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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.