This article is about the deputy commander of Sobibor extermination camp. For other people named Gustav Wagner, see Gustav Wagner (disambiguation).
Gustav Wagner
Birth name
Gustav Franz Wagner
Nickname(s)
The Beast, Wolf (Yiddish: װעלפֿל, Volf)
Born
(1911-07-18)18 July 1911 Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Died
3 October 1980(1980-10-03) (aged 69) São Paulo, Brazil
Allegiance
Nazi Germany
Service/branch
Schutzstaffel
Years of service
late 1930s—1945
Rank
SS-Oberscharführer
Unit
Death's Head Units
Commands held
Sobibor extermination camp
Awards
War Merit Cross 2nd Class With Swords (1942-1943)
Gustav Franz Wagner[1] (18 July 1911 – 3 October 1980) was an Austrian member of the SS with the rank of Staff sergeant (Oberscharführer).[2][3] Wagner was a deputy commander of Sobibor extermination camp in German-occupied Poland, where 200,000-250,000 Jews were murdered in the camp's gas chambers during Operation Reinhard. Due to his brutality, he was known as "The Beast" and "Wolf".[2][4]
^Sobibor - The Forgotten Revolt
^ abKlee, Ernst; Dressen, Willi; Riess, Volker, eds. (1991). The "Good Old Days" – The Holocaust as Seen by its Perpetrators and Bystanders. (trans. by Deborah Burnstone). Konecky & Konecky. p. 302. ISBN 978-1568521336.
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