Chancellor Hitler’s Voelkischer Beobachter today declared that David Frankfurter had acted under the orders of other persons, according to the Havas News Agency.
The newspaper demanded answers to the questions of “who pronounced the sentence of death against Gustloff?” and “who are the persons for whom the assassin Frankfurter acted?”
Dr. Eugen Curti, defense attorney, was asked to state whom the “little tool” Frankfurter took his orders from.
The German press as a whole said it was futile to view the trial as a conflict between Germany and Switzerland or between international Nazism and Jewry. The crime was purely and simply one committed by a Jew against the person of a Nazi leader, it was emphasized.
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