A Commandmant's View

I believe that this story does change my view on the Nazi officials that ran the death camps. I still believe that they should be held accountable for the crimes that they committed but that they were just doing their jobs and as soon as they were just programmed to think of the people as "cargo." In order for Stangl to cope with his horrific job he would also go to bed with a bottle of brandy and drink his problems away. He also tried to create a special place for himself such as gardens, new barracks, new kitchens, barbers, tailors, shoemakers, carpenters. This was obviously not a good tactic because he was drinking away his problems and separating himself from what was really going on. I believe that Stangl does regret what he did because later on, during a trip he went on there was a little girl and when they made eye contact he just felt for all of the innocent people that were walking to their deaths, and he was a part of it. Talking about it, I think, also stirred some of his emotions and made him feel guilty, for what he could have prevented.