Wilhelm Gustloff (January 30, 1895-February 4, 1936) was the German leader of the Swiss Nazi party. He was responsible for the widespread distribution of the anti-Semitic "Protocols of the Elders of Zion". Gustloff was shot in 1936 by David Frankfurter, a Jewish student who had been monitoring his activities. He was born in Schwerin in Mecklenburg and had a state funeral in Schwerin in the presence of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels. The Hitlerjugend members had to line the street through which the cortege passed. January 30 is the 30th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1895 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... February 4 is the 35th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1936 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Nazi party used a right-facing swastika as their symbol and the red and black colors were said to represent Blut und Boden (blood and soil). ... The Eternal Jew: 1937 German poster. ... The Protocols of the (Learned) Elders of Zion is a fraudulent document purporting to describe a plan to achieve Jewish global domination. ... David Frankfurter (July 9, 1909 - July 19, 1982) is best known for assassinating Swiss Nazi leader Wilhelm Gustloff in 1936. ... Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889–April 30, 1945) was the Führer und Reichskanzler (Leader and Imperial chancellor) of Germany from 1933 to his death. ... Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels (October 29, 1897 – May 1, 1945) was Adolf Hitlers Propaganda Minister (see Propagandaministerium) in Nazi Germany. ... The German Nazi party established the Hitler Youth (in German: Hitler-Jugend or HJ) in 1926. ...

This episode is an element of the novel Crabwalk (in German: Im Krebsgang) by the German writer Günter Grass with the plot based the fate of KdF Ship Wilhelm Gustloff. Im Krebsgang (Crabwalk) book cover The German novel Im Krebsgang (2002) (English translation: Crabwalk), by Danzig-born German author Günter Grass (who had earlier received the 2000 Nobel Prize for Literature). ... Günter Grass Günter Wilhelm Grass, Nobel Prize-winning German author, was born in Free City of Danzig (now GdaÅ„sk, Poland) on October 16, 1927. ... The Wilhelm Gustloff was a ship built by Blohm + Voss and named after the assassinated leader of the Swiss Nazi party, Wilhelm Gustloff. ...