![]() ![]() He moved to Innsbruck in 1930 and applied for an appointment in the Austrian federal police. Concerned that this trade offered few opportunities for advancement – and having observed the poor health of his co-workers – Stangl sought a new career. In his teens, he secured an apprenticeship as a weaver, qualifying as a master weaver in 1927. Stangl completed his public schooling in 1923. To help support his family, Franz learned to play the zither and earned money giving zither lessons. Stangl claimed his father died of malnutrition in 1916. He was the son of a night watchman and had such an emotionally distressing relationship with his father that he was deeply frightened by and hated the sight of the elder Stangl's Habsburg Dragoons uniform. Stangl was born in 1908 in Altmünster, located in the Salzkammergut region of Austria. He died of heart failure six months later. In 1970, he was found guilty and sentenced to the maximum penalty, life imprisonment. He worked for Volkswagen do Brasil and was arrested in Brazil in 1967, extradited to West Germany and tried for the mass murder of one million people. 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. ‘Trottel’ an obese man, nearly as round as he was fat, was still very nimble and firm in the way he walked.Treblinka, 1 September 1942 – August 1943įranz Paul Stangl ( German: 26 March 1908 – 28 June 1971) was an Austrian-born police officer and commandant of the Nazi extermination camps Sobibor and Treblinka. We did that because these were the words he used to call us by. We, the Jews of Camp 1, immediately nicknamed him ‘ Trottel’ – which means idiot, fool. He was now Commander of the Extermination Camp of Sobibor. He ruled the death camp more strictly than Stangl, but was seldom seen in the camp, Stanislaw Smajzner, in his book, ‘ Hell in Sobibor’ described Reichleitner: ‘Not much later, Franz Stangl’s substitute came. After service in the T4 euthanasia institution at Hartheim, in Austria, he was appointed to the post of Commandant at the Sobibor death camp in Poland, replacing Franz Stangl, who had been transferred to Treblinka, to run that death camp in August 1942. He was a member of the Linz Gestapo, with the rank of Kriminalsekretar. Wirth, Reicheitner, Vallaster, at Vallaster's wedding Commandant of Sobibor Death Camp 1942-1943įranz Karl Reichleitner was born on 2 December 1906, in Ried, Austria. Recommended publications Recommended publications.Guest Article - Resistance in Denmark Resistance in Denmark.Testimony by David Wdowinski at the Eichmann Trial.Testimony by Avraham Gordon at the Eichmann Trial.Report on a Duty Journey Through Poland - Franke Gricksch.Lublin Judenrat Meeting - March 31 1942.Izbica - Eyewitness Accounts of Deportations.Eichmann in Hungary - Meeting at Mauthausen.The Extermination of the Jews in Sosnowiec and Bendzin.Auschwitz - Birkenau Gassing Facilities.Pinchas Epstein - Czestochowa to Treblinka.Tadeusz Pankiewicz - Krakow Ghetto Account.Polish Fortnightly Review - Slaughter of the Jews in Poland.Polish Fortnightly Review - The German Rule in Poland.Polish Fortnightly Review - The Real New Order: Terror. ![]() Chaim Rumkowski Speech - Give Me Your Children.Franceska Mann - Act of Resistance in Birkenau.Henje Kozszuchowicz - Surviving the Occupation Years 1939-1944.Ernst Krombach - From the Ruhr to Izbica.HHS members articles HHS members articles. ![]()
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