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...Realmleader, and only a handful of officials knew his destination. It had not been known that Adolf Hitler would orate over the corpse from Switzerland. In the eyes of bored neutrals, nothing had happened except that the No. I Nazi Agent in the Swiss Republic, little-known Wilhelm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: New Martyr | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

...Berne last week to the Swiss winter sports resort of Davos. He did not go there to ski, and, though Davos boasts a fine meteorological observatory, he was not interested in the weather. After hanging around town for three days, he asked his way to the home of Dr. Wilhelm Gustloff, physicist at the Davos observatory. Bustling Frau Gustloff ushered him into the study. When the Doctor rose to greet him, David Frankfurter whipped out a pistol, sent five bullets crashing into his body. Wilhelm Gustloff died instantly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Jew Kills Nazi | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

Oldest in point of service of all Adolf Hitler's foreign organizers was Wilhelm Gustloff, 41. He was also among the ablest, possibly because he had more than his political beliefs to recommend him to Swiss converts. An able physicist, he went to live in Davos years ago, feeling that the altitude would help his weak lungs. Even before his friend Hitler became Chancellor he began organizing Nazi groups in Switzerland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Jew Kills Nazi | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

...Gazette, not immediately issued last week but finally released, was a new Cabinet decree law fully as basic as anything in the so-called new Constitution. It was signed by Herr Hitler and the War Minister, General Werner von Blomberg. It annuls a regulation which has stood since Kaiser Wilhelm provided on March 19, 1914 that, in principle, the German Army shall not be used for police purposes against German citizens. The new Hitler-Blomberg decree fatefully empowers the Army to take German law & order into its hands, the Realmleader still being supreme commander of the Army, Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: New Constitution & Enigma | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

...relief funds in New York City with a poem composed by chipper, white-bearded Philanthropist August Hecksher, 87. Excerpt: The stars, the stars shine brighter, Search thine immortal soul, Thy heart, thy heart beats lighter, What first we need is - COAL. In the weekly newspaper of Doom, The Netherlands, Wilhelm von Hohenzollern inserted an advertisement thanking the world Press for its interest in his 77th birthday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 10, 1936 | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

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