Franz Stangl quotes

Franz Stangl was an Austrian SS officer and Nazi commandant of the Sobibor and Treblinka extermination camps during the Holocaust. His actions contributed to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He was later arrested, tried, and sentenced to life imprisonment for his crimes. Here are 6 of his quotes:

He was a Dragoner (one of the imperial elite regiments). Our lives were run on regimental lines. I was scared to death of him.

Franz Stangl

No, no, no. This was the system. Wirth had invented it. It worked. And because it worked, it was irreversible.

Franz Stangl

My guilt is that I am still here...I should have died. That is my guilt.

Franz Stangl

I rarely saw them as individuals. It was always a huge mass...they were naked, packed together, running, being driven with whips.

Franz Stangl

Cargo. They were cargo. I think it started the day I first saw the Totenlager in Treblinka. I remember Wirth standing there, next to the pits full of blue-black corpses. It had nothing to do with humanity-it couldn't have; it was a mass-a mass of rotting flesh. Wirth said, 'What shall we do with this garbage?

Franz Stangl