Nazi newspapers, commenting on the forthcoming trial of David Frankfurter, Yugoslavian Jewish medical student, for the assassination of Wilhelm Gustloff, Swiss Nazi leader, charged today that the verdict was already prejudiced by the prohibition of Nazi organizations in Switzerland.
The trial, which is scheduled to open in Chur, Canton Grisons, in October, will be converted by “international Jewry” into a trial of Germany, newspapers declared.
“It is the duty of every German to make clear to the Swiss people that it is beneath their dignity to permit themselves to be misled by Swiss and by alien Jews against neighboring Germany,” said one paper.
The Westdeutscher Beobachter, in a special article, reported that the noted lawyer, Maitre Morofiagerri, had volunteered to defend Frankfurter. The paper described him as “a Paris Jew who accused Air Minister Hermann Goering of setting the Reichstag fire.”
Frankfurter, who shot Gustloff last February in a hotel in Davos, Switzerland, in what he said was meant as a blow against the Nazi Government, is charged with premeditated murder.
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