Escape from Sobibor is a film based on true events
It tells the story of more than 300 Jews fleeing Nazi extermination camps
Sobibor Extermination Camp
It was built during The Nazi Operation Reinhard during World War II
The Nazis built three extermination camps to purge the last of the Jews
The most secret of these is the Sobibor Extermination Camp
Sobibor consists of three parts
They are the office area receiving area and the extinction area
The office area is the office and place where the SS officers live
The receiving areas held prisoners who had been selected as laborers
The people who are selected are based on their strengths
It is divided into shoemakers, goldsmiths, carpenters, and tailors
Another part was taken to the extinction zone
The extinction zone knows what it does by hearing its name
Toxic gas chambers shelter pit crematoria and guard battalions
All the prisoners held here live in simple houses
The daily meal was only enough soup and bread for rats to eat
Although each of them worked carefully
But they would still be beaten by the Nazis
Some Nazis even took pleasure in torturing and humiliating prisoners
Every day Jews die at the hands of the SS
Of these, SS Deputy Commander Wagner was the most famous sadist
His greatest joy every day was to beat up the prisoners in the extermination camps
Today we're going to talk about Wagner
Gustav Lantz Göna is An Austrian
Born in July 1911
He joined the Nazi Party in Austria in 1931
Arrested for propagating Nazi ideas to gather crowds to make trouble
He then fled to Germany to join the SA first
He later joined the SS
In May 1940 he became a member of the SS T-4 program
Mainly responsible for the elimination of those in Germany
Disabled persons who "have no survival value"
Mentally ill people, critically ill patients, etc
Due to the accumulation of rich killing experience in the T4 program
March 1942
Wagner was assigned to Langland to participate in the preparation of the sobiburg extermination camp
After the construction of the concentration camp was completed
He became the deputy of the concentration camp commander, Stengel
Wagner in Sobiburg is the cold-blooded and most brutal sadist
Whenever groups of Jews were sent to Sobibor
All hand-picked by Wagner
Leave a small number of people he thinks are "useful" to do labor
Most of the rest were sent to the gas chambers and killed
Laborers held in concentration camps
Wagner was whipped and shot at will
He once snatched a baby from his mother's arms and threw him to death
Other prisoners shot and killed them if they didn't understand his German orders
Survivors of Sobibor recall
One night Wagner broke into the Jewish quarters and ordered them all to stand up
There was a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy named Abraham
Because the day work is too hard to sleep very deeply
Wagner did not hear his orders and thunderously
Drag Abraham off the bed
Viciously wielding a leather whip, Abraham hit the ground
He was scaled until he was tired of fighting before pulling out his pistol
A shot was fired in front of Abraham's head in front of everyone
Another survivor said he was working at a restaurant one day
Hear Wagner and Steagall
And other SS guards discuss Belzeg
The question of the number of Jews exterminated in the Treblinka and Sobibossch concentration camps
The result of the discussion was the Sobiburg concentration camp
Ranked last in this killing race
Wagner felt "very sorry" at the time.
On October 14, 1943, a riot broke out in the Sobiburg concentration camp
Wagner was not in the camp that day
About 300 people fled Sobibor
But only 50 were lucky enough to survive the war
About 250,000 Jews were killed in Sobibor
After the riots, Himmler ordered the closure of the Sobibor concentration camp
Some Jews were transferred from Treblinka
With the Jews who were unable to escape from Sobibor
Under Wagner's supervision
The demolition of buildings and facilities involved in the Holocaust in the Sobiburg concentration camp began
The clearing of the land wiped out all evidence of the Holocaust
Sobibor was transformed into a barracks
Wagner then led the SS to kill all the laborers
After the complete destruction of Sobibor
Wagner followed Another murderous SS brigade commander, Grobčnik
Went to Italy to continue the criminal work of killing Jews
Until Germany surrendered
After the war, Wagner was sentenced to death in absentia by a court
But Wagner and Stengel fled to South America with the help of the Holy See
Escaped the law
Wagner was interviewed in Brazil
In 1950 Wagner acquired Brazilian citizenship under the pseudonym Gonshe Mendel
Since then, he has been hiding in Brazil and living a quiet and low-key life
No one could have imagined this middle-aged man who looked polite
It was actually a murderous maniac with blood stained on his hands
1967 Stengel in Brazil
Discovered by Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal
Brazil extradited him to West Germany
He gave clues about Wagner's life in Brazil
Wiesenthal continued to track Wagner based on this clue
Finally, the extremely hidden Wagner surfaced
But incredible
This time the Brazilian government not only refused
Extradition requests from Israel and Austria
Even West Germany's request for Wagner's extradition was rejected
It's hard to guess what's going on
Anyway Wagner took the luck
Once again, he escaped justice
Continue to live his peaceful life
He was also interviewed by the BBC in 1979
Wagner has no remorse for mentioning his massacre in World War II
He said lightly: I have no feelings
It's just a job
In the evenings we never talk about work issues and only like to drink and play cards
Wagner died on October 3, 1980
His body was found with a knife stuck in his chest
His lawyer claimed to have died by suicide
But unbelievable yes
A Nazi murderer who slipped through the net narrowly escaped trial
After decades of lingering, he had committed suicide for no reason
Is it the conscience that finds suicide to apologize for this impossible?
So it's likely that the Revenge group found him and killed Wagner
Anyway, the murderer with his hands stained with blood died
It can also be regarded as a consolation to the spirits of countless innocent people who were killed by him in heaven
(End)