Gustav Wagner

Gustav Wagner, born on July eighteenth, nineteen eleven, was an Austrian military officer and politician who held the rank of Master Sergeant (Hauptscharführer) in the SS. His career was marked by his involvement in one of the darkest chapters of history during World War II.

Wagner served as the deputy commander of the Sobibor extermination camp, located in German-occupied Poland. This camp was notorious for its role in Operation Reinhard, where an estimated two hundred thousand to two hundred fifty thousand Jews were systematically murdered in gas chambers.

His reputation for brutality earned him the chilling nicknames