"No, no, no. This was the system. Wirth had invented it. It worked. And because it worked, it was irreversible."
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Franz Stangl
Franz Paul Stangl (March 26, 1908 – June 28, 1971) was an Austrian-born police officer and commandant of the Nazi extermination camps Sobibor and Treblinka. Stangl, an employee of the T-4 Euthanasia Program and an Schutzstaffel (SS) commander in Nazi Germany, became commandant of the camps during the Operation Reinhard phase of the Holocaust. He worked for Volkswagen do Brasil and was arrested in Brazil in 1967, extradited to West Germany and tried for the mass murder of 1 million people. In 197
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