Odilo globocnik biography of abraham

Who Was Odilo Globocnik?

While Auschwitz is probably the most enduring concentration camp name in Holocaust historiography, the Operation Reinhard camps (Treblinka, Belzec, and Sobibor), which operated for a far shorter period of time (early 1942 to late 1943) than Auschwitz, claimed the lives of 1.7 million human beings during their operation.

Odilo globocnik biography of abraham

The "success" of these camps can largely be attributed to Odilo Globocnik. Globocnik's name is hardly the first to come to mind when speaking of the Holocaust, but his crucial role in the events at the three Reinhard death camps, and later in Italy, makes him a pivotal figure of the period.

Globocnik was born in Trieste in 1904. The city was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which was dissolved at the end of World War I. Sovereignty over Trieste was awarded to Italy in the treaty of St. Germain.

The Globocnik family, which was of Slovenian, Hungarian, and German ancestry, moved to Klagenfurt, Austria less than five years after the