Why Franz Stangl Wasn T The Nicest Man In The World

Franz Stangl wasn’t the nicest man in the world. Killing hundreds of thousands of Jews without a second thought because he thought they were simply just cargo. Franz Stangl was born in Altmunster, Austria on March 26th, 1908. At the age of 23 Franz gave up his training as a master-weaver and joined the Austrian police force and after two years he finally graduated. Later in 1935, he was transferred to a small town called Wels to become part of the political division of the criminal investigation department.
After one year in the criminal investigation department, Franz became an illegal member of the Nazi Party. According to the article “In November 1940 he became the Police Superintendent of the notorious Euthanasia Institute at Scloss Hartheim, where the mentally and physically handicapped and also political prisoners from concentration camps were transferred for liquidation.” In case you don’t know what liquidation is it means elimination. Franz Stangl would brutally massacre thousands of handicapped people because he thought his life is more precious than those of the handicapped. But who can measure that?
As he would send the Jews off to their death, he didn’t even happen to think of them as people but more as livestock or cargo. According to his interview with Gitta Sereny when riding by a slaughterhouse in a train, seeing the cows reminded him of Jews and he stated: “Look at this, this reminds me of Poland; that's just how the people looked, trustingly, just before they went into the