![]() ![]() In charge of the everyday running of the camp. The information board in front of the entrance to the camp states that 800,000 people died at Treblinka. Franz Stangl and Franz Reichleitner were the successive commanders of Sobibor. ![]() However, we know for sure that 713,555 people were murdered in the camp by the end of 1942. Only Ryszard Czarkowski differs in number from those presented here, because he gives the number of 1,582,000. Franz Paul Stangl (German: tal 26 March 1908 28 June 1971) was an Austrian police officer and commandant of the Nazi extermination camps Sobibor and Treblinka in World War Two. Earlier in 1967, Brazil extradited Wagners former commanding officer, Franz Stangl, who stood trial in West Germany, was convicted and sentenced to life. Raul Hilberg provides 750,000, Martin Gilbert – 850,000, Ytzak Arad – 850,000, Czesław Madajczyk 700,000-800,000, Manfred Burba – 912,000. An observatory of human collective memory. Helmut Kransnik and Albert Rückerl assumed it as the minimum number. ![]() Other historians dealing with this problem report between 700,000 and 900,000 fatalities. In the second trial in 1970 against Franz Stangl, historian Dr Wolfgang Scheffer from Berlin, an expert, calculated the losses at 900,000. In Kurt Franz’s trial in Düsseldorf in 1965, the Court set the losses at 700,000. Zdzisław Łukaszkiewicz, who conducted the first scientific research, the author of the book The Extermination Camp Treblinka described Treblinka’s losses as 780,000 according to his calculations there were 156 transports of 5,000 people each. The research undertaken as early as 1945-1946 by the Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland made the scale of human losses more realistic. He estimated it by counting the capacity of gas chambers and the duration of the camp’s operation. In his book The Hell of Treblinka published in 1945, Vasily Grossman gave the number of 3 million. After the end of the war, the process of determining the number of victims that died in Treblinka began. ![]()
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