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David Frankfurter to Become Farmer in South America, Family Murdered by Germans

May 20, 1945
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David Frankfurter, who was pardoned yesterday after serving nine years for the assassination of Swiss Naxi leader Wilhelm Gustloff, is planning to go to South America and become a farmer, it was learned today. Frankfurter was a medical student at the time he shot Gustloff.

His family in Yugoslavia, consisting of his father, a rabbi, and his brother, a doctor, are believed to have been murdered by the Germans.

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