Odilo Globocnik

Austrian Nazi, SS officer, and Holocaust perpetrator (1904–1945)

Born
1904
Odilo Lothar Ludwig Globočnik was an Austrian Nazi Party official of Slovene-Croatian descent and a perpetrator of the Holocaust. A high-ranking member of the SS, Globočnik was the leader of 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. Historian Michael Allen described him as "the vilest individual in the vilest organization ever known". Globočnik killed himself shortly after his capture and detention by British soldiers.

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