Sobibor - The Commandant's House and Franz Stangl

The commandant's villa, also called the Swallow's nest, that was occupied in 1942 by Franz Stangl and the other Sobibór commandant Franz Reichleitner, is a green structure, that still exists. The Commandants had a little flat on the top floor.

Obersturmführer Franz Stangl was the first commandant of Sobibór appointed by Heinrich Himmler. Stangl, a member of the SS-, was the manager of the T-4 Euthanasia Program in Nazi Germany at both the Hartheim and Bernburg extermination hospitals. Stangl served as the Sobibór's commandant from 28 April to the end of August 1942. On 1st September 1942 Stangl arrived at Treblinka to be come Commandant.

After the war Stangl escaped to Brazil and worked in a Volkswagen production plant in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo). He was arrested in 1967, extradited and tried in West Germany for the mass murder of 900,000 people. In 1970 Stangl was found guilty and sentenced to the maximum penalty, life imprisonment. He died of heart failure six months later.
 

I did not purposely take any pictures of the house but managed to capture some images from the pictures I took of the ramp

 

The original Commandant's villa at Sobibor (Oct 2016)



The railway line outside the Sobibor camp.
The original Commandant's house is just in view on the
right-hand side of the ramp, Jan 2016.

The buffer and railway line and outside the Sobibor camp.
The original Commandant's house is just in view on the
right-hand side of the ramp, Oct 2016.