Franz Stangl
Franz Stangl | |
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| Birth name | Franz Paul Stangl |
| Born | 26 March 1908 Altmünster, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 28 June 1971 (aged 63) Düsseldorf, West Germany |
| Allegiance | Nazi Germany |
| Branch | Schutzstaffel |
| Years of service | 1931–1945 |
| Rank | SS-Hauptsturmführer |
| Service number | NSDAP #6,370,447 SS #296,569 |
| Unit | SS-Totenkopfverbände |
| Commands | Sobibor, 28 April 1942 – 30 August 1942 Treblinka, 1 September 1942 – August 1943 |
Franz Paul Stangl (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.
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.