Odilo Globocnik
Odilo Globočnik | |
|---|---|
| Chief of Operation Reinhard | |
| In office October 1941 – October 1943 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 21 April 1904 Trieste, Austria-Hungary (now Italy) |
| Died | 31 May 1945 (aged 41) Paternion, Allied-occupied Austria |
| Cause of death | Suicide by cyanide poisoning |
| Political party | Nazi Party |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Republic of German-Austria Nazi Germany |
| Branch/service | Schutzstaffel |
| Rank | SS-Gruppenführer |
| Battles/wars | Carinthian War World War II |
Odilo Lothar Ludwig Globocnik (21 April 1904 – 31 May 1945) was a Nazi Party official from Austria and a perpetrator of the Holocaust. A high-ranking member of the SS, Globocnik 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". Globocnik killed himself shortly after his capture and detention by British soldiers.