Odilo Globocnik
SS officer
Died when: 41 years 40 days (493 months)Star Sign: Taurus
Odilo Lothar Ludwig Globocnik (21 April 1904 – 31 May 1945) was an Austrian Nazi and a perpetrator of the Holocaust.He was an official of the Nazi Party and later a high-ranking leader of the SS.
Globocnik had a leading role in Operation Reinhard, the organized murder of around one and a half million Jews, of mostly Polish origin, during the Holocaust in the Majdanek, Treblinka, Sobibor and Belzec extermination camps.
Historian Michael Allen described him as "the vilest individual in the vilest organization ever known".Globocnik took his own life shortly after his capture and detention by British soldiers.
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