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  • I think Wagner was not even an SS Officer - just a corporal of something - a small fish. Calling him some sort of Commandant is strange. It seems that the planners of the Holocaust got away with it. It is a bit with the US Army like now when the low down ones take the blame. The Specialists (I guess like Wagner) are the ones blamed.

  • Maybe you shoud choose a more quiet place for such important testimony

  • Wait, so they did a TV interview with him, and NOBODY came to arrest him?! I would have taken his head and sawed it off in front of everybody. That he was never brought to justice is a tragedy.

  • @RawPower867 He had been arrested and had successfully stopped his extradition. So who was going to arrest him?

  • Alan, does Toivi have any memory of Stangl...did he have any contact with him at Sobibor? cheers for the great interview. Give him my best when you talk to him!!

  • @merseywhogirl No, Stangl had long left by the time Tom was taken there. Stangl left in the summer of 1942.  I will pass your message on!

  • It would be nice if you would transcribe your films, if you can. That would fix any problem with background noise and soft voices. Thank you for your work.

    BTW I did try the google tool and it does not work very well.

  • @seaoftears4ever I am sorry but I do not have time to do this. If someone else wants to do it then please do so!

  • na świecie jest jeszcze wielu takich zbrodniarzy

  • @pawelh9 Niestety tak.

  • Gouldn't you come up with a quiet place for the interview? I can hardy understand him!

  • @res57 Then try turning up the volume.

  • this  interview happend on my 15th birthday i love ur vids alan :) the monster wagner shot a baby aswell acording to the film escape from sobibor

  • @chevz92 I am very happy you like my videos - makes it worthwhile doing them.

    Wagner may not have shot the baby in the way shown in the film but the film was indicative of his character!

  • David Irving apparantly interviewed Leopold Gutterer, Goebbels' state secretary in 1993, and Guttner claimed that Herschel Grynszpan was pointed out to him at his trial in the 50's, viewing the proceedings from the back of the courtroom. I find this young mans tale particularly interesting, because of the fact he disappeared after early 1944. Do you think any more documents could in the future be found regarding his fate Alan? Thanks for the quick replys also!

  • @trespasser09 I know this story from David Irving. I cannot believe it though. Hershel's family survived the war - ironically enough. They fled to the USSR whilst the son they sent to safety was killed. The curious thing about him is that I do not believe he would just be killed as he was 'protected' being kept back for a show trial. I suspect that he may have been killed at the very end of the war. Maybe some documents will come forward although I doubt it!

  • When is Mike thinking of publishing his book Alan? My other question is that do you know if herschel grynszpan is still alive, or whether he died during the war/afterwards? Many thanks

  • @trespasser09 Mike is a perfectionist and always wants to do more research. I do not know when it will be ready.

    Hershel Grynszpan did not survive the war.  Eichmann was questioned on him during his trial. Grynszpan was alive at the beginning of 1944.

    The legal arguments around him are quite curious particularly given the illegality of the mass murders of millions of other people by the Nazis.

  • Alan do you know anyone who met wirth or kurt franz who would talk to you about them? Very interesting vid

  • @trespasser09 Wirth was killed in April 1944 and Franz died in June 1998. My friend Michael Tregenza spoke to people who knew both and corresponded with Franz. I hope he will comment on this when his book comes out!

  • Dear Friend bm534.

    It would be nice if someone coult put this interwiew here on teh youtube.

    But he didn't diesd slashing his wrist but ith a knive on his chest.

    Of course he was lyning about Stangl, but he was death at that time, and someone has the right to declare himself inocent.

    Believe it ore not, but i live in Sao Paulo Brazil, and my Vather was a Friend of Gustav Wagner, that's because i can say this things shurely.

  • The photographs of Wagner's death do not bear you out. Having said that I would not be surprised if someone killed him.

  • @senhorincrivel2,

    Is your father German? Still alive? Age?

    How did he become friends with Wagner?

  • On 'Nazi Hunters' which appeared on the British channel 'yesterday' last week, heir was an interesting TV interview with Wagner in 1978, by the BBC.

    Wagner basically said he'd done nothing wrong in Sobibor, and blamed Stangl for everything.....Wagner had a knack for turning on his friends it seems...expecially after Stangl had done so much to help him escape.

    Wagner tried to kill himself many times in prison in Brazil, such as eating his glasses, and finally fatally slashing his wrists.

  • I know of this interview but have never seen it. I hope someone will post it here!

