DOCSLIB.ORG

Franz Stangl Page 1 of 2

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Franz Stangl Page 1 of 2 Franz Stangl www.HolocaustResearchProject.org Page 1 of 2 Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team www.HolocaustResearchProject.org Search Home - Holocaust Prelude - Euthanasia - Einsatzgruppen - Aktion Reinhard - Ghettos - Revolt & Resistance Aktion Reinhard Other Camps - Holocaust Economics - The German Occupation - Survivors Stories - Trials - Image Gallery - Appendix A-Z Belzec Sobibor Treblinka Franz Paul Stangl A-R Leadership Odilo Globocknik Death of Franz Stangl was born in Altmunster, Austria on 26 March 1908, the son of a night-watchman who had once Globocknik served in the Habsburg Dragoons. Hermann Höfle Christian Wirth After training as a master- weaver Stangl joined the Austrian police force in 1931, graduating two years later. Wirth "Timeline" In 1935 he was transferred to the political division of the criminal investigation department in the small Austrian town of Wels. Hans Frank Georg Wippern A year later he became an illegal member of the Nazi Party, Franz Stangl and in November 1940 he became the Police Superintendent Georg Michalsen of the notorious Euthanasia Institute at Scloss Hartheim, where the mentally and physically handicapped and also political Ernst Lerch prisoners from concentration camps were transferred for liquidation. A -R Articles In March 1942, after being sent to Berlin, then Lublin, Stangl A-R Staff reported to Odilo Globocnik, his fellow Austrian SS- Perpetrators Speak Brigadefuhrer, the head of “Aktion Reinhard.” Work Kommando's Franz Stangl Stangl was appointed commandant of the Sobibor death The Gas Chambers at Belzec, Sobibor camp, which became operational in May 1942, during Stangl’s period as “Kommandant” , and Treblinka which lasted until September 1942 when he was transferred to Treblinka, approximately Stangl (seated center) entertains at Sobibor Himmler & A-R 100,000 Jews were killed. Train Transport Statements Following his arrival at Treblinka, the largest of the three “Aktion Reinhard” camps in occupied Poland, Stangl proved himself a highly efficient and dedicated organiser of mass murder, even receiving an official commendation as the “best camp commander” in Poland. A-R Staff Photos Recuperation from Always impeccably dressed, he attended the unloading of transports dressed in white riding clothes, soft- Mass Murder voiced, polite and friendly, Stangl was no sadist, but took pride and pleasure in his work, running the death AR Conclusion camp like clockwork. Post War Trials He came to regard his victims as “cargo to be despatched”, A-R Labour Camps recalling in an interview at the end of his life with the journalist Gitta Sereny that he rarely saw them as Budzyn individuals – “it was always a huge mass… they were Leo Freitag naked, packed together, running, being driven with whips.” Statement Lublin Airfield Stangl claimed that his dedication had nothing to do with Camp ideology or hatred of Jews. “They were so weak- they Modern Photos allowed everything to happen – to be done to them. They were people with whom there was no common ground, no possibility of communication- that is how contempt is born. I Trawniki could never understand how they could just give in as they (middle) Trawniki Staff Stangl at Treblinka did.” Stangl extradited from Brazil in 1970 Trawniki Images Soon after the revolt in Treblinka on the 2 August 1943 – SS –Hauptsturmfuhrer Stangl was transferred to Trieste to help organise the Court Interrogation campaign against the Yugoslav partisans. Malagon Statement Modern Photos His next assignment was in Italy as a special supply officer to the Einsatz- Poll, a strategic construction project in the Po Valley, involving some half a million Italian workers under German command. Action Erntefest Jakob Sporrenberg In 1945 Stangl was captured by the Americans and interned as a member of the SS who had been involved in anti-partisan activities in