80 years after the gas chamber: the “most evil Nazi” who created a gas chamber and the first victims from Ukraine

80 years ago, such a killing machine was put into operation in the Beljek death camp. The first person to die was part of a Jewish contingent in the Ukrainian city of Lviv. The story of Odillo Globonic, author of the fearsome method. It's a terrible end. And the priest who denied her funeral was a priest who denied her funeral

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Germany's surrender took place almost a month ago. Nazi soldiers and officers fled like rats across Europe. However, despite the vastness of the continent, there were not many places to go. Everyone was hunger and destruction. British patrols have found Nazi soldiers at the foot of the Alps. They tried to impersonate a peasant, but they did not deceive anyone. When questioned already in the barracks, they confessed that they were members of the defeated army, but refused to occupy the post pertinent. The youngest gave advice to the arrests so that they could be trusted. Where they found them, at higher altitudes, deeper in the mountains, in a well-equipped cabin, they were able to find a prominent Nazi. They didn't know their identity, but they knew they were important people because of the way they were dressed, their comfort despite the circumstances, someone sent them to bring the groceries. The British found the site without any problems and arrested 7 people. Six of them dressed as officers, and the rest presented themselves as an important German merchant. He had a warm jacket, leather pants, and expensive boots. Upon arriving at the detachment, the other six were placed in the dungeon, and the merchant was free to move around the place. He was not a businessman until someone thought that he recognized him. The man was a murderer. When he walked past him, he was already turning his back on a trap to determine his identity. With a slight German accent and an imposing voice, he said, “Globocnik!” The short, overweight man turned his head as if he were answering a phone call. As soon as he realized the almost reflected act, he tried to continue as if nothing had happened. The British commander ordered him to be placed in the safest prison. They found someone responsible for the Nazi death camp. However, during childbirth, Odilo Globocnik helped himself with his hands by putting something in his mouth with a quick movement and tightly closing his jaws. Almost immediately she fell and shook to the ground. Her skin turned purple. He asked for a cyanide pill.

Some have called him “the most evil person in the most evil organization that ever existed.” A despicable being with a unique desire to kill. An inexhaustible murderous appetite.Odilo Globocnik boasted that he was the Nazi who eliminated most of the Jews.It was he who was responsible for the construction and operation of death camps . Beljets, Sobibor and Treblinka.

80 years ago, on March 17, 1942, hundreds of Ukrainian Jews were admitted for the first time to the gas chambers of the Belzeg camp in Polish territory. Of course, they were not the first Jews to be killed by the Nazis, nor were they the first Jews to emit gas. However, there were people who started a new system, a system that completed a killing machine, and a system that turned it into an industry.

Shoa had a different stage. In each of them, the Nazis gave the homicidal profession greater complexity and effectiveness.Suddenly, it was not a decision to build a camp to eliminate all members of the ethnic group. annihilating decision existed before, and it has intensified and expanded over time. However, the ways in which this genocide plan was implemented varied.

In the face of every large-scale massacre, logistical and moral problems have arisen for the soldiers who committed the crime. The authorities were drawing up a plan to make these terrorist mechanisms more effective.

The Holocaust process has been out of the ordinary. It was long and complicated. As some believe, Hitler woke up one day and issued an order to kill all members of various ethnic groups, and it did not happen that the plan came into effect. There were several phases. The great and systematized massacre of the last years of World War II began much earlier, and policies began increasingly radical, increasingly bloody, arbitrary and radical actions. According to the slogan of Nikolaus Wachsmann of KL, more than 600,000 Eastern European Jews were already dead when the Globonic-run death camp was opened. History of Nazi concentration camps. As early as 1941, the Soviet invasion caused a huge number of exiles and murders to try different solutions.

The most daring, immoral and ambitious person came to the rescue and put him in the front row. In the second half of 1941, Himmler issued orders to Globocnik. It was a secret plan they called Action Reinhardt, Operation Reinhardt. They will no longer build concentration camps and slave labor camps. It was time to give more examples. Extermination camps, places where people were taken to be killed. They had very little labor; only 25-30 executives were able to maintain order and ensure that the different stages of the journey were fulfilled. The rest of the dirty household chores were Sondercommandos . Prisoners had to put people in gas chambers, remove corpses, put up cremation, and stack items. In most cases, these also die and are replaced by others.

People got on a crowded train. Cattle wagons that were unable to breathe due to overcrowding and bad smell. A lot of people didn't come down alive. When they arrived, when the doors of the formation opened and the transparent light and fresh air came in (or froze depending on the time of year), the prisoners believed it was the worst happened. What they didn't know was that the choice was made before they got on the train and they were already doomed. Inside the camp, there was a station for newcomers. Normal pantomime and simulated routines reassured them. A place to leave your belongings, a line to wait, and a place to take off your clothes to bathe. With fake posters and watches, the station wanted to show hospitality. But after a few minutes, everyone would die. None of the people who got out of the car were alive there for more than a few hours.

The Nazis tried to shoot the victims. It was a slow and morally expensive procedure for soldiers who had to shoot hundreds of defenseless people, children, women, and the elderly. They also built trucks to poison people who climbed into carbon dioxide. Then they were buried in mass graves, but because of the gas, the corpses came out to the surface.

Globocnik was a corrupt man who was cast as a public servant, but his audacity, lack of vigilance, and closeness to Himmler restored his power.And he was willing to do all the work necessary so as not to lose it. When he was ordered to create this camp, he told his subordinates: “The German SS Führer has given us a new task. I am very grateful that we can be sure that our wishes can come true immediately.”

It was he who coordinated and supervised the construction of the death camp. There was no crematorium in Belzeg, but the gas chamber was not. The method chosen by Globocnik was the carbon dioxide method. Your men have killed thousands of Polish and Russian