  • @bm534 I would like to repeat my request that if anyone knows of where to see this interview I would be very grateful.

  • Wagner worked on a construction site in austria after WW2, when Stangl fled across the italian border, he encountered Wagner by chance working- pulling down a house by the side of the road. Wagner shouted "Captain!" and begged to come with Stangl there and then.

    It appears both went seperate ways once in italy...Wagner obtained a visa for the middle east, its unkown if they were in syria together, but did meet up in around 1951 when both emigrated to brazil.

  • I wonder why he did not tell this to Gitta Sereny.  Maybe because Wagner was still alive.

  • After Franz Stangl was extradited to Germany. Gustav Wagner harrassed Stangl's wife...he wanted to move in with her, saying "Stangl's had it" but she threw him out, but not before giving him money to bury his own dead wife. She later saw Wagner begging in a remote brazilian town, in around 1968 wearing torn clothes.

  • I read what Gitta Sereny said about Wagner which was written after Stangl's death but before Wagner was captured. However I knew nothing of Wagner begging and taking money from Mrs Stangl.

  • Why interview in a cafe` background is very annoying and disrespectful to the nature of content--Alex22

  • Then you arrange a location together with transport and we will do the next one there.

  • Very interesting interview--purely commenting on technical overview as background sound overode his voice but as you said,difficult to obtain interview at all I`m sure

  • este Gustav Wagner no tiene sangre en la Cara Yo no tenía sentimientos.... Esto sólo se convirtió en otro trabajo. Por la tarde nunca hablábamos de nuestro trabajo, pero sólo bebíamos y jugábamos a las cartas".

  • maldito nazzi ignorante quisiera que me pongan en frente con wagner tngo 18 años y solo kiero una oportunidad para verlo suplicar como auellos q lo hicieron ante el maldito aleman ignorante

  • @keysung666 No tendras la oportunidad - no vive desde hace mas que treinta anos.

  • alguien por dios podria traducir al español,

  • Mucha gente quiere que hago traducciones en otras linguas pero tengo muchas peliculas y no tengo el tiempo.

    Pero la proxima vez que estare en Sobibór, hare una pelicula del campo en espańol.

  • fuckin nazi bastard...gustav rot in hell....

  • Wagner committed suicide in Brazil. A singularly unpleasant individual in the history of the Holocaust.

  • kill Gustav Wagner ! Gustav Wagner --- Satana

    kill all nazist

  • He committed suicide awhile ago...

  • Didn't Wagner die in Brazil before he could be extradited to German or was that Stangl ?

  • Wagner died in 1978. Stangl was arrested in 1969 in Brazil, deported, got a life sentence and then died just before his appeal came up. Wagner tried to pick up Stangl's wife but she was not having any of it!

  • It's a shame Wagner didn't get killed during the revolt and escape. It would have been poetic justice. Evil unfortuantely is alive and well...

  • Had he been there, the revolt may never have succeeded. He probably would not have been trapped as the others were!

  • This is a fascinating interview Alan - Have you interviewed any other survivors ? There can't be more than 20 survivors of Sobibor still alive today.

  • There are around ten survivors still alive. I have got Arkadi, Philip and Tom here. You can see other surivivors in films of mine but without direct questioning!

  • You mean Arkadi Weisspapir (or something like that)?

  • yes, I have a very long interview with him here on this channel!!

  • Out of curiosity, have you ever gotten to talk to Hartmut Becker, the Actor who played Wagner about what it was like to act that part?

  • I don't know him but I am a bit outside of the acting world!

  • The only pitty I have for Wagner is that it's a pitty that baby killing bag of shit didn't die sooner.

  • Gustav Wagner is a piece shit .

  • thomas blatt should do more interviews

    this is great insight to what kind of scumbag

    wanger was

  • There are several interviews and talks on this channel although not all are in English.

  • The full movie is available here on you tube!

  • I saw the photo of Wagner's body he had what appears to be blood running down his noise it looks as if he was murdered if im right then he got what was coming to him.

  • The police said it was suicide although it does not like it. Solomon Szmajzer gave it to be understood that he killed Wagner although this is unlikely and he would have been the first suspect for the police.

  • Toivi Blatt  Said it Wagner was a sadist.

  • wagner was a creep

    and no one with a good heart liked him!

  • I find the background noise very annoying but i am glad you spoke to MR Blatt i read the book escape from sobibor and i found it to be a very inspiring insight to the jewish resistance that not too many know about.

