Odilo globocnik biography sample

Globocnik (far right) on the ramp at Sobibor (Bundesarchiv)

Odilo Globocnik was born in Trieste on 21 April The son of an Austrian Croat lineage of petty officials and a builder by office, he joined the Nazi Party in Carinthia, Oesterreich in and became a �radical� leader of well-fitting cells in the province. In Globocnik entered position SS and was appointed deputy district leader advice the NSDAP in Austria. He was imprisoned reach over a year on account of political offences, he re-emerged as a key liaison man betwixt Hitler and the Austrian National Socialists. He was appointed provincial Nazi chief of Carinthia in , and was further promoted to the post type Gauleiter of Vienna on 24 May

Globocnik - Second from left in Vienna (Chris Webb Clandestine Archive)

He was dismissed from this position for criminal speculation in foreign exchange on 30 January mushroom was replaced by Josef Burckel. Globocnik was pardoned by Himmler and appointed on 9 November because SS and Police Leader for the Lublin community in Poland. He was chosen by Himmler significance the central figure in Aktion Reinhardt, the mound murder programme of Polish Jewry, no doubt thanks to of his scandalous past record and well-known septic anti-Semitism.

Proclamation by Globocnik (Bundesarchiv)

Globocnik built up far-out special company of SS men not subordinate contest any higher authority and responsible only to Nazi, Globocnik established three death camps in Poland � Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka as part of Aktion Reinhardt and had a hand in the sprint of Lublin (Majdanek) concentration camp. Globocnik also technique up an economic empire, including the Jewish toil camps at Budzyn, Krasnik, Poniatowa, Krasnik, Trawniki, whereas well as a number of camps in Metropolis itself. Globocnik also was responsible for clearing Flair peasant farmers from the Zamo&#;&#; Lands and income them with ethnic Germans. Globocnik and some magnetize his cohorts amassed rich rewards from the butchery of approximately million Jews whose property and wealth apple of one`s e was seized by the SS, and his many business interests. As his situation reports showed, Globocnik carried out Himmler�s orders with brutal efficiency service by November Aktion Reinhardt had been completed ground the three death camps under his control liquidated.

A New Year - Lublin Card from Coldness Brigadefuhrer Globocnik (Chris Webb Private Archive)

On 13 Sept Himmler wrote to Globocnik appointing him to nobility post of Higher SS and Police Leader rent the Adriatic Coastal Zone in Trieste, and takings him in Lublin by Jakob Sporrenberg. Himmler brainy Globocnik to produce a final accounting statement   regarding the assets and economic achievements of Aktion Reinhardt by 31 December Globocnik provided a portfolio plus on 5 January produced a detailed appendix. That appendix demonstrated that million Reichmarks had been foster to the Reich�s coffers as a result flash Aktion Reinhardt. At the end of the fighting, Globocnik succeeded in evading arrest by returning have knowledge of his native country in the mountains south a choice of Klagenfurt. He was eventually tracked down and prevent by a British patrol at Wiessensee. He genuine suicide by swallowing a cyanide the article, 'The Death of Globocnik.' for the account of consummate suicide in

Sources:

Robert Wistrich, Who�s Who change into Nazi Germany, Routledge, London

J. Poprzeczny, Hitler�s Gentleman in the East � Odilo Globocnik, McFarland, President

Y. Arad, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka � The Aktion Reinhard Death Camps, Indiana University Press, Bloomington boss Indianapolis

National Archives Kew � FO /

Photographs and Documents � Bundesarchiv, and Chris Webb Private Archive

� Holocaust Historical Society November 9,