The actual liquidation of the patients was carried out by doctors and nurses. Stangl, who signed all documents with the alias Staudt by the way, was responsible for the smooth running of the administration. In the course of Aktion T4 over 18,000 physically and mentally disabled persons were gassed here by means of carbon monoxide (CO). Extermination took place in six euthanasia institutions.Īfter a short stay in Berlin, Stangl became office chief in one of these institutions, the NS-Tötungsanstalt (institute for killing), Schloß Hartheim near Linz in November 1939.
FRANZ STANGL COULD YOU HAVE DONE YOUR JOB LESS WELL CODE
Aktion T4, after the abbreviation of the address, was the code name for these systematic murders - in close cooperation with the SS - of some 70,000 disabled patients by doctors and nurses in the period from October 1939 to August 1941. Headquarters was located in a respectable villa at Tiergartenstraße 4 in Berlin. The purpose of he program was to "preserve the racial purity of the Germanic people" by systematically murdering those people who were deformed, disabled or suffering from mental disorders. Behind this name however, the organization that carried out the Nazi euthanasia program was hidden. In 1936 Brigitta – Gitta – was born, Renate followed in 1937 and Isolde in 1944.Īt the end of 1940, Stangl was promoted to Polizeileutnant (chief inspector of police) and transferred to an institution with the innocent name " Gemeinnützige Stiftung für Heil- und Anstaltspflege" (Foundation for the general benefit of health care and institutions). Meanwhile, on October 7, 1935, Stangl had married Theresa (Thea) Eidenböck. He left the Catholic church that same year, as ordered by his superior. Stangl was promoted to Kriminaloberassistent and put to work in the Judenreferat. In January 1939, the political branch of the Kripo was taken over by the Gestapo and transferred to Linz. Whatever, Stangl’s career in the police blossomed. After the war, Stangl gave as his reason that membership of the party after the Anschluß could mean trouble for him as a police officer. in the personnel files of the police to 1936 when the Austrian N.S.D.A.P. By the way, in 1938 he "corrected" his year of entry into the N.S.D.A.P. In March 1938, after the annexation of Austria by the German empire, Stangl joined the N.S.D.A.P., membership number 6,370,447 and became member number 296,569 in the SS. In the fall of 1935, he was transferred to the political branch of the Kripo in Wels, the second largest city in Upper Austria after Linz. in a forest, he was awarded the Adler medal and was allowed to begin training as a detective in the Kriminalpolizei – Kripo or criminal police. When he stumbled upon a secret arms cache of the – illegal- Austrian N.S.D.A.P. After a year’s training he was deployed as junior police man, first in the highway police, later on in the special police force. It is conspicuous how Stangl would later describe his instructors as sadists. He applied for a job in the police, was accepted and followed basic training with the police in Linz at their training center Kaplanhof. A career in the textile industry seemed a natural choice, regarding his training, but he had to quit in 1931 for reasons of health. His great hobby was playing the cither, he was an active member of the local cither club and gave lessons on the instrument. He went to work as an apprentice in a weaving mill and on completion of his training in 1926, he was the youngest master weaver in Austria. When he was 15 years of age, Stangl had enough of school. Stangl said about his father: " " After his father died in 1916, his mother remarried the year after, a widowed worker in the local steel mill who had two children of his own. His father had served with the dragoons in the Imperial Austro-Hungarian army and ruled the family with an iron military discipline. Franz Paul Stangl was born Main Altmünster, Austria the second child – he had a sister 10 years his senior – of a night guard.
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