Yugoslavia and Italy, whilst his earlier service in Poland Sporrenberg # 2 was not known at the time. Orders He was handed over to the Austrians and transferred to Modern Research an open, civilian prison in Linz in late 1947, in connection with his involvement in the Euthanasia programme at BełŜec Excavation Treblinka map used at Stangl's trial Schloss Hartheim. Stangl simply walked out of the prison and managed to escape to Italy with his Austrian ex-collegue at Sobibor death camp, Gustav Wagner, with the help of Bishop Hudal and his Vatican network. Stangl escaped via Rome on a Red Cross passport with an entrance visa for Syria. In 1948 he arrived in Damascus where he worked for three years as a mechanical engineer in a textile mill and was joined by his wife and family. Stangl (center) in Trieste In 1951 the Stangl’s emigrated to Brazil where he was given an engineering job and after 1959 he worked at a Volkswagen factory, still using his own name. Only in 1961 did his name appear on the official Austrian list of “Wanted Criminals” , though for years his responsibility in the deaths of hundreds of thousands Jewish men, women and children had been known to the Austrian authorities. Tracked down by Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal, Stangl was arrested in Brazil on 28 February 1967. After extradition to West Germany he was tried for co-responsibility in the mass murder of 900,000 Jews at Treblinka and sentenced to life imprisonment on 22 October 1970. Stangl in Dusseldorf prison He died of heart failure in Dusseldorf prison on 28 June 1971. http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/ar/stangl.html 5/8/2012 Franz Stangl www.HolocaustResearchProject.org Page 2 of 2 shortly before his death Sources: Who’s Who in Nazi Germany by Robert S Wistrich published by Routledge, London and New York 1995. NARA PRO Copyright Chris Webb & Carmelo Lisciotto H.E.A.R.T 2007 Remember Me | Special Thanks | Holocaust Links | Publications © 2010 H.E.A.R.T All Rights Reserved. http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/ar/stangl.html 5/8/2012.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • "Justiz Und Erinnerung" 4 / Mai 2001
    Verein Verein zur Erforschung zur Förderung nationalsozialistischer justizgeschichtlicher Gewaltverbrechen und Forschungen ihrer Aufarbeitung A-1013 Wien, Pf. 298 A-1013 Wien, Pf. 298 Tel. 270 68 99, Fax 317 21 12 Tel. 315 4949, Fax 317 21 12 E-Mail: [email protected] oder E-Mail: [email protected] [email protected] Bankverbindung: Bank Austria 660 502 303 Bankverbindung: Bank Austria 660 501 909 JUSTIZ UND ERINNERUNG Hrsg. v. Verein zur Förderung justizgeschichtlicher Forschungen und Verein zur Erforschung nationalsozialistischer Gewaltverbrechen und ihrer Aufarbeitung vormals »Rundbrief« Nr. 4 / Mai 2001 Beiträge Gedenken an die Opfer von Engerau Claudia Kuretsidis-Haider Claudia Kuretsidis-Haider Am 25. Mai 1945 erging bei der Polizei im 3. Wiener Gedenken an die Opfer von Engerau .......... 1 Gemeindebezirk nachstehende »Anzeige gegen An- gehörige der SA im Judenlager Engerau«: Peter Gstettner »Als die SA das Judenlager in Engerau errich- Das KZ in der Lendorfer Kaserne tete, wurden ca. 2000 Juden (ungarische) in vor den Toren der Stadt Klagenfurt. das genannte Lager aufgenommen. An den Ju- Ein Vorschlag zur Geschichts- den wurden folgende Gewalttaten verübt: An- aufarbeitung und Erinnerung ................ 3 lässlich des Abmarsches Ende April 1945 aus dem Lager in der Richtung nach Deutsch Al- tenburg wurde ich als Wegführer bestimmt und Meinhard Brunner ging an der Spitze des Zuges. Hinter mir fand Ermittlungs- und Prozessakten eine wüste Schießerei statt bei der 102 Juden britischer Militärgerichte in Österreich den Tod fanden.« im Public Record Office ................... 12 Ein weiterer SA-Mann präzisierte diese Angaben: »Vom Ortskommandanten erhielt ich den Be- Sabine Loitfellner fehl alle Juden welche den Marsch nicht Arisierungen während der NS-Zeit durchhalten zu erschießen.
