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Franz Stangl: Nazi Commandant of Two Holocaust Death Camps Known as the “White Death”
Franz Stangl was a Nazi camp commandant who played a central role in the Holocaust at Sobibor and Treblinka during World War II. Born on March 26, 1908, in Austria-Hungary, he began his career in law enforcement before joining the Austrian Nazi Party in 1931. After the Anschluss in 1938, he formally joined the SS and soon became a key figure in the T4 Euthanasia Program, helping organize the mass murder of people with disabilities at Hartheim.
In April 1942, Heinrich Himmler appointed him the first commandant of Sobibor extermination camp, where over 100,000 Jews were murdered under his…
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