• Franz Paul Stangl (German: [ˈʃtaŋl̩]; 26 March 1908 – 28 June 1971) was an Austrian police officer and commandant of the Nazi extermination camps Sobibor...
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    Euthanasia Centre. He first served as an assistant supervisor (together with Franz Stangl) under officer Christian Wirth before assuming Wirth's position of chief...
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    chose Franz Stangl, who had been the commandant of the Sobibór extermination camp, to assume command of the camp as Eberl's successor. Stangl had a reputation...
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    worked closely with the Austrian justice ministry to prepare a dossier on Franz Stangl, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1971. In the 1970s and 1980s...
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  • climber Dalene Stangl, American statistician Ernst Stangl (fl. 1970s), Austrian luger Franz Stangl (1908–1971), Austrian-born Nazi SS officer and commandant...
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    this position to aid the escape of wanted Nazi war criminals, including Franz Stangl, commanding officer of Treblinka; Gustav Wagner, commanding officer of...
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  • completed, Wagner became deputy commandant of the camp under Commandant Franz Stangl. His official title was quartermaster-sergeant of the camp. Wagner was...
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    of the thousands of people who had been killed, and was replaced by Franz Stangl, who was previously the commandant of Sobibor extermination camp. Eberl...
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    SS officers responsible for the Aktion T4, including Christian Wirth, Franz Stangl, and Irmfried Eberl, were all given key roles in the implementation of...
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    the camp that day. After the revolt, the camp's commandant Franz Stangl left. Kurt Franz served as his replacement, and he was instructed to dismantle...
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    Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss (also Höß, Hoeß, or Hoess; German: [hœs]; 25 November 1901 – 16 April 1947) was a German SS officer and the commandant of...
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    adaptation of Gitta Sereny's book Into That Darkness, about the life of Franz Stangl, the commandant of the Sobibor and Treblinka extermination camps. Walsh...
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  • convicted in 1968 of killing two children when she herself was a child, and Franz Stangl, the commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp. Born and initially...
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    April 1942, SS-Obersturmführer (First Lieutenant) Franz Stangl was appointed commander of Sobibor. Stangl appointed SS-Oberscharführer Hermann Michel as...
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    Auschwitz; Joseph Kramer, commandant of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp; Franz Stangl, commandant of Sobibor and Treblinka; Alois Brunner, Adolf Eichmann's...
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  • sculptor Franz Joseph Spiegler (1691–1757), German Baroque painter Franz Stangl (1908-1971), Austrian-born Nazi SS concentration camp commandant Franz Stofel...
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    SS-Obersturmführer Franz Stangl, a meticulous organizer who worked to increase the efficiency of the extermination process. Stangl had little interaction...
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  • was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1992 and died in prison in 2004. Franz Stangl, the commandant of the Sobibór and Treblinka extermination camps, was...
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    Third Reich. He frequented the Hartheim killing centre, where Franz Stangl worked. Stangl, who was later the commandant of the Sobibór and Treblinka extermination...
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  • Sereny's Into That Darkness, a biography of the Treblinka commandant Franz Stangl. The Holocaust historian Christopher Browning noted: Many aspects of...
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  • interviews with the former commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp, Franz Stangl, that an organisation called ODESSA had never existed although there...
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    for the whip used by Kurt Bolender in beating the prisoners. Under Franz Stangl's command of the camp, Szmajzner was made foreman in a mechanics workshop...
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    prisoner from Argentina. As a result, in September 1942, camp commandant Franz Stangl ordered the formation of permanent work squads. Over time, the number...
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    war criminals, including SS officer Kurt Franz, and the commandant of Treblinka extermination camp, Franz Stangl. His incriminating evidence against them...
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    including Adolf Hitler, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Franz Stangl, Alois Brunner, Friedrich Rainer, and Odilo Globocnik, as were over 13%...
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  • organising the escape of war criminals such as Franz Stangl, commanding officer of Treblinka. Stangl told Gitta Sereny that he went looking for Hudal...
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    gassing procedures during the Action T4. During this period he worked with Franz Stangl and Christian Wirth. In 1941-42 he was attached to an ambulance unit...
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    while awaiting trial. Franz Schwede was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 1948 and was released in 1956; he died in 1960. Franz Stangl, after being caught...
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    Centre and Hartheim Euthanasia Centre. He came to Treblinka together with Franz Stangl in the first group of German SS. He served there until spring 1943. Bredow...
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    building assignment in Sobibor he was replaced there as commandant by Franz Stangl in April 1942. He then proceeded to Treblinka which copied the design...
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