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Odilo Globocnik

Odilo Globočnik
Globocnik in 1938
Birth nameOdilo Lothar Ludwig Globocnik[1][a]
Nickname(s)Globus[3]
Born(1904-04-21)21 April 1904
Trieste, Austria-Hungary (now Italy)
Died31 May 1945(1945-05-31) (aged 41)
Paternion, Allied-occupied Austria
Cause of deathSuicide by cyanide poisoning
AllegianceAustria Republic of German-Austria
 Nazi Germany
Service / branch Schutzstaffel
RankGruppenführer
Battles / warsCarinthian War
World War II

Odilo Lothar Ludwig Globocnik[a] (21 April 1904 – 31 May 1945) was a Nazi Party official from Austria and a perpetrator of the Holocaust. A high-ranking leader of the SS, Globocnik played a leading role in Operation Reinhard, the organized murder of around one and a half million Jews, mostly of Polish origin, during the Holocaust in the Majdanek, Treblinka, Sobibór and Bełżec extermination camps.[4][5][6] Historian Michael Allen described him as "the vilest individual in the vilest organization ever known".[4] Globocnik killed himself shortly after his capture and detention by British soldiers.

  1. ^ Vollständiger Name nach Michael Wedekind: Nationalsozialistische Besatzungs- und Annexionspolitik in Norditalien 1943 bis 1945. München 2003, p. 446.
  2. ^ Friedrich, Klaus-Peter (2011). "Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas (Yearbook for the History of Eastern Europe)". Retrieved 13 November 2014.
  3. ^ Der Dienstkalender Heinrich Himmlers: 1941/42. (im Auftrag der Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg bearbeitet, kommentiert und eingeleitet von Peter Witte). Christians, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-7672-1329-X, p. 306.
  4. ^ a b Kranjc, Gregor Joseph (22 February 2013). To Walk with the Devil: Slovene Collaboration and Axis Occupation, 1941-1945. University of Toronto Press. p. 124. ISBN 978-1442613300.
  5. ^ Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy, Susan Zuccotti. Yale University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-300-09310-1, ISBN 978-0-300-09310-0. p. 287
  6. ^ Mazower, Mark (2008) Hitler's Empire, pages 382, 384–387, ISBN 978-1-59420-188-2.


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