Austrian-born war criminal, Nazi officer sentenced to life imprisonment (1908–1971)
Franz Stangl
Birth name
Franz Paul Stangl
Born
(1908-03-26)26 March 1908 Altmünster, Austria-Hungary (current-day Austria)
Died
28 June 1971(1971-06-28) (aged 63) Düsseldorf, West Germany (current-day Germany)
Allegiance
Nazi Germany
Service/branch
Schutzstaffel
Years of service
1931–1945
Rank
SS-Hauptsturmführer
Service number
NSDAP #6,370,447 SS #296,569
Unit
SS-Totenkopfverbände
Commands held
Sobibor, 28 April 1942 – 30 August 1942
Treblinka, 1 September 1942 – August 1943
Franz Paul Stangl[1] (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 Operation Reinhard phase of the Holocaust. After the war he fled to Brazil for 16 years, in those 16 years he worked for Volkswagen do Brasil before he was arrested in 1967, extradited to West Germany and tried there for the mass murder of one million people. In 1970, he was found guilty and sentenced to the maximum penalty, life imprisonment. He died of heart failure six months later.[3][4]
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^Sobibor – The Forgotten Revolt Archived 24 January 2012 at the Wayback Machine
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