Franz Stangl
Military Person
1908 – 1971
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Who was Franz Stangl?
Franz Paul Stangl 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.
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- Born
- Mar 26, 1908
Altmünster - Nationality
- Austria
- Died
- Jun 28, 1971
Düsseldorf
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on July 23, 2013
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