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{{Short description|Austrian SS member (1911–1980)}} {{about|the deputy commander of Sobibor extermination camp|other people named Gustav Wagner|Gustav Wagner (disambiguation)}} {{Infobox military person |name = Gustav Wagner |birth_name = Gustav Franz Wagner |birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1911|7|18}} |death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1980|10|3|1911|7|18}} |birth_place = [[Vienna]], [[Austria-Hungary]] |death_place = [[São Paulo]], Brazil |image = Gustav Wagner (SS officer).gif |nickname = The Beast, Wolf ({{langx|yi|װעלפֿל}}, ''Volf'') |allegiance = {{flag|Nazi Germany}} |branch =[[File:Flag Schutzstaffel.svg|20px]] ''[[Schutzstaffel]]'' |serviceyears = late 1930s—1945 |rank = ''[[SS-Hauptscharführer]]'' |commands = [[Sobibor extermination camp]] |unit = [[SS-Totenkopfverbände|Death's Head Units]] |battles = |awards = [[War Merit Cross]] 2nd Class With Swords (1942-1943) |laterwork = |spouse = |parents = |children = }} '''Gustav Franz Wagner'''<ref name=Blatt>[http://www.sobibor.info/murderers.html Sobibor - The Forgotten Revolt]</ref> (18 July 1911 – 3 October 1980) was an Austrian member of the ''[[Schutzstaffel|SS]]'' with the rank of [[Master Sergeant]] (''[[Hauptscharführer]]'').<ref name=Klee1991>{{cite book |editor-last1=Klee |editor-first1=Ernst |editor-last2=Dressen |editor-first2=Willi |editor-last3=Riess |editor-first3=Volker |year=1991 |title=The "Good Old Days" – The Holocaust as Seen by its Perpetrators and Bystanders |others=(trans. by Deborah Burnstone) |publisher=Konecky & Konecky |isbn=978-1568521336 |page=302 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ACWKeRF49UYC&q=Wagner }}</ref>{{r|Klee2011}} Wagner was a deputy [[commander]] of [[Sobibor extermination camp]] in [[General Government|German-occupied Poland]], where 200,000-250,000 [[Jews]] were murdered in the camp's [[gas chamber]]s during [[Operation Reinhard]]{{fact|date=October 2024}}. Due to his brutality, he was known as "'''The Beast'''" and "'''Wolf'''".{{r|Klee1991}}<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://memoria.bn.br/pdf/030015/per030015_1978_00054.pdf |title=1978 Brazilian newspaper article}}</ref>
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