Franz Stangl, 59-year-old wartime commander of two Nazi death camps in occupied Poland, was flown here charged with the responsibility for the mass killing of Jews, from Brazil and brought before an investigating Judge who issued a formal warrant for his arrest on war crimes charges.
The former SS major was placed in custody to await trial sometime later this year. He was accompanied on his trip by two West German security agents. He was brought to Rio in secret from Brasilia where he had been under maximum security attention since his arrest last March, then transferred to a regular commercial flight to West Germany.
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