the top of page 2 is a one column heading: "SWISS NAZI HEAD SLAIN BY STUDENT" with subhead. (see) First report coverage on the assassination of Wilhelm Gustloff, Nazi leader in Switzerland, by David Frankfueter, a Croatian Jewish student.
Other news, sports and advertisements of the day. Complete in 18 pages, binding slits and a little wear along the spine, otherwise nice.

wikipedia notes: The February 12, 1936, state funeral of Wilhelm Gustloff in Schwerin, Germany—organized eight days after his assassination by Jewish medical student David Frankfurter in Davos, Switzerland—served as a pivotal Nazi propaganda spectacle designed to solidify public support and escalate state-sanctioned anti-Semitism. Attended by Adolf Hitler and his cabinet, the event transformed the head of the party's Swiss branch into an idealized "blood martyr" (Blutzeuge), framing the politically motivated killing as part of an existential conflict against a global Jewish conspiracy. Hitler used his live-broadcast eulogy to rally the German public, manipulate domestic anger, and lay the ideological foundation for aggressive anti-Jewish measures leading up to the 1936 Berlin Olympics and beyond. Furthermore, the immense state ritual established Gustloff's enduring role in regime mythology, leading directly to the naming of the ocean liner MV Wilhelm Gustloff—the vessel whose 1945 torpedoing would become the deadliest maritime tragedy in human history.
Category: The 20th Century
Price
$48
100% Authentic: Original printing, never a reproduction.