Note that his name is Wagner. As sure as the sun rises in the east it is only a matter of time before I find a report that he forced people to dance to german classical music.The man who actually supervised the routine and daily life at Sobibor was Gustav Wagner. He was the quartermaster-sergeant of the camp. Moshe Bahir described him:
"He was a handsome man, tall and blonde - a pure aryan."
There is no such thing as Aryan but Moshe recognizes Aryan immediately even though blond adults were a rarity in Germany. But as it was popular for the allied propaganists to describe the "supermen" as blonde it is repeated here.In civilian life he was, no doubt, a well-mannered man; at Sobibor he was a wild beast. His lust to kill knew no bounds.
The SEX connection, a LUST to kill. Real LUST here. Give him lust and nothing but.I saw such terrible scenes that they give me nightmares to this day. He would snatch babies from their mothers' arms and tear them to pieces in his hands.
Who is this guy, really? Sampson? Tearing babies to pieces with his bare hands?I saw him beat two men to death with a rifle, because they did not carry out his instructions properly, since they did not understand German. I remember that one night a group of youths aged fifteen or sixteen arrived in the camp. The head of this group was one Abraham. After a long and arduous work day, this young man collapsed on his pallet and fell asleep. Suddenly Wagner came into our barrack, and Abraham did not hear him call to stand up at once before him. Furious, he pulled Abraham naked off his bed and began to beat him all over his body. When Wagner grew weary of the blows, he took out his revolver and killed him on the spot. This atrocious spectacle was carried out before all of us, including Abraham's younger brother. 1
Think about it a minute. Tearing babies apart. Has anyone ever tried tearing apart an uncooked chicken? How about a rabbit? You have not tried it?
Fine, go buy a whole chicken, much smaller than a human baby and tear it apart with your bare hands.
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Now that you are exhausted to no success in this tearing apart a many days dead carcass, what do you think of this claim? You still believe it? You have to be a holohugger.
Is this not a wonderful description. First he beats people to death with a rifle (quite a difficult proposition but simple to those who believe he could tear infants apart with his bare hands) and then he beats a man with his bare hands. And fhen finally he pulls out a non-regulation revolver and shoots him. Not a Lugar, not a Vis, not regular issue automatic of any kind but a revolver. And note that earlier he beat a man to death with a rifle instead of simply shooting him with the rifle.Wagner's ruthless behavior toward the Jews is mentioned in some other testimonies of Sobibor survivors. Ada Lichtman writes that on the fast day of Yom Kippur, Wagner appeared at the roll call, took out some prisoners, gave them bread and ordered them to eat. As the prisoners ate the bread, he laughed loudly; he enjoyed his joke because he knew the Jews he had forced to eat were pious. 2Ah well, those wild and crazy guys were at it again.
He forced them to violate their religion and laughed. Does not every manifestation of pure demonic evil laugh? Real evil is people like the murderer of Paula Klass. Real evil is people like Dahlmer. Real evil does not laugh. But melodramtic, poor fiction evil always laughs.Gustav Wagner escaped after the war to Brazil, where he lived openly. The Brazilian Supreme Court refused to extradite him. In October 1980 his attorney announced that Wagner had committed suicide."Is there any difference in principle from this "laughing" and Count Dracula, aka Bela Legosi laughing? Why is it that evil only laughs in melodrama and not in real life? It is not even a universal characteristic of fiction but rather of a particular style of fiction.
Ah, yes, and Count Dracula escaped by England where he was later reported dead to Van Helsing but lived again in the sequals. How can the undead die?
Excerpted from, BELZEC, SOBIBOR, TREBLINKA - the Operation Reinhard Death Camps Indiana University Press - Yitzhak Arad, 1987. ISBN 0-253-3429-7
Note that to put together this story about Wagner two different sources are involved.
The first source does not have a single author, the source of the primary information is unknown.
The second source says it is from the testimony of Ada Lichtman but the text says it is from her writings. It appears Yitzhak Arad is as confused as the rest of us when it comes to what Ada Lichtman said, wrote and what was said about her.