“Imagine If Bavaud Had Got His Shot Off In 1938″: The Swiss Honor Would-Be Assassin Of Rising Young Hitler
“Germany eventually paid reparations to the family of the man who tried to off their head of state.”
The Swiss have honored a heroic student who was executed for trying to kill Hitler. They say they’re sorry they didn’t try to save him. Swissinfo reports, Would-be Hitler Assassin Rehabilitated:
The government has officially rehabilitated the reputation of the young Swiss man executed in Nazi Germany after his failed attempt to kill Adolf Hitler in 1938.
President Pascal Couchepin admitted on Friday that the Swiss government at the time could have done more to defend Maurice Bavaud.
The young theology student was guillotined in a Berlin prison in 1941.
“With hindsight, the then Swiss authorities did too little to intervene on behalf of the condemned person… he deserves our recognition,†Couchepin said.
I’m sorry, back that panzer up a sec, Siegfried … did they just say they “rehabilitated†Maurice?
It will be 70 years on Sunday since the 22-year-old failed in his attempt to shoot Hitler at a rally in Munich. He was arrested and spent 30 months in solitary confinement before being executed.
During his imprisonment, Bavaud was never visited by the Swiss diplomatic representative in Berlin, who called the assassination attempt a “detestable actâ€Â.
I may need to hire some Swiss number crunchers, maybe a fine watchmaking craftsman or some finger-wagging humanitarian to explain to me how this works. The one Swiss citizen to stand up and sacrifice himself against the Nazis … the only one I’ve ever heard of anyway … and he’s the one who needs rehabilitating?
Imagine if Bavaud had got his shot off in 1938. Apparently this courageous, farsighted young man considered Hitler a danger to humanity in general. Continue
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