Trial of David Frankfurter Prozess David Frankfurter Bestand
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Archival History
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Archiv für Zeitgeschichte - Archivleitung
Acquisition
Source of acquisition is the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Archiv für Zeitgeschichte (AfZ), Switzerland. The records in this collection were originally part of the the Schweizer Israelitischer Gemeindebund Archiv (SIG), and later in 1994 acquired by the Archiv für Zeitgeschichte (AfZ). Over the years, additional materials were added to the collection. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s International Archives Project in Oct. 2012.
Scope and Content
Contains records of the trial of David Frankfurter in Chur, Switzerland, 1936. Includes personal documents of Frankfurter, correspondence, press articles, reports and protocols. The Jewish student David Frankfurter, shot to death the German Nazi official, NSDAP state party leader for Switzerland, Wilhelm Gustloff, on February 4, 1936, in Davos in the canton of Grisons, Switzerland. He was sentenced to a long prison term; pardoned in August 1945 and released.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Archiv für Zeitgeschichte - Archivleitung
People
- Frankfurter, David, 1909---Trials, litigation, etc.
- Gustloff, Wilhelm, 1895-1936--Assassination.
Subjects
- Nazi propaganda--Switzerland.
- Political crimes and offenses--Switzerland--Davos.
- Trials (Assassination)--Switzerland.
- Trials (Political crimes and offenses)--.Switzerland.
- Jews--Persecutions--Switzerland.
- Switzerland--Foreign relations--Germany.
Genre
- Document
- Press releases.
- Correspondence.
- Reports.
Copies
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