White Death of Sobibor and Treblinka: Franz Stangl
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Franz Stangl was no sadistic brute screaming in rage or beating victims with his fists. He was worse. A cold, disciplined administrator who treated mass murder as an exercise in efficiency. After joining the SS, he became a key figure in the Nazi T4 euthanasia program before being appointed the first commandant of the Sobibor extermination camp and later taking over Treblinka—where up to 700,000 Jews were murdered. Known to prisoners as “White Death”, he personally oversaw industrialized killing while claiming he was simply "doing his duty." After the war he escaped justice through the Catholic ratlines to Syria and Brazil, before finally being hunted down by Simon Wiesenthal. Stangl was convicted in 1970 for his role in the deaths of hundreds of thousands, yet he chillingly insisted: “My conscience is clear.” This is the story of one of the most deadly men of the Holocaust.
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