Franz Stangl (WL)

Franz Stangl is a major antagonist in ''Warring Legends' World War II. ''He was a Austrian-born SS commander of Nazi Germany. He was the commandant of the Sobibor and Treblinka extermination camps.

Arrest, Trial and Death
Although his role in the mass murder of men, women and children were known to the Austrian authorities a warrant was not issued for Stangl's arrest until 1961. Despite being registered until his real name at the Austrian consulate in Sao Paulo, it took another six years before he was tracked by Nazi hunter Simon Wisenthal and arrested by Brazilian federal police on 28 February 1967. After extraditional to West Germany by Brazil, he was tried for the deaths of around 900,000 people. He admitted to these killings but argued that he was just doing his duty.

The Schwurgericht Dusseldorf court found Stangl guilty on 22 October 1970 and sentenced him to life imprisonment. He died of heart failure nineteen hours after an interview in Dusseldorf prison on 28 July 1971.