Odilo Globocnik
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Globocnik in 1938 at the rank of SS-Standartenführer
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| Nickname(s) | Globus |
| Born |
21 April 1904 Trieste, Austria-Hungary (now Italy) |
| Died | 31 May 1945 (aged 41) Paternion, Austria |
| Allegiance |
 Nazi Germany
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| Service/branch |
 Schutzstaffel
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| Rank |
 Gruppenführer
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| Battles/wars | World War II |
| Awards | Iron Cross, Golden Party Badge, German Cross, Infantry Assault Badge, War Merit Cross |
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".
Odilo Globočnik was born on 21 April 1904, into a Germanised Slovene family from Tržič (Neumarktl), in the Imperial Free City of Trieste, then the capital of the Austrian Littoral administrative region of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (now in Italy). He was the second child of Franz Globočnik (also known as Globotschnig), a cavalry lieutenant in the Austro-Hungarian Army who came from a German-speaking Slovene family from the Upper Carniolan town of Tržič (German: Neumarktl; now in Slovenia). His father was unable to accumulate the money needed to get an officer's marriage permission and had to leave the service. As was the practice at this time, he was given a job in the Imperial and Royal Mail. His mother Anna, née Petschinka, was born in a mixed Czech-Banat Swabian family in Vršac (then Kingdom of Hungary, now in Serbia). In 1914, the family left Trieste for Cseklész, where Franz Globočnik was recalled to active duty after the outbreak of the First World War.
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