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In "Into that Darkness", the commander of Treblinka Franz Stangl claims that former death camp personnel were assigned to the most dangerous duties in the last years of the war in order to get them killed as they were an "embarrassment". Is there any truth to this or was Stangl fishing for sympathy?

by /u/124876720 in /r/AskHistorians

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