    [Show full text]
  • 3868546065 Lp.Pdf
    Studien zur Gewaltgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts Ausgewählt von Jörg Baberowski, Bernd Greiner und Michael Wildt Das 20. Jahrhundert gilt als das Jahrhundert des Genozids, der Lager, des Totalen Krieges, des Totalitarismus und Ter- rorismus, von Flucht, Vertreibung und Staatsterror – ge- rade weil sie im Einzelnen allesamt zutreffen, hinterlassen diese Charakterisierungen in ihrer Summe eine eigentüm- liche Ratlosigkeit. Zumindest spiegeln sie eine nachhaltige Desillusionierung. Die Vorstellung, Gewalt einhegen, be- grenzen und letztlich überwinden zu können, ist der Ein- sicht gewichen, dass alles möglich ist, jederzeit und an jedem Ort der Welt. Und dass selbst Demokratien, die Erben der Aufklärung, vor entgrenzter Gewalt nicht gefeit sind. Das normative und ethische Bemühen, die Gewalt einzugrenzen, mag vor diesem Hintergrund ungenügend und mitunter sogar vergeblich erscheinen. Hinfällig ist es aber keineswegs, es sei denn um den Preis der moralischen Selbstaufgabe. Ausgewählt von drei namhaften Historikern – Jörg Baberowski, Bernd Greiner und Michael Wildt –, präsen- tieren die »Studien zur Gewaltgeschichte des 20. Jahrhun- derts« die Forschungsergebnisse junger Wissenschaftle- rinnen und Wissenschaftler. Die Monografien analysieren am Beispiel von totalitären Systemen wie dem National- sozialismus und Stalinismus, von Diktaturen, Autokratien und nicht zuletzt auch von Demokratien die Dynamik ge- walttätiger Situationen, sie beschreiben das Erbe der Ge- walt und skizzieren mögliche Wege aus der Gewalt. Sara Berger Experten der Vernichtung
    [Show full text]
  • The Bureaucracy of Annihilation
    7 The Bureaucracy of Annihilation RAUL HILBERG We are, all of us who have thought and written about the Holocaust, accustomed to thinking of this event as unique. There is no concept in all history like the Final Solution. There is no precedent for the almost endless march of millions of men, women, and children into gas cham­ bers. The systematization of this destruction process sets it aside from all else that has ever happened. Yet if we examine this event in detail, ob~ serving the progression of small steps day by day, we see much in the destruction of Jewry that is familiar and even commonplace in the con­ text of contemporary institutions and practices. Basically, the Jews were destroyed as a consequence of a multitude of acts performed by a phalanx of functionaries in public offices and private enterprises, and many of 'these measures, taken one by one, tum out to be bureaucratic, embedded ih habit, routine, and tradition. It is almost a case of regarding the whole upheaval in all of its massiveness as something incredible, and then ob­ serving the small components and seeing in them very little that one could not expect in a modem society. One can go further and assert that it is the very mundaneness and ordinariness of these everyday official actions which made the destruction process so crass. Never before had the total experience of a modem bureaucracy been applied to such an undertaking. Never before had it produced such a result. 119 RAUL HILBERG The uprooting and annihilation of European Jewry was a multi, pronged operation of a highly decentralized apparatus.
    [Show full text]
  • The Survivor's Hunt for Nazi Fugitives in Brazil: The
    THE SURVIVOR’S HUNT FOR NAZI FUGITIVES IN BRAZIL: THE CASES OF FRANZ STANGL AND GUSTAV WAGNER IN THE CONTEXT OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE by Kyle Leland McLain A thesis submitted to the faculty of The University of North Carolina at Charlotte in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History Charlotte 2016 Approved by: ______________________________ Dr. Heather Perry ______________________________ Dr. Jürgen Buchenau ______________________________ Dr. John Cox ii ©2016 Kyle Leland McLain ALL RIGHTS RESERVED iii ABSTRACT KYLE LELAND MCLAIN. The survivor’s hunt for Nazi fugitives in Brazil: the cases of Franz Stangl and Gustav Wagner in the context of international justice (Under the direction of DR. HEATHER PERRY) On April 23, 1978, Brazilian authorities arrested Gustav Wagner, a former Nazi internationally wanted for his crimes committed during the Holocaust. Despite a confirming witness and petitions from West Germany, Israel, Poland and Austria, the Brazilian Supreme Court blocked Wagner’s extradition and released him in 1979. Earlier in 1967, Brazil extradited Wagner’s former commanding officer, Franz Stangl, who stood trial in West Germany, was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. These two particular cases present a paradox in the international hunt to bring Nazi war criminals to justice. They both had almost identical experiences during the war and their escape, yet opposite outcomes once arrested. Trials against war criminals, particularly in West Germany, yielded some successes, but many resulted in acquittals or light sentences. Some Jewish survivors sought extrajudicial means to see that Holocaust perpetrators received their due justice. Some resorted to violence, such as vigilante justice carried out by “Jewish vengeance squads.” In other cases, private survivor and Jewish organizations collaborated to acquire information, lobby diplomatic representatives and draw public attention to the fact that many Nazi war criminals were still at large.
