The Association of Survivors said it planned to appeal to all European anti-Nazi groups to seek to arouse public opinion against any possible release of Stangl. The organizations asked the envoy to receive a delegation of their members to give him a detailed and formal request. Oberhauser was the only person to be successfully convicted of crimes committed at the Belzec extermination camp. He participated in Action T4 and Operation Reinhard. The Israeli Organization of Partisans, the Fighters Against Nazism, and Survivors of Concentration Camps appealed today to the Brazilian Ambassador in Brazil to prevent Stangl’s release. What Hes Infamous For: Nicknamed the White Death for his proclivity to wear a white uniform and carry a whip, the Austrian-born Stangl worked on the Aktion T-4 euthanasia. Josef Oberhauser (21 January 1915 22 November 1979) was a low-ranking German SS commander during the Nazi era. He was arrested in Brazil in 1967, extradited and tried in West Germany for the mass murder of 900,000 people, and in 1970 was found guilty and sentenced to the maximum penalty, life imprisonment. Reports emerged today from Brazil that Stangl might be released because the Brazilian 20 year statute of limitations on such crimes applies to him. Franz Paul Stangl (26 March 1908 28 June 1971) was an Austrian-born SS commandant of the Sobibor and Treblinka extermination camps during the Operation Reinhard phase of the Holocaust. ![]() ![]() ![]() Stangl, who was captured in Sao Paulo on March 2, has been held in protective custody while Brazilian authorities considered requests for his extradition by West Germany and Austria, where Stangl is on an official list of wanted Nazi war criminals. Rumors that Brazilian officials might release Franz Stangl, the long-sought commandant of the Treblinke and Sobibor Nazi death camps, spurred action today by various organizations in Israel of survivors of the Nazi holocaust.
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