Odilo Globocnik
Odilo Globočnik | |
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Globočnik in 1938 | |
| Chief of Operation Reinhard | |
| In office October 1941 – October 1943 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 21 April 1904 |
| Died | 31 May 1945 (aged 41) |
| Cause of death | Suicide by cyanide poisoning |
| Party | Nazi Party |
| Signature | |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Republic of German-Austria Nazi Germany |
| Branch/service | Schutzstaffel |
| Rank | SS-Gruppenführer |
| Battles/wars | Carinthian War World War II |
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Odilo Lothar Ludwig Globočnik (21 April 1904 – 31 May 1945) was an Austrian Nazi Party official of Slovene-Croatian-Serbian 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.