    [Show full text]
  • The Stangl Case: Perceptions and Memories of Nazi-Perpetrators and Jewish Survivors of the Holocaust
    $&7$+,675,$( received: 2004-04-02 UDC 343.337-058.55"1940/1971" THE STANGL CASE: PERCEPTIONS AND MEMORIES OF NAZI-PERPETRATORS AND JEWISH SURVIVORS OF THE HOLOCAUST Karl STUHLPFARRER Universität Klagenfurt, Institut für Geschichte, Abt.f. Zeitgeschichte, A-9020 Klagenfurt, Universitätsstraße 65-67 e-mail: [email protected] ABSTRACT The article discusses three major problems in the legal proceedings against Holocaust perpetrators after the destruction of the Nazi system in Europe: firstly the long period after the first major trials against them in Nuremberg in 1946 and the following years; secondly the effects of an over-twenty-year-long interruption of public discussions, self-victimizing in legal proceedings in Germany (the banished Germans) and Austria (as a whole), the strategies for denial on the one hand and for remembering as well as remembrance on the other hand; thirdly the influence of per- sonal interests and personal experiences of judges, advocates and juries in proceed- ings with interrogations, and finally the passing of judgment on the perpetrators to give full or at least partial satisfaction to the surviving victims. Key words: Nazism, war crimes, Holocaust, death camps, post-war trials, Franz Stangl, Austria IL CASO STANGL: PERCEZIONI E MEMORIE DEI CRIMINALI NAZISTI E DEGLI EBREI SOPRAVVISSUTI ALL'OLOCAUSTO SINTESI La relazione riguarda tre problemi fondamentali nei procedimenti contro i re- sponsabili dell'Olocausto dopo la caduta del nazismo in Europa: i processi ai crimi- nali di guerra nazisti, a partire
    [Show full text]
  • An Organizational Analysis of the Nazi Concentration Camps
    Chaos, Coercion, and Organized Resistance; An Organizational Analysis of the Nazi Concentration Camps DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University By Thomas Vernon Maher Graduate Program in Sociology The Ohio State University 2013 Dissertation Committee: Dr. J. Craig Jenkins, Co-Advisor Dr. Vincent Roscigno, Co-Advisor Dr. Andrew W. Martin Copyright by Thomas V. Maher 2013 Abstract Research on organizations and bureaucracy has focused extensively on issues of efficiency and economic production, but has had surprisingly little to say about power and chaos (see Perrow 1985; Clegg, Courpasson, and Phillips 2006), particularly in regard to decoupling, bureaucracy, or organized resistance. This dissertation adds to our understanding of power and resistance in coercive organizations by conducting an analysis of the Nazi concentration camp system and nineteen concentration camps within it. The concentration camps were highly repressive organizations, but, the fact that they behaved in familiar bureaucratic ways (Bauman 1989; Hilberg 2001) raises several questions; what were the bureaucratic rules and regulations of the camps, and why did they descend into chaos? How did power and coercion vary across camps? Finally, how did varying organizational, cultural and demographic factors link together to enable or deter resistance in the camps? In order address these questions, I draw on data collected from several sources including the Nuremberg trials, published and unpublished prisoner diaries, memoirs, and testimonies, as well as secondary material on the structure of the camp system, individual camp histories, and the resistance organizations within them. My primary sources of data are 249 Holocaust testimonies collected from three archives and content coded based on eight broad categories [arrival, labor, structure, guards, rules, abuse, culture, and resistance].
    [Show full text]
  • Dr. Irmfried Eberl (1910–1948): Mass Murdering MD Rael D
    PERSPECTIVE IMAJ • VOL 11 • AprIL 2009 Dr. Irmfried Eberl (1910–1948): Mass Murdering MD Rael D. Strous MD Beer Yaakov Mental Health Center, Beer Yaakov, and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel Irmfried Georg Rolf Eber was born on 8 September 1910 ABSTRACT: There are isolated cases of physicians who murdered their in Bregenz, Austria. His parents were adherents to the racist patients. However, never had a single physician personally theories of Georg Ritter von Schonerer, leader of the German supervised the mass murder of hundreds of thousands of nationalist movement in Austria who even merited a mention individuals, until Dr. Irmfried Eberl. Commander of the Nazi by Hitler in Mein Kampf. Irmfried had two older brothers, death camp Treblinka, he killed both the ill and those he who were enthusiastic supporters of the National Socialist considered "a disease to his nation." At age 32 Dr. Eberl German Workers Party (NSDAP) [1]. established Treblinka, where he was responsible for the In 1928 Eberl began his medical studies in Innsbruck and killing of approximately 280,000 individuals within a few joined the NSDAP in December 1931. He was not a gifted weeks. The position of camp commandant was earned student and had to repeat his final medical examination. following his success as head of two psychiatric hospitals Finally, in 1935, he graduated as a physician and left for in Germany where he coordinated the murder of thousands of mentally ill Jews and non-Jews within the context of the Germany a year later where he served as head of public health euthanasia program.
