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J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR 191 6.7. The Brazilian Extradition Proceedings against F. Stangl and G. Wagner The first commander at Sobibór, Franz Stangl, as well as SS- Oberscharführer Gustav Wagner who had also been stationed at Sobibór emigrated to Brazil after the war. Stangl was arrested in 1967 at the instigation of Simon Wiesenthal and extradited to Germany. Gustav Wagner gave himself up to the São Paolo police in 1978, after Wiesenthal had launched a hunt against another man by the name of Wagner. The Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paolo reports in its edition of 2 June 1978 that he adamantly denied the existence of gas chambers at Sobibór. 547 After having been jailed for some time, Wagner was released. No fewer than four states (Israel, Poland, Austria, and Germany) requested his extradition, but the Brazilian courts rejected all demands. 548 In the proceedings against both Stangl and Wagner the former Sobibór detainee Stanislav Szmajzner appeared as a witness for the prosecution 549 – we have drawn his profile elsewhere in this book. 550 Franz Stangl was sentenced to life imprisonment by a Düsseldorf court in December of 1970 for the murder of ‘at least 400,000 Jews.’ 551 He launched an appeal. While the appeal was being processed, the journalist Gitta Sereny visited him in his cell on several occasions. He suddenly died on 28 June 1971. After his death Gitta Sereny wrote her book Into that Darkness, which has become a classic of ‘Holocaust’ literature. The book claims that Stangl had confessed without reservation to the mass murders at Sobibór and Treblinka, which he had been charged with. Still, Gitta Sereny could not really prove her point: there is no recording of her conversations with Stangl, and since dead men don’t talk, she could have Stangl say whatever she liked. Gitta Sereny gives us an interesting account of her last interview with Stangl, though: 552 “The last day I spent with Stangl was Sunday, 27 June 1971. He had not been feeling well during the better part of that week and had stomach problems. I had brought him, on that day, a special soup in a thermos bottle. It was an Austrian soup that he said his wife 547 Cf. chapter 4.5., p. 105. 548 http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Wagner_(SS-Mitglied) 549 J. Schelvis, op. cit. (note 72), p. 300, 302. 550 Cf. chapter 2.3.5, p. 28. 551 A. Rückerl (ed.), op. cit. (note 36), p. 86. 552 G. Sereny, op. cit. (note 357), p. 362.
192 J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR cooked for him when he was feeling poorly. When I came back after being away for half an hour to have lunch, he had changed completely – he was in good spirits, his face was smooth and his eyes were fresh. ‘I cannot tell you how fine I feel, all of a sudden,’ he said. ‘I have eaten this wonderful soup and then taken a nap. And I have never had such a good rest. Ach, I feel wonderful,’ he repeated.” A day later, Franz Stangl, who had liked Gitta Sereny’s soup so much, left this world, and the master chef could write her book without worrying about any arguments. We leave it to the reader to draw his own conclusions from these bare facts. Once the requests for Gustav Stangl’s extradition had been definitely rejected in October of 1980, Gustav Wagner allegedly committed “suicide by stabbing himself.” Schelvis designates the suicide thesis as the “official Brazilian version” and adds: 553 “Szmajzner, however, let on that he had not been an entirely passive bystander at his death.” Shaindy Perl tells us more about this matter: 554 “Wagner’s victory [i.e. the refusal by the Brazilian legal authorities to let him be extradited] was short-lived; he could not escape his avengers forever. One day in 1980, he was suddenly attacked and killed outside his home. His assailants left his mutilated body on his property and disappeared without a trace.” 553 J. Schelvis, op. cit. (note 71), p. 264. 554 S. Perl, op. cit. (note 62), p. 232.
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