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'''Gustav Franz Wagner''' (b. 18 July 1911 in [[Wien]]; d. 3 October 1980 in São Paulo, [[Brazil]]) was an SS NCO ([[SS-Oberscharführer]]) and, during the Operation Reinhard, a deputy commander at the [[Sobibor]] camp.

==Life==

In 1931, Wagner became a member of the NSDAP in Vienna, which was still banned in [[Austria]]. He was arrested for illegal graffiti and pasting posters and went to the German Reich in 1934 to avoid further arrest. In Germany, Wagner first became a member of the [[SA]], then towards the end of the 1930s he joined the [[SS]].

After the war, he escaped to [[Brazil]] with [[Franz Stangl]]. In 1978, he was arrested, but extradition requests were rejected. In 1980, he allegedly committed suicide.

In Brazil when arrested, according to a Brazilian newspaper, Wagner stated to the police that he saw no gas chambers at Sobibor. There is a dispute regarding what Wagner said on various occasions on alleged killings more generally at the camp. Revisionists argue that the sources are second-hand or third-hand and unclear, but that Wagner may have stated that some deaths/killings occurred either at the camp and/or among those deported from it, but that this is not the same as the camp being a "pure extermination camp", and the existence of some non-genocidal deaths/killings do not contradict the revisionist view.<ref name=HH28>Carlo Mattogno, Jürgen Graf, Thomas Kues: The “Extermination Camps” of “Aktion Reinhardt”—An Analysis and Refutation of Factitious “Evidence,” Deceptions and Flawed Argumentation of the “Holocaust Controversies” Bloggers; 2nd edition. Holocaust Handbooks. The section "10.2.3. Gustav Franz Wagner". http://holocausthandbooks.com/index.php?main_page=1&page_id=28</ref>

== External links ==
*[http://holocausthandbooks.com/index.php?main_page=1&page_id=28 The “Extermination Camps” of “Aktion Reinhardt"] - Wagner is discussed at several different places in the downloadable book. They can be found with the search tool in a PDF reader. One prominent example is section "10.2.3. Gustav Franz Wagner". 

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[[Category:SS officers]]
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[[Category:NSDAP members]]
[[Category:Alleged Holocaust confessors]]

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