Odilo Globocnik Research Paper

Odilo Globocnik

Odilo was the second child of Franz Globocnik. Odilo Globocnik was born on 21 April 1904 and died on 13 May 1945. Odilo Globocnik was born in Italy into a Germanised Slovene family. He died when he was just 41 years old. Odilo was born in Trieste, Austria-Hungary (Italy) and died in Paternion, Austria.

Odilo was an Austrian Nazi and later was a SS leader. He joined the Nazi Party in 1930. He became the radical leader. In 1933 he joined the SS and was assigned deputy district leader in Austria. Globocnik then volunteered for the Waffen-SS and worked as a non-commissioner officer. He was imprisoned for over a year for a number of political offenses, he may have even murdered the Jewish jeweller Futterweiss. Globocnik used a
huge number of dirty tricks, especially in financial matters. He was extremely successful. Globocnik was suspended as a Gauleiters and was later replaced by Josef Burckel. Globocnik was a brutal police commander who only wanted a terrible war on Polish Jewry but he carried out strong population expulsions in the Zamosc Lands, adopt the Lublin area. Odilo was chosen by Himmler to be the central figure in operation Rein hard. Odilo Globocnik was put in charge of SS men not subordinate to any higher authority and responsible only to Himmler. Odilo founded three death camps, as part as Aktion Rein hard and one combined work camp and one concentration camp in Majdanek Rowland 2

(Lublin). Globocnik got rewards from the killings of 1.7 million Jews. Globocnik carried out Himmler's orders with cruel order. By November of 1943 three death camps were dissolved. At the end of the war, Globocnik won in encasing arrest by returning to his hometown country in the mountains south of Klagenfurt. He was tracked down and arrested by British patrol in May 1945 and committed suicide by taking a cyanide pill.

Globocnik and a few others were in hiding in a shelter above Weissensee. The hut doors were locked and a massive number of women and men were forced to leave. The SS informer identified all of the prisoners by their name and their jobs in Trieste. Odilo Globocnik had refused all food and or liquids that were offered to him. Odilo Globocnik took a cyanide pill before the police could give him any punishment and committed suicide. Globocnik held his suicide letter under his tongue since his arrest. All of the men and women that were locked up in the hut with Globocnik identified his body as Odilo Globocnik.

Odilo Globocnik had a book called, “Hitler's Man in the East.” In the book Odilo Globocnik talked about how he and Heinrich Himmler were responsible for 1.5 million deaths in the three Polish death camps, and they were Treblinka, Sobibor, and Belzec. Globocnik was the first industrial-style killers. By the winter of 1943 almost all Jews were exterminated, and the only ones left were the skilled workers. Odilo Globocnik founded three death camps. The camps that he had founded were Treblinka, Sobibor, and Belzec. The SS men and Ukrainians that watched the camps killed a
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few dozen people daily.
The Treblinka camp was operated from June 1941 to July 1944. Treblinka was the final destination for a little over 2,500 Jews in Bransk. The Jews were taken from Treblinka by train on November 8, 1942. Treblinka was established in 1941 as a forced labor camp for the Jews that were accused of committing crimes. Treblinka tried to minimize the chances of the Jewish rebellion or resistance. Sobibor was the second death camp. The Sobibor death camp was near the Sobibor village, which is located in the eastern part of Lublin. The death camp had branches built in to make sure that no one on the outside of the fence could look in and see what was going on. When the Jews got to the camp they had to be separated by their gender and later were executed. Sobibor had three gas chambers and each one held 160 to 180 persons. A small train held the persons that had died. The Belzec death camp is located in South Eastern Poland. In the early 1940s, the Germans set up many of labor camps in and around Belzec. The Polish workers that were paid for their hard work were replaced by the Jews. The entire camp was not very big, it was pretty small compared to the other death camps. The outer fence of the Belzec death camp was camouflage with the tree branches. Camp two of the Belzec death camp was where the exterminations of the Jews happened, this included gas chambers and large rectangular burial pits. The camouflaged barbed wires were a path to the gas chambers. Belzec death camp was split up into two sections. The first section was the reception area and could hold only 10 wagons, and the second section was where all of the exterminations of the Jews happened. The two camps were separated by two camouflaged barbed wire
fences.

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Odilo Globocnik went to school then later attended a military school. Globocnik was able to attend the Army early while he was still getting his education at school. The war made his education come to an end so his family moved to Klagenfurt. He enrolled into an engineering vocational school. He eventually died on May 31, 1945 in Paternion, Austria.

Odilo Globocnik had many famous quotes. One of Odilo Globocnik quotes is, “He was a handsome brute in a coarse and heavy way, who, having been disgraced for corrupt practices as the first Nazi Gauleiter of Vienna, found, at thirty-five, his spiritual home as a conspiratorial dictator of the heart of Polish Jewry.” “Thank God that sow’s gone to the butcher.” “Gentlemen, if ever a generation will come after us which is so weak and soft-hearted that it doesn't understand our task, then indeed the whole of National Socialism has been in vain. To the contrary, in my opinion one should bury bronze plates on which it is recorded that we have had the courage to carry out this great and so necessary work.” “I know that you observe Christmas Day as you learned it at home. I do not observe it. However, as assistant director of this prison, I allow all the Catholics to observe freely and with some joy this day in this home.” “He was a handsome brute in a coarse and heavy way, who, having been disgraced for corrupt practices as the first Nazi Gauleiter of Vienna, found, at thirty-five, his spiritual home as a conspiratorial dictator of the heart of Polish Jewry.” “This is one of the most highly secret matters there are, perhaps the most secret. Anybody who speaks about it is shot dead immediately. Two talkative people died yesterday.”

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