Trial of David Frankfurter for the assassination of the Swiss Nazi agent, Wilhelm Gustloff, will be held at the September session of the Grison Cantonal Court, it was stated here today.
Frankfurter, Jewish medical student who said he killed Gustloff Feb. 4 in protest against Hitler’s persecution of the Jews, is reported by the local newspapers to be receiving numerous donations for his defense. He will be defended by the noted Zurich lawyer, Dr. Eugen Curti, who will be assisted by Jerome Devries of Amsterdam.
The youthful assassin is in a depressed condition, the papers report. “He weeps continually,” one paper states, “and everything appears to him as in a dream.”
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