West Germany formally asked Brazil today for the extradition of Franz Stangl, the former commandant of the Treblinka and Sobibor death camps, who was seized in Sao Paulo last March 2, and has since been held under maximum security detention by federal police.
He was arrested on a request by Austria, where he is on an Austrian list of wanted Nazi war criminals. Poland also seeks to extradite him for trial in that country, the site of the two death camps during the German occupation. Franciszek Rafalowski, Poland’s assistant prosecutor general, arrived here yesterday in connection with the Stangl case.
Meanwhile federal police disclosed today that Stangl had denied killing or ordering the killing of “even one Jew.”
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