![]() ![]() Behind this name however, the organization that carried out the Nazi euthanasia program was hidden. In 1936 Brigitta – Gitta – was born, Renate followed in 1937 and Isolde in 1944.Īt the end of 1940, Stangl was promoted to Polizeileutnant (chief inspector of police) and transferred to an institution with the innocent name " Gemeinnützige Stiftung für Heil- und Anstaltspflege" (Foundation for the general benefit of health care and institutions). Meanwhile, on October 7, 1935, Stangl had married Theresa (Thea) Eidenböck. He left the Catholic church that same year, as ordered by his superior. Stangl was promoted to Kriminaloberassistent and put to work in the Judenreferat. In January 1939, the political branch of the Kripo was taken over by the Gestapo and transferred to Linz. Whatever, Stangl’s career in the police blossomed. After the war, Stangl gave as his reason that membership of the party after the Anschluß could mean trouble for him as a police officer. in the personnel files of the police to 1936 when the Austrian N.S.D.A.P. By the way, in 1938 he "corrected" his year of entry into the N.S.D.A.P. In March 1938, after the annexation of Austria by the German empire, Stangl joined the N.S.D.A.P., membership number 6,370,447 and became member number 296,569 in the SS. In the fall of 1935, he was transferred to the political branch of the Kripo in Wels, the second largest city in Upper Austria after Linz. in a forest, he was awarded the Adler medal and was allowed to begin training as a detective in the Kriminalpolizei – Kripo or criminal police. When he stumbled upon a secret arms cache of the – illegal- Austrian N.S.D.A.P. After a year’s training he was deployed as junior police man, first in the highway police, later on in the special police force. It is conspicuous how Stangl would later describe his instructors as sadists. He applied for a job in the police, was accepted and followed basic training with the police in Linz at their training center Kaplanhof. ![]() A career in the textile industry seemed a natural choice, regarding his training, but he had to quit in 1931 for reasons of health. His great hobby was playing the cither, he was an active member of the local cither club and gave lessons on the instrument. He went to work as an apprentice in a weaving mill and on completion of his training in 1926, he was the youngest master weaver in Austria. When he was 15 years of age, Stangl had enough of school. Stangl said about his father: " " After his father died in 1916, his mother remarried the year after, a widowed worker in the local steel mill who had two children of his own. His father had served with the dragoons in the Imperial Austro-Hungarian army and ruled the family with an iron military discipline. Thought I would add this as it seems interesting in amongst stories of survivors.Franz Paul Stangl was born Main Altmünster, Austria the second child – he had a sister 10 years his senior – of a night guard. For him we sacrifice ourselves to do this – we obey his orders.” And then he said, too, “Can you imagine what would happen if the Jews ever got hold of us.” ![]() He went on about how awful it was and then he said, in that same maudlin way he had, “But we are doing it for our Fuhrer. Done away with I asked, How? What do you mean?” With gas, he said. What?” “The Jews are being done away with. “Don’t you know what is being done out there?” And then he suddenly said, “Fuchterlich, - dreadful, its just dreadful, you have no idea how dreadful it is.” I asked him, “What is dreadful?” “Don’t you know? he asked. I was pretty fed up, especially as he stank of alcohol and became more and more maudlin.īut I thought, here he is, so lonely – I must at least listen. Ludwig came up to me – I was in the garden too, with the children – and started to tell me about his wife and kids, he went on and on. They brought schnapps and sat in the garden drinking. No, while we were in Chelm, Paul was on leave, it was when we moved to the fish-hatchery that he had to go back to work.Īnd one day while he was at work – I still thought constructing, or working at an army supply base – Ludwig came with several other men, to buy fish or something. “But I was very glad when Paul told me he had arranged for us to move to the fish-hatchery – it would be better for all of us, and I was glad to get the children away from that house. Wife of Franz Paul Stangl – Commandant of Sobibor Death Camp ![]()
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