The brother of David Frankfurter, confessed slayer of Wilhelm Gustloff, Nazi leader, left today for Switzerland.
The frankfurter family is well-known here. The assassin’s father, Dr. Moritz Frankfurter, is a respected rabbi of Vinkovci.
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