Franz Stangl

Franz Stangl
Birth nameFranz Paul Stangl
Born(1908-03-26)26 March 1908
Altmünster, Austria-Hungary
(current-day Austria)
Died28 June 1971(1971-06-28) (aged 63)
Düsseldorf, West Germany
(current-day Germany)
AllegianceNazi Germany
Service / branchSchutzstaffel
Years of service1931–1945
RankSS-Hauptsturmführer
Service numberNSDAP #6,370,447
SS #296,569
UnitSS-Totenkopfverbände
CommandsSobibor, 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]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Ounsdale was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Mikaberidze, Alexander (2019). Behind Barbed Wire: An Encyclopedia of Concentration and Prisoner of War Camps. ABC-CLIO. p. 261.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Simon was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Sobibor – The Forgotten Revolt Archived 24 January 2012 at the Wayback Machine