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| | Commentary Magazine - Into that Darkness, by Gitta Sereny (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | In 1970, the Diisseldorf court sentenced Franz Stangl to life imprisonment for his role as commandant of Treblinka where, it was estimated, a total of 900,000 Jews had been murdered in World War II, virtually half of them during Stnagl's tenure. |
 | | ...When Stangl took command, conditions were such that the corpses of dead Jews littered the entrance to the camp, while whole trains full of men, women, and children sat on the tracks for days at a time before those still alive could be unloaded and taken to the gas chamber... |
 | | ...It was to this chaos that Stangl brought order: he speeded up the killings and saw to it that corpses no longer littered the station and that the clothes and goods of the Jews were properly disposed of instead of being allowed to lie hipdeep on the ground... |
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