as the british liberated bergen-belsen the soldiers were greeted with a scene of pure depravity and horror sixty thousand prisoners have been left for dead by the ss guards many of whom had simply fled the concentration camp in fear of being captured by the advancing army it was clear that horrific war crimes had been carried out at belson and after the cleanup of the camp had occurred there was a call for the perpetrators to be brought to justice and to face their fate the belson trials aimed to secure justice for the victims and a number of those on trial were sentenced to death for their crimes of the holocaust one of those was france duffel a rather high-ranking member of the ss so join us today as we look at the justified execution of franz sturful the evil monster of belsen and remember to support our channel please make sure to subscribe fran stoffel of starfield was born on the NUMBER_TOKENth of october NUMBER_TOKEN in bavaria before the second world war he worked as a clerk before joining the german army in october NUMBER_TOKEN at the time hitler had seized control of germany and the fiora sought to secure himself a huge european empire so to do this he greatly expanded the german military and stoffel originally signed up for the army however instead within a year he transitioned from the vermack to the ss he wanted to become a professional soldier and the ss gave him the opportunity to do this within the ss he was assigned to the ss tottenham cop for bandar a group which was responsible for the organization and administration of the nazi concentration camps in germany the sstv as it was known was created in NUMBER_TOKEN however it ran the largest of the concentration camps such as dachau and bergen-belsen in germany and in nazi occupied territory such as auschwitz-birkenhauer in poland and mount housing in austria they oversaw the death camps and dealt with the genocide in secrecy even establishing extermination camps places just to execute innocent people in quick fashion the group were known in particular for facilitating the holocaust in the final solution and were responsible for the deaths of millions franchdoffel was assigned to the group and was to work at dachau and from march NUMBER_TOKEN to january NUMBER_TOKEN he was in charge of a small work detailing group overseeing tasks inside of the warehouses his work was noted in this role and he was then in NUMBER_TOKEN transferred to mr baldura working as a command fuhrer or detachment commander for the creation of a new camp in klein pedungun he then oversaw the camp and led it from october NUMBER_TOKEN to early april NUMBER_TOKEN. inside of the subcamper around NUMBER_TOKEN foreign prisoners who were forced to work in mittelwerk which at the time was responsible for constructing one of hitler's wonder weapons of vNUMBER_TOKEN rocket stuffel oversaw the production and the working side of the facility on the NUMBER_TOKENth of april NUMBER_TOKEN stoffel has ordered to evacuate climber dungan by franz hosler as a united states knight farmer advancing towards mittal bardora to evacuate the prisoners a force march was ordered and it was stoffel
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