  • Nice uploading! they Old famous Nazi cant not run away!. they will be found!!..

    maybe the most of them are dead now!...

    I wounder if they found "Alois Brunner" ??

  • I thought Alois Brunner was living in Damascus although the Syrians still deny it.

  • "But last October German journalists visiting Syria said Brunner was living at the Meridian Hotel in Damascus. Brunner is easily identifiable, having lost an eye and several fingers from letter bombs sent him years ago by Israel's intelligence services."

    He said his one regret was that he hadn't murdered more Jews. In 1987, in a telephone interview, he told the Chicago Sun Times: "The Jews deserved to die. I have no regrets. If I had the chance I would do it again..."

  • You can see what it looks like today in other films I have placed here. Put Sobibor in the search engine! You can also see all the other Nazi death camps as well.

  • I hope that Wagner was killed by Schlomo becuse he was tormented by Wagner right?

  • Schlomo was beaten by Wagner but he did not kill him. When Schlomo identified Wagner in prison, Wagner said words to the effect of 'I saved you and your brothers'.

    I could not say what was torment and what was not.

  • This whatshisface this denierguy or whatever his name is,...He's a right character huh? maybe people should just ignore him. I mean he must be a windup merchant. He can't really believe his own bullshit oterwise he is admitting he is at the very least as thick as two short planks and at the outside ...Certifiably Insane.Maybe he should be left with the rest of these assholes to simmer in their own stew of intellectual default. why give the daft bastards a forum.

  • You are right, thank you for your comments.

  • Many thanks for this interview.

  • There are more together with videos of every death camp in Poland.

  • Stuff like this is keeping the memory of a terrible atrocity alive, which is a very important thing.

  • Mr Blatt is a hero.

  • For those that like to complain about the poor quality of my films this is your chance to have some input.

    My Sony Cybershot - used for all films here but one - has given up on me. I do not want to buy a video camera - just a compact camera which I can carry around in my pocket.

    What camera should I buy and why?

  • I first learned about Sobibor in my U.S History Class in 2006. I instantly was interested about the whole "subject." What's your e-mail?

  • Thank you for your message. You can write to me on this site.

  • Hi denierbud,you painted a picture of me"lying"when clearly I was being sarcastic.Its clear that you love painting pictures of people.The only person here that wants to bend the truth for your argument is you,I think you knew I was being sarcastic,if not,now you know lol

  • Yup,youre right denierbud,short range weapons are less effective at longer distances.Its ironic how you want to paint a picture that"the Germans could not have done things that look like"pure evil"(in your eyes)".Im pretty sure thiefs were made examples of.Bracing for the bullet.

  • i bought the movie "escape from sobibór" in the spring of 2007 and it was the very first time i actually heard about it. i decided to visit the place on my short trip to europe few weeks ago and video is available on my page. i tried to sent an email to thomas blatt as published on webpage about camp, but no response. is it possible to receive one copy in english of the book he wrote with his signature? thank you

  • Thank you very much and I shall tell Tom this when I speak to him next. He stayed with me last week and is now in Lublin. If you have a skype number I will call you on that when he is here next. You can send it to me by e-mail on this site.

    Alan

  • i would like to thank you to each one of you who survived the legendary escape as well as payed with your life for that we can live in peace today.

    martin

  • There is no doubt in my mind tthat the Holocaust really happened . I have visited Anne Franks House twice now . I have met survivors of Auschwitz.Sobibor did exist or why else would they have made every effort to make it dissapear .

    Is there any chance of getting Toivi's Email address ? I would love to speak with him and ask about some of the people who were with him at Sobibor. Bill McCann

  • There are very few survivors of Sobibor still alive and all of the perpetrators are now dead. I will speak to Tom about your desire to speak to him and I will give you my telephone number or skype address for you to call when he is at my place (expected next month).

  • oh my god how interesting a surviver from sobibor! id love 2 meet him the film escape from sobibor iz a brilliant film!! A.riley

  • Denierbud aka hookednose you have absolutely no qualifications other than being an antisemitic rightwing propagandist. Not only are you not content with an assault on the memory of the millions of defenceless victims yet you seek to deny the testimonies of the few survivors who were there and those of the German perpetrators at numerous war crimes trial most in Germany. Only the truly ignorant will take you seriously.

  • Tom Blatt was not a witness for the prosecution as far as I am aware. If David Irving went to Treblinka and said that as far as he is concerned it was a death camp, would you believe it?