    [Show full text]
  • Steinerne Ränder Gesellschaftlicher Umbrüche. Grabsteine Und Todeszeichen in Der Bukowina Zwischen 1900 Und 1941
    Katharina Haberkorn Steinerne Ränder gesellschaftlicher Umbrüche. Grabsteine und Todeszeichen in der Bukowina zwischen 1900 und 1941. Dissertation 2017 Andrássy Universität Budapest Interdisziplinäre Doktorschule Leiterin der Doktorschule: Prof. Dr. Ellen Bos Autorin: Katharina Haberkorn Titel: Steinerne Ränder gesellschaftlicher Umbrüche. Grabsteine und Todeszeichen in der Bukowina zwischen 1900 und 1941. Betreuer: Prof. Dr. Dieter Anton Binder Disputationskommission: Prof. Dr. István Fehér PD Dr. Heidemarie Uhl Jun.-Prof. Dr. Maren Röger Prof. Dr. Ibolya Murber Dr. Richard Lein Dr. Henriett Kovács Eingereicht am 25.08.2017 INHALT Vorwort ..................................................................................................................................... i Rose Ausländer .................................................................................................................. i 1 Einleitung .......................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Einführung und Fragestellungen .............................................................................. 1 1.1.1 Zugang und Struktur ............................................................................................. 5 1.1.2 Todeszeichen - Steinerne Ränder ........................................................................ 7 1.2 Forschungsstand .................................................................................................... 13 1.2.1 In Teilen erleuchtet ...........................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • Reichskommissariat Ostland from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
    Create account Log in Article Talk Read Edit View history Reichskommissariat Ostland From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "Ostland" redirects here. For the province of the Empire in Warhammer 40,000, see Ostland (Warhammer). Navigation Reichskommissariat Ostland (RKO) was the civilian occupation regime established by Main page Germany in the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania), the north-eastern part of Reichskommissariat Ostland Contents Poland and the west part of the Belarusian SSR during World War II. It was also known Reichskommissariat of Germany Featured content [1] initially as Reichskommissariat Baltenland ("Baltic Land"). The political organization Current events ← → for this territory—after an initial period of military administration before its establishment— 1941–1945 Random article was that of a German civilian administration, nominally under the authority of the Reich Donate to Wikipedia Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories (German: Reichsministerium für die besetzten Ostgebiete) led by Nazi ideologist Alfred Rosenberg, but was in reality Interaction controlled by the Nazi official Hinrich Lohse, its appointed Reichskommissar. Help The main political objective, which the ministry laid out in the framework of National Flag Emblem About Wikipedia Socialist policies for the east established by Adolf Hitler, were the complete annihilation Community portal of the Jewish population and the settlement of ethnic Germans along with the expulsion or Recent changes Germanization of parts of the native population
    [Show full text]
  • Der Österreichische Opfermythos – Die Lebenslüge Der Zweiten Republik
    Opfermythos Der österreichische Opfermythos – die Lebenslüge der Zweiten Republik Opfermythos Die Entwicklung des Opfermythos Die Gründungsdokumente Die kurze Phase der Instrumentalisierung des Widerstandes Integration und Verdrängen Etablierung einer Koalitionsgeschichtsschreibung Auf einmal soll alles anders (gewesen) sein Das Eingeständnis... Opfermythos Die Entwicklung des Opfermythos Die Gründungsdokumente Die kurze Phase der Instrumentalisierung des Widerstandes Integration und Verdrängen Etablierung einer Koalitionsgeschichtsschreibung Auf einmal soll alles anders (gewesen) sein Das Eingeständnis... Opfermythos Opfermythos Opfermythos Opfermythos Die Entwicklung des Opfermythos Die Gründungsdokumente Die kurze Phase der Instrumentalisierung des Widerstandes Integration und Verdrängen Etablierung einer Koalitionsgeschichtsschreibung Auf einmal soll alles anders (gewesen) sein Das Eingeständnis... Opfermythos Opfermythos Die Entwicklung des Opfermythos Die Gründungsdokumente Die kurze Phase der Instrumentalisierung des Widerstandes Integration und Verdrängen Etablierung einer Koalitionsgeschichtsschreibung Auf einmal soll alles anders (gewesen) sein Das Eingeständnis... Opfermythos Die Entwicklung des Opfermythos Die Gründungsdokumente Die kurze Phase der Instrumentalisierung des Widerstandes Integration und Verdrängen Externalisierung Dämonisierung Tabuisierung Etablierung einer Koalitionsgeschichtsschreibung Auf einmal soll alles anders (gewesen) sein Das Eingeständnis... Opfermythos Opfermythos Alois Brunner aus Deutsch Kaltenbrunn
