A committee for the defense of David Frankfurter, confessed slayer of Wilhelm Gustloff, Nazi leader, in Switzerland, is being formed by the League to Combat Anti-Semitism, it was disclosed today.
Frankfurter, 26, Yugoslavian Jewish medical student, will go on trial in the town of Chur, canton of Grisons, Switzerland, in about three months.
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