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Panorama: Gustav Wagner - Angel of Death

PANORAMA: GUSTAV WAGNER - ANGEL OF DEATH

Directed by Tom Bower
United Kingdom, 1979
Documentary

Synopsis

Gustav Wagner, the ’ Angel of Death’, who ran the Nazi extermination camp at Sobibor, talks for the first time about the gassing of a quarter of a million people, about torture and how the Vatican helped him escape from Europe to South America. Wagner insists that he was ’ just obeying orders.

Synopsis

Gustav Wagner, the ’ Angel of Death’, who ran the Nazi extermination camp at Sobibor, talks for the first time about the gassing of a quarter of a million people, about torture and how the Vatican helped him escape from Europe to South America. Wagner insists that he was ’ just obeying orders.