Counsel for David Frankfurter, Jewish medical student who in September will stand trial for the assassination of the Swiss Nazi agent Wilhelm Gustloff, announced today that their investigation into the case has been completed with the exception of two points.
One of the phases still to be thoroughly investigated by the attorneys, it was announced, is Frankfurter’s mental state. Magistrate Dedonal, who is supervising the preliminaries of the trial, has authorized Professor Joerger of the Realta Asylum to keep Frankfurter under observation.
The magistrate, it was stated, four months ago requested the anti-Semitic weekly Judenkenner of Berlin and the Nazi news service Weltdienst to submit proofs of the fantastic stories they spread about Frankfurter, but to date has received no reply.
Frankfurter killed Gustloff Feb. 4, explaining his act later as a protest against Hitler’s persecution of the Jews. His defense has been undertaken by the noted Zurich lawyer, Dr. Eugen Curti, and Jerome Devries of Amsterdam.
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