1936, ISBN: 3bf22fe3984afe58887c5415b8f26099

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Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Viking Press], DAVID FRANKFURTER, WILHELM GUSTLOFF, SWITZERLAND -- NAZI PARTY, EDEN AND CEDAR PAUL, EUROPE--NAZISM, JUDAICA, GERMANY--JEWS, History|Europe|G… Mehr…

Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Viking Press], DAVID FRANKFURTER, WILHELM GUSTLOFF, SWITZERLAND -- NAZI PARTY, EDEN AND CEDAR PAUL, EUROPE--NAZISM, JUDAICA, GERMANY--JEWS, History|Europe|Germany|Nazism and Third Reich (1933-1945), Religion|Judaism|General, Condition: Good. Clean, tight, with no tears or dog ears or marks. Bookplate of previous owner pasted onto first free endpaper with short gift inscription with notation of 10-44. The tan soft cover is in good condition with a few minor spots and rough edges but no tears. There is no title on the spine, only on the front cover. Printed notation: "The profits on this publication will be given to a Swiss benevolent institution." Originally published in Amsterdam as Der Mord in Davos, also in 1936. Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul, a very interesting couple who worked together prolifically translating European leftist works. David Frankfurter (1909-1982) assassinated the Swiss branch leader of the German Nazi party in Davos, Switzerland in 1936. The young man had already left Germany in 1934 when Hitler's government banned Jews from German universities. Frankfurter thought that he would be safe from Nazi ideology in neutral Switzerland, but the Nazi movement was gaining ground even there among Germans and German-speaking Swiss. According to the Wikipedia entry: "Having become convinced of the danger posed by the Nazis, Frankfurter kept an eye on Wilhelm Gustloff, head of the Foreign Section of the Nazi Party in Switzerland (NSDAP). "Unable to endure the torrent of insults, humiliations and attacks on the Jewish people, of whom he was very proud, Frankfurter bought a gun in Bern. Frankfurter found Gustloff's address easily, as it was listed in the phonebook, and went to the Gustloff home; Gustloff's wife, Hedwig Gustloff, received him and showed him into the study, asking him to wait since her husband was on the telephone but would be with him presently. When Gustloff, who was in the adjoining room, entered his office where Frankfurter was sitting opposite a picture of Hitler, Frankfurter introduced himself as a Jew and then shot him five times in the head, neck and chest; he left the premises (according to Heinz Schön, while hearing Hedwig Gustloff's cries), went into the next house and asked to use the telephone. He rang the police and confessed to the murder. Immediately he went to the police station and calmly told the police what had happened. The assassination of Gustloff rang out through Europe, thanks to Nazi propaganda directed by Joseph Goebbels. But Adolf Hitler prohibited retaliation against the Jews at the time, fearing an international boycott of the winter and summer Olympics that were due to be held in Germany, through which he wanted to propagandise the size, power and ideology of the Nazi movement on a world stage. Gustloff was made a Blutzeuge/Martyr of the Nazi cause and his assassination later became part of the propaganda serving as pretext for the 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom." Well known for his psychologically based biographies Emil Ludwig wrote THE DAVOS MURDER as a study of Frankfurter's motivations. Ludwig felt that this and other politically motivated murders could be legitimized just as David's struggle with Goliath was justifiable. This book was very timely. The author Emil Ludwig was a very outspoken critic of Hitler and Nazi rule of Germany before others saw the danger of the ideology. The Wikipedia entry indicates: "Ludwig was born in Breslau, now part of Poland. Born into a Jewish family, he was raised as a non-Jew but was not baptized. 'Many persons have become Jews since Hitler," he said. "I have been a Jew since the murder of Walther Rathenau [in 1922], from which date I have emphasized that I am a Jew.' Ludwig studied law but chose writing as a career. At first he wrote plays and novellas, also working as a journalist. In 1906, he moved to Switzerland, but, during World War I, he worked as a foreign correspondent for the Berliner Tageblatt in Vienna and Istanbul. He became a Swiss citizen in 1932, later emigrating to the United States in 1940., Books<