I do not believe that people in a position of power should be seen as inhumane and evil. They have to make tough, life changing choices that the every day person doesn't. Stangl in this case had to see thousands of people being killed each day, but he said that it was something that he got used to. We can not fully understand what these people go through until we walk in their shoes, then we can judge them. Stangl's responses do change my thoughts on Nazi officers. He obviously regretted what he was saying, he had trouble answering some of the questions because they were so hard to think about. So my opinion changed because now I realize that they are human beings who do regret things.

Stangl detached from what was going on around him by drinking. He decided that drinking every night would take away his worries at work and every night he went to bed with a bottle of brandy. I think this is a bad tactic because he could have drunk too much alcohol one night and might not have been able to make appropriate decisions the next day at work.

I think Stangl regrets what he did. He kept going back over the details of the bodies, how they were naked,bruised,blue and he seemed kind of in shock while he explained it because he kept repeating himself. He also had some trouble answering some questions. If he had felt okay with what he had done then he wouldn't have had a lot of trouble answering the questions.