After the end of the war, Wagner escaped from Europe and, after a few years, came to Brazil, where he was discovered only in 1978, due to the efforts put in by Simon Wiesenthal and Brazilian journalist Mario Chimanovitch, the latter of whom was also interviewed and provided a great insight into the strategical plan to capture Wagner.ĥWhen Wagner was arrested, the Federal Republic of Germany, Austria, Poland and Israel requested his extradition and these processes were judged by the Brazilian Supreme Court. Wagner exercised a great power at the camp, deciding on many occasions who was going to live and who would die immediately. So, the aim of the present paper is to present the case of Gustav Wagner, who secretly lived in Brazil and, after being arrested, had extradition processes against him judged by the Brazilian Supreme Court (STF).ĢThe analysis of his extradition processes led to the following research question: What were the motives that led the Brazilian Supreme Court to deny the extradition of a criminal who participated actively in the killing of 260,000 individuals?ģTo answer this question, a legal and historical study was conducted, using books, newspapers, the extradition processes, and interviews with some of the few Sobibor survivors.ĤSobibor was a small and secret extermination camp where Jews were killed. 1Few studies have addressed the cases of Nazi criminals that lived and were prosecuted in Brazil.
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