    [Show full text]
  • Interview with Franz Stangl
    INTERVIEW WITH FRANZ STANGL About Franz Stangl Born in Austria in 1908, Franz Stangl joined the Austrian police in 1931 and became a criminal investigations officer in the political division. In 1940, Stangl joined the Euthanasia Program at its Hartheim castle institute—one of six centers where people with mental and physical disabilities and other “asocial” Germans were killed. In March 1942, Stangl became commandant of the Sobibor extermination camp in Poland. Later that year he became commandant of Treblinka where he was responsible for the deaths of 870,000 Jews. After the prisoner revolt in Treblinka in September 1943, Stangl and his staff were transferred to Franz Stangl, Yad Vashem Trieste, Italy to organize anti-partisan actions. He also spent time at the San Photo Archive (5318/89) Sabba concentration camp. After the war Stangl returned to Austria, where he was arrested by the Americans for being an SS member (they did not know that he had participated in the extermination of Jews). However, Stangl was found out when the Americans began investigating the Euthanasia Program. About to be L5 charged in May 1948, Stangl escaped to Rome, Syria, and eventually Brazil where he and his family lived under their own names until discovered in 1967. Stangl was tried in Germany and sentenced to life in prison, where he died in 1971. Interview While in prison Stangl was interviewed by Gitta Sereny, a British journalist. The interviews were published in a book entitled Into That Darkness. The following is an excerpt from one of their discussions in prison. Q: Would it be true to say that you finally felt they weren’t really human beings? A: When I was on a trip once, years later in Brazil… my train stopped next to a slaughterhouse.
    [Show full text]
  • Institute of National Remembrance
    Institute of National Remembrance https://ipn.gov.pl/en/news/341,Discontinuance-of-the-investigation-regarding-the-Nazi-crimes-in-the-e uthanasia-.html 2021-10-01, 06:24 02.12.2009 Discontinuance of the investigation regarding the Nazi crimes in the euthanasia center in the Hartheim Castle Szczecin, December 2, 2009 Branch Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation in Szczecin announces that due to the decision of December 2, 2009, the investigation S 55/05/Zn has been discontinued. The investigation concerns the crimes carried out by officers of the Nazi Third Reich in the euthanasia center located in Castle Hartheim in Alkoven near Linz, Austria. There, from April 2, 1940 until mid- December 1944 no less than 1143 Polish citizens were killed in a gas chamber. This is an offence under Article 1, point 1 of the Decree of August 31, 1944 on the punishment of Fascist and Nazi war criminals guilty of murdering and abusing civilians and prisoners of war. In accordance with the Article 3 of the Act of December 18, 1998 on the Institute of National Remembrance, the proceedings were discontinued against Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Philip Bouhler, Leonardo Conti, Rudolf Lonauer, Georg Renno, Christian Wirth, Franz Stangl, Franz Reichleitner, Gustav Wagner, Kurt Bolender, Hubert Gomerski, Josef Vallaster, Josef Grömer, Anton Streitwieser - on the basis of Article 17 § 1 point 5, due to the death of offenders. Against Karl Brandt, Victor Brack, Anna Griessenberger (Aichinger), Maria Hammelsböck (Auer), Hermina Gruber, Maria Raab (Draxler), Maria Witmann, Margaret Haider, Maria Brandstätter, Helena Hintersteiner, Franc Hödl and Herman Merta, Vincenzo Nohel, Karl Schulz, Erich Wasicky, Gerhard Bohne, Hans Bodo Gorgass, Albert Widmann the investigation has been discontinued on the basis of Article 17 § 1 point 7, due to the fact that the criminal proceedings against the perpetrators have been validly terminated.
    [Show full text]