Gustloff was proclaimed a Blutzeuge of the Nazi cause and his murder became part of the propaganda that served as pretext for the 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom.
Ernst Wilhelm Bohle was the first at Gustloff's funeral to recite a few lines in his honour. Gustloff's widow, mother and brother attended the funeral and received personal condolences from Hitler. His coffin, transported on a special train from Davos to Schwerin, made stops in Stuttgart, Würzburg, Erfurt, Halle, Magdeburg and Wittenberg. Thousands of Hitler Youth members lined the route. Gustloff was given a state funeral in his birthplace of Schwerin in Mecklenburg, with Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler, Martin Bormann and Joachim von Ribbentrop in attendance. On - shortly after V-E Day - Frankfurter was pardoned by a Swiss court. He was sentenced to 18 years imprisonment and spent the war in a Swiss prison. įrankfurter surrendered immediately to the Swiss police, confessing "I fired the shots because I am a Jew". Gustloff was shot and killed in Davos in 1936 by David Frankfurter, a Yugoslav Jewish student from what is now Croatia, incensed by the growth of the NSDAP. He assisted in the distribution of the antisemitic propaganda book The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, to the point that members of the Swiss Jewish community sued the book's distributor, the Swiss NSDAP/AO, for libel.
Gustloff (a son of merchant Herrmann Gustloff ), who worked for the Swiss government as a meteorologist, joined the NSDAP in 1927.
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