His name was Maurice Bavaud, and he was a 22-year-old theology student when he attempted to assassinate Hitler at a Munich rally in 1938. He was eventually executed in Berlin in 1941.
The Swiss government has rehabilitated his memory and acknowledged that, at the time, it should have done more to save him.
Bavaud's 81-year-old brother Adrian has this to say: "Switzerland should be proud of someone like Maurice."
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