Dewey Decimal943.086092
SynopsisA key player in the annexation of Austria in 1938, Odilo Globocnik was made Gauleiter of Vienna for seven months until the Nazi party forced him to resign because of his abrasive manner, murky financial dealings, and blatant incompetence. Due to a close personal relationship with Heinrich Himmler, however, Globocnik was named to the seminal post of Lubin SS and Police Chief from 1939 to 1943, where he built and was in charge of some 150 camps, including the Majdanek camp and the killing centres of Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka., Odilo Globocnik is hardly the first name to come to mind when speaking of the Holocaust, but his crucial role in the events of the three Reinhard death camps (Treblinka, Belzec and Sobibor), and later in Italy, makes him a pivotal figure of the period.