  • So you're basically saying that it is "well-documented" that Germans were tortured or coerced yet when asked for evidence, you whine about "revisionists" being jailed. You're crying about an invisible elephant. A typical trait of "revisionist" true believers.

  • For Octo333's scenario: Suppose there was a guard who worked in Auschwitz in a high-up position. And 20 years after the war, he goes to a newspaper and says "this is a big lie." The paper would have a headline in the next couple days: "Auschwitz officer captured" and his message would never get out. Did you ever hear what Richard Baer had to say about being the commandante of Auschwitz? I didn't think so.

  • "Nazi Mass Murder", Yale Uni. Press, 1993, on page 142, a statement of Baer from Dec. 22, 1960, is quoted, with the full source: "I commanded only Camp I at Auschwitz. <b>I had nothing to do with the camps where the <i>gassings</i> took place.</b> I had no influence over them. It was in Camp II, at Birkenau, that the gassings took place. That camp was not under my authority".

    BTW, Baer's pre-trial interrogations are publicly available.

  • Except that there's no evidence that this was done to former SS men and Germans. In your vids, you write that it is "well-documented" that many Germans were tortured or coerced. Well, where's the documentation, Bud? Don't cry about an invisible elephant if you can't show it.

  • As deniers say, "show solid proof!" Not just that Germans were tortured, but they all were forced to read a script that would condemn them. And for some reason they wouldn't tell the truth after years in prison or the walking to the gallows. Eye witnesses? Documentation? How did this happen in all the trials through 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's? Was all that survivor testimony coerced as well, or did the conspiracy say, "Tell this story and you'll get reperations when your 85!"

  • Yep, it partly does, and you prove your unfamiliarity with firearms and in general what you blather about when you make such remarks.

  • Of course it is a forgery - just like everything else in the Shoah - no-one was ever transported to any camps, there were never any ghettos, no starvation, no disease, no gas chambers no nothing. All fake. And what better source than Germar Rudolf????

  • Only that the same is said by other witnesses including Frenzel.

  • Denierbud, you're basing your argument on speculation. Wagner probably shot the boy with a pistol, which is a <b>short range</b> weapon, ineffective at longer distances. And maybe the shots did not hit the boy's brain or heart, maybe the shots hit him in other places. There are a number of possibilities which must be excluded before concluding that Blatt's account is absurd.

  • Have you seen someone shot? Do people just fall down when they are shot like on the television?

  • ok I will ask him and post the reply here in the early summer.

  • Well, the death photos of Gustav Franz Wagner from Tom Blatt's own website show Wagner covered in blood from being stabbed in the chest. But if you want to believe that's a suicide, go right ahead.

  • I will address this point. The photographs do not look like suicide granted. Schlomo Szmajzer gave people to believe he was responsible for killing Wagner by not answering the question directly but Brazilian police ruled him out. However Wagner was depressed and lonely in the 1970s, a brief moment of fame but when it was clear that he would get little protection from the authorities he behaved as the coward he undoubtedly was and took his own life.

  • So "little protection from the authorities" equals suicide by knife in chest?

    Or does "little protection from the authorities" allow an assassin to come onto your farm and kill you?

    And how do you know Wagner was depressed and lonely in the 70's? Where is your source for that?

  • Source is the wife of Franz Stangl.

  • Wife of Franz Stangl? Where did you read what she said?

  • You could start by reading Gitta Sereny 'Into that Darkness'

  • Wagner's marriage proposal to Stangl's wife is described in Wiesenthal's book ''Justice, not revenge''

  • I think he got it from Gitta Sereny's Into that Darkness. She interviewed Mrs Stangl in Brazil in the early 1970s.

  • You are 100% right.

  • It is good that you have the information that Wagner was murdered in Brazil as for everyone else it was suicide. Frenzel spent many years in prison although he died in an old people's home in northern Germany around six years ago. Obivously you have the information that Toivi Blatt is lying - no doubt with far greater knowledge on Sobibor than he has - please present it.

  • This refutes denial. Are we supposed to believe that Blatt lied <b>every single time</b> he told of his experience in Sobibor??? Why? What does Blatt get from lying?

  • Also why would Himmler lie: I am talking about the "Jewish evacuation": the extermination of the Jewish people. It is one of those things that is easily said. "The Jewish people is being exterminated", every Party

    member will tell you, 'perfectly clear, it's part of our plans, we're eliminating the Jews, exterminatiting them...' (Poznan, October 1943)

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