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 Sobibor  Treblinka Franz Paul Stangl

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 Death of was born in Altmunster, on 26 March 1908, the son of a night-watchman who had once Globocknik served in the Habsburg Dragoons.  Hermann Höfle  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 . 

 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  prisoners from concentration camps were transferred for liquidation. A -R Articles In March 1942, after being sent to , then , 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 were killed.

 Train Transport Statements Following his arrival at Treblinka, the largest of the three “Aktion Reinhard” camps in occupied , 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 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 to help organise the  Court Interrogation campaign against the Yugoslav partisans.  Malagon Statement  Modern Photos His next assignment was in 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- 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 and transferred to Modern Research an open, civilian prison in 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, , 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 , Stangl was arrested in Brazil on 28 February 1967. After extradition to 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.

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shortly before his death

Sources:

Who’s Who in by Robert S Wistrich published by Routledge, London and New York 1995. NARA PRO

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