Franz Burri, was a supporter of Nazi Germany from an early age and frequently visited the country during the 1930s, his hopes for a career in the SS were dashed when Reinhard Heydrich deemed him unsuitable, Heydrich was a high-ranking German Nazi official during World War II, and a main architect of which event?
Franz Burri Born in Lucerne, to a half-German working-class family, Burri was a supporter of Nazi Germany from an early age and frequently visited the country during the 1930s. He came to full-time activism in 1941 by forming his own "Bund der Schweizer in Grossdeutschland" (League of the Swiss in Greater Germany), calling for a very close relationship between his country and Nazi Germany. Known for his crude language and his fondness for wearing the brown uniform of the Sturmabteilung, his hopes for a career in the SS were dashed when Reinhard Heydrich deemed him unsuitable. Also involved in the larger National Movement of Switzerland, Burri quit this organisation after the rejection of his SS application in 1941 to set up his own "Nationalsozialistischer Schweizerbund" (NSSB), although he moved to Germany full-time soon after this and ran a sister group, the "Nationalsozialistische Bewegung in der Schweiz", from there. Both of the groups were funded directly by Germany.
Rudolf Diels Rudolf Diels (16 December 1900 – 18 November 1957) was a German civil servant and head of the Gestapo in 1933–34. He obtained the rank of SS-"Oberführer" and was a protégé of Hermann Göring.