Franz Stangl Military person

Franz Paul Stangl (March 26, 1908 – June 28, 1971) was an Austrian-born SS commandant of the Sobibór and Treblinka extermination camps during the Operation Reinhard phase of the Holocaust. He was arrested in Brazil in 1967, extradited and tried in West Germany for the mass murder of 900,000 people, and in 1970 was found guilty and sentenced to the maximum penalty, life imprisonment. He died of heart failure six months later.

Personal facts

Birth dateMarch 26, 1908
Birth place
Austria-Hungary , Altmünster
Date of deathJune 28, 1971
Place of death
Düsseldorf , West Germany

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Military person

military branch
Schutzstaffel
military command
Sobibór 28 April 1942 – 30 August 1942
Treblinka 1 September 1942 – August 1943
military unit
SS-Totenkopfverbände
service number
NSDAP #6370447
SS #296569
service start1931
service end1945

Franz Stangl on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ntgT48CY1wwC
  2. http://www.holocaustresearchproject.net/ar/stangl.html