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Austrian-German SS officer, SS-Group Leader and Lieutenant General of the Police, temporary leader of Operation Reinhardt (1904–1945)

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Key facts

Born
( 1904-04-21 ) 21 April 1904, Trieste , Austria-Hungary (now Italy )
Died
31 May 1945 (1945-05-31) (aged 41), Paternion , Allied-occupied Austria
Cause of death
Suicide by cyanide poisoning
Party
Nazi Party
Allegiance
Republic of German-Austria , Nazi Germany
Branch service
Schutzstaffel
Rank
SS-Gruppenführer
Battles wars
Carinthian War , World War II

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
male
Citizenship
Cisleithania
Place of birth
Trieste
Place of death
Paternion
Position held
Gauleiter
Political party
Nazi Party
Languages spoken
Italian
Religion
gottgläubig
Conflict
World War II
Military branch
Schutzstaffel
Military rank
SS-Gruppenführer
Image
Bundesarchiv Bild 146-2007-0188, Odilo Globocnik.jpg
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name in native language
Odilo Globočnik
birth name
Odilo Lotario Globocnik
Commons category
Odilo Globocnik
date of birth
1904-04-21
date of death
1945-05-31
manner of death
Suicide
nickname
Globus
cause of death
cyanide poisoning
allegiance
Nazi Germany
member of
Schutzstaffel
start of work period
1934-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview

Odilo Lothar Ludwig Globočnik (21 April 1904 – 31 May 1945) was a Nazi Party official 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.

Early life

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