Odilo Globocnik

Identifier
990004698870304146
Language of Description
English
Dates
1 Jan 1938 - 31 Dec 1961
Languages
  • German
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

13 pages

Envelope 8/5 ; microfilm reel 066; Frames 720-733.

Scope and Content

"Odilo Lotario Globocnik or Odilo Lothar Ludwig Globocnik, also Germanised as Globotschnig(g) (21 April 1904 – 31 May 1945), nicknamed Globus, was a prominent Austrian Nazi and later an SS leader. As associate of Adolf Eichmann, he had a leading role in Operation Reinhard, which saw the murder of over one million mostly Polish Jews during the Holocaust in Nazi extermination camps Majdanek, Treblinka, Sobibor and Belzec. Historian Michael Allen described him as "the vilest individual in the vilest organization ever known"--wikipedia (viewed 7.11.2016).

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Note(s)

  • Detailed dates of material: 1938 - 1939, 1950, 1961.

  • Title viewed 04/02/2019

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