Odilo Globocnik

After leaving Lublin, Globocnik became Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer in the Adriatic Littoral. He transferred Operation Reinhard personnel there, continued the arrests and deportations of Jews and coordinated brutal repression against partisans and civilians.

State of the evidence

Documented

Under the police apparatus headed by Globocnik, Risiera di San Sabba became a place of detention, torture, murder and transit to camps. Italian and German institutional sources link his command system to this centre of repression.

State of the evidence

Documented

Attribution

Command responsibility

Located and captured in Carinthia by British forces, Globocnik committed suicide using cyanide before extensive interrogation and before any post-war criminal proceedings.

State of the evidence

Well documented

Attribution

Accused

Himmler entrusted Globocnik with implementing Operation Reinhard. From Lublin, he directed the apparatus responsible for deportation, exploitation and mass murder of Jews in the General Government; the USHMM estimates that approximately 1.7 million Jews were killed in the killing centres and shootings associated with the operation.

State of the evidence

Documented

Attribution

Directly implicated

The system under Globocnik included the inspectorate headed by Christian Wirth and the three principal killing centres of Operation Reinhard: Bełżec, Sobibór and Treblinka. Their central purpose was the industrialised murder of deportees.

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Documented

Attribution

Command responsibility

Globocnik's final report listed among Operation Reinhard's objectives the seizure of clothing, currencies, jewellery, real estate and other assets belonging to Jewish victims, alongside their exploitation and subsequent murder.

State of the evidence

Documented

Globocnik jointly directed the forces responsible for expulsions in the Zamość region. Approximately 110,000 people were expelled from some 300 villages; thousands were sent into forced labour or camps, and children were selected for Germanisation.

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Documented

Promoted to Gauleiter of Vienna following the Anschluss, Globocnik was dismissed in January 1939 following allegations of embezzlement of public funds and serious financial irregularities.

Attribution

Directly implicated

Globocnik helped build the Austrian Nazi network while the movement was banned, became a senior figure in the Austrian NSDAP and played a role in its rise before the Anschluss of 1938.

State of the evidence

Well documented

Attribution

Directly implicated