Odilo Globočnik

Austrian-German SS officer, SS-Group Leader and Lieutenant General of the Police, temporary leader of Operation Reinhardt (1904-1945) · Austria · On the map · Politicians · Died at 41

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Odilo Globočnik led Operation Reinhard, the organized murder of around one and a half million Jews in the Majdanek, Treblinka, Sobibór and Bełżec extermination camps. A high-ranking SS official, he was called by one historian "the vilest individual in the vilest organization ever known".

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1945Died31 May 1945German Cross in GoldAwardGerman Cross in SilverAward1944Bandit-warfare Badge in SilverAwardIron Cross 1st ClassAward1942“This is one of the most highly secret matters there are, perhaps the most secret. Anybody who speaks about it is shot dead immediately. Two talkative people died yesterday.”In their words17 August 1942To Kurt Gerstein, 17 August 1942. Quoted in "Genocide, Critical Issues of the Holocaust" - Page 455 - by Alex Grobman, Daniel Landes, SybilRead the whole statement

War Merit Cross 1st Class with SwordsAward1940Iron Cross 2nd ClassAward1939Golden Party BadgeAward1904Born21 April 1904

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Bundesarchiv Bild 146-2007-0188, Odilo Globocnik

Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1990-087-10, Wolhynien-Umsiedlung

Bundesarchiv Bild 183-2004-0920-500, Wien, Gauleiter Odilio Globocnik

Bundesarchiv Bild 183-S41858, Odilo Globocnik

Einsatz Reinhardt Odilo Globocnik 15 grudnia 1943

Globocnik at Wien

Nacistični funkcionarji v operacijski coni Jadransko primorje v Trstu

Nemška uprava operacijske cone Jadransko primorje

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Odilo Globočnik

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Thank God that sow's gone to the butcher.
About the death of Reinhard Heydrich. Quoted in "The Order of the Death's Head: The Story of Hitler's SS" - Page 166 - by Heinz Hohne -, Own words
I know that you observe Christmas Day as you learned it at home. I do not observe it.
Quoted in "In Tito's Death Marches and Extermination Camps" - Page 163 - by Joseph Hecimovic, John Prcela - 1962., Own words

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Awards

German Cross in Silver1945

German Cross in Gold1945

Iron Cross 1st Class1944

Bandit-warfare Badge in Silver1944

War Merit Cross 1st Class with Swords1942

Iron Cross 2nd Class1940

Golden Party Badge1939

Order of the Crown of King Zvonimir

Anschluss Medal

Sudetenland Medal

Nazi Party Long Service Award in Bronze

Nazi Party Long Service Award in Silver

War Merit Cross 2nd Class with Swords

About this person

Odilo Lothar Ludwig Globočnik was born 21 April 1904 and became a Nazi Party official and member of the SS. During the Holocaust, he directed the systematic killing of mostly Polish Jews across four extermination camps. His command of this machinery of mass death marked him as among the most culpable architects of genocide. On 31 May 1945, shortly after British soldiers captured and detained him, Globočnik killed himself.

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Austria