Franz Stangl - Wikipedia
WEBFranz Paul Stangl (German: [ˈʃtaŋl̩]; 26 March 1908 – 28 June 1971) was an Austrian police officer and commandant of the Nazi extermination camps Sobibor and Treblinka in World War II. [2] Stangl, an employee of the T-4 Euthanasia Program and an SS commander in Nazi Germany , became commandant of the camps during the …
Franz Stangl - Jewish Virtual Library
WEBFranz Stangl, the son of a night-watchman, was born in Altmünster, Austria, on March 26, 1908. After working as a weaver, Stangl joined the Austrian police in 1931 and soon afterwards the then illegal Nazi Party. After Anschluss, Stangl was quickly promoted through the ranks.
Franz Stangl: A Commandant’s View - Facing History and Ourselves
WEBAug 2, 2016 · Scholar James Edward Waller discusses how perpetrators of atrocities dehumanize their victims. In 1971, journalist Gitta Sereny interviewed Franz Stangl, who had been the commandant of the death camp at Sobibór and, later, the camp at Treblinka.
The Amazing Interview That Ended a Nazi Criminal’s Life
WEBAug 13, 2020 · Gitta Sereny interviews Franz Stangl. Photo: Don Honeyman. Source: Facinghistory.org. The Trial. It was West-Germany’s highest-profile trial of a Nazi war criminal. Franz Stangl, former SS...
Holocaust Historical Society - Franz Stangl
WEBFranz Stangl was the only commandant of an extermination camp who was brought to trial. He was tried in the Treblinka Trial in Düsseldorf in 1970 and he was sentenced to life imprisonment. He died in the Remand Prison Düsseldorf on 28 June 1971 of a heart attack.
Franz Stangl - History Learning
WEBFranz Stangl. Franz Stangl was an SS commandant of the Treblinka and Sobibor camps, where he was nicknamed the “White Death”. He supervised the transformation of the camps into places where killing was carried out on a vast scale - he is believed to have overseen the deaths of around 900,000 people. Having joined the Na zi party in 1931 he ...
Franz Stangl | German Nazi officer | Britannica
WEBSobibor. In Sobibor. …commandant of the camp was Franz Stangl, who, like many of his staff of 30 SS (Nazi paramilitary corps) men, was a veteran of the T4 Program to murder the infirm and disabled. They were assisted by 90–120 Ukrainians, former prisoners of war trained by the Germans for their new….
Stangl, Franz | Holocaust Encyclopedia
WEBFranz Stangl (26 March 1908 – 28 June 1971), SS Hauptsturmführer at war’s end, worked various positions within the so-called Euthanasia Program from early 1940 until March 1942. After this, he was transferred to Aktion Reinhardt.
Stangl & the Holocaust - Ethics Unwrapped
WEBFranz Stangl was the most effective Nazi administrator in Poland, killing nearly one million Jews at Treblinka, but he claimed he was simply following orders. All Cases. Stangl & the Holocaust. Download Case Study PDF. Franz Stangl was born in Austria in 1908. From a working class family, Stangl trained as a master weaver.
FRANZ STANGL 63, NAZI CAMP HEAD - The New York Times
WEBJun 29, 1971 · BONN, June 28—Franz Paul Stangl, former commandant of the Nazi extermination camp at Treblinka in Poland, was found dead in his prison cell in Düsseldorf today. Half a year ago; in one of the...
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