Next Stangl met with Viktor Brack, who offered him a choice of work between Hartheim and Sonnenstein Euthanasia Centres naturally, Stangl picked Hartheim, which was near Linz. He traveled to the RSHA in Berlin, where he was received by Paul Werner, who offered Stangl a job as supervisor in charge of security at a T4 killing facility, and in the language commonly used during recruitment, described Action T4 as a "humanitarian" effort that was "essential, legal, and secret". Stangl purposely solicited for a job in the newly created T-4 program in order to escape difficulties with his boss in the Linz Gestapo. He would ultimately reach the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer (Captain).Īfter the onset of World War II, in early 1940, Stangl was instructed to report for work at the Public Service Foundation for Institutional Care ( Gemeinnützige Stiftung für Anstaltspflege), a front organization of the T-4 Euthanasia Program. After Austria's Anschluss Stangl was assigned to the Schutzpolizei (which was taken over by the Gestapo) in Linz, where he was posted to the Jewish Bureau (German: Judenreferat). In 1935, Stangl was accepted into the Kriminalpolizei as detective in the Austrian town of Wels. Stangl had Nazi Party number 6,370,447 and SS number 296,569. Records suggest that Stangl contributed to a Nazi aid fund but he disavowed knowing about the intended party purpose of the fund. Post-war, he denied having been a Nazi since 1931 and claimed that he had enrolled as member of the party only to avoid arrest following the Anschluss of Austria into Nazi Germany in May 1938. Stangl became a member of the NSDAP (commonly referred to in English as the Nazi Party) in 1931, an illegal association for an Austrian police officer at that time. He was accepted in early 1931 and trained for two years at the federal police academy in Linz. Stangl later suggested that he liked the security and cleanliness that the police uniforms represented to him. He moved to Innsbruck in 1930 and applied for an appointment in the Austrian federal police. Concerned that this trade offered few opportunities for advancement – and having observed the poor health of his co-workers – Stangl sought a new career. In his teens he secured an apprenticeship as a weaver, qualifying as a master weaver in 1927. Stangl completed his public schooling in 1923. To help support his family Franz learned to play the zither and earned money giving zither lessons. Stangl claimed his father died of malnutrition in 1916. He was the son of a night-watchman and had such an emotionally distressing relationship with his father that he was deeply frightened by and hated the sight of the elder Stangl's Habsburg Dragoons uniform. Stangl was born in 1908 in Altmünster, located in the Salzkammergut region of Austria.
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