Davos
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Davos is an Alpine resort town and municipality in the Prättigau/Davos Region in the canton of the Grisons, Switzerland. It has a permanent population of 10,832. Davos is located on the Landwasser riv
Top: View of the Sertig Valley, Middle left: World Economic Forum congress centre, Middle right: Lake Davos, Bottom: View over Davos
Davos c. 1870. Etching by Heinrich Müller
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Davos in Winter, 1923 (Kunstmuseum Basel)
View of Davos from a paraglider, looking southwest
Wilhelm Gustloff
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Wilhelm Gustloff was a German politician and meteorologist who founded the Swiss branch of the Nazi Party/Foreign Organization at Davos in 1932. The NSDAP/AO was formed as the wing of the Nazi Party f
Davos
…NSDAP members as a share of the population. In the many German-led sanatoria and schools, Nazi salutes and flags were de rigueur. Swiss Nazi leader Wilhelm Gustloff's 1936 assassination in Davos led to tensions with Nazi Germany. At the end of the war, Federal Councillor Ernst Nobs described Davos as "more Nazi-infested…
Wilhelm Gustloff