Word: stangl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years ago, a nattily dressed German climbed three flights of stairs to a shabby, document-cluttered flat in Vienna's Rudolfplatz, sat down to face Simon Wiesenthal. Said the visitor, an ex-Gestapo agent: "I know where you can find Franz Stangl-but it is going to cost...
...Stangl, the wartime chief of the Treblinka concentration camp, was obviously of interest to Wiesenthal, a man possessed with chasing down escaped Nazi war criminals. When Wiesenthal protested that his Jewish Documentation Center did not have anything like $25,000, the Gestapo veteran began to dicker: "How many people did Stangl murder?" Wiesenthal's answer: about 700,000, including 400,000 Jews and the rest Christians and assorted anti-Nazis. "All right," said the visitor. "I'll give you a special price. How about a penny a head? That makes...
...Even when finished, he keeps them for six months, until finally he can turn to a spectator and pronounce "Ist ja prima, nicht?" (First class, no?). Any really serious doubts that Antes' prodigious pace might be slackening were completely dispelled by his current exhibition at Munich's Stangl Gallery. To the delight of his growing following, Antes gave some of his imps a third dimension, produced a merry lot of polychromed bronzes and ceramics-as well as paintings and drawings. "I never waste an idea," he explained...