Franz Stangl

Quotes

• “My guilt is that I am still here...I should have died. That is my guilt.”
• “I rarely saw them as individuals. It was always a huge mass...they were naked, packed together, running, being driven with whips.”
• “No, no, no. This was the system. Wirth had invented it. It worked. And because it worked, it was irreversible.”
• “Cargo. They were cargo. I think it started the day I first saw the Totenlager in Treblinka. I remember Wirth standing there, next to the pits full of blue-black corpses. It had nothing to do with humanity-it couldn't have; it was a mass-a mass of rotting flesh. Wirth said, 'What shall we do with this garbage?' I think unconsciously that started me thinking of them as cargo.”
• “He was a Dragoner (one of the imperial elite regiments). Our lives were run on regimental lines. I was scared to death of him.”
• “My conscience is clear. I was simply doing my duty...”

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Key facts

Born

Franz Paul Stangl , ( 1908-03-26 ) 26 March 1908, Altmünster , Austria-Hungary

Died

28 June 1971 (1971-06-28) (aged 63), Düsseldorf , West Germany

Allegiance

Nazi Germany

Branch

Schutzstaffel

Service years

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

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