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'''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 [[Staff sergeant]] (''[[Oberscharführer]]'').<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 200,000-250,000between two hundred thousand and two hundred fifty thousand [[History_of_the_Jews_in_Poland#World_War_II_and_the_destruction_of_Polish_Jewry_(1939–45)|Polish Jews]] and Gentile [[Poles (people)|Poles]]<ref>https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/polish-victims</ref>, all of which were murdered in the camp's [[gas chamber|gas chambers]]s during [[Operation Reinhard]]. 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>

==Biography==