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My conscience is clear. I was simply doing my duty...

— Franz Stangl

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I rarely saw them as individuals. It was always a huge mass...they were naked, packed together, running, being driven with whips.

He was a Dragoner (one of the imperial elite regiments). Our lives were run on regimental lines. I was scared to death of him.

No, no, no. This was the system. Wirth had invented it. It worked. And because it worked, it was irreversible.

My guilt is that I am still here...I should have died. That is my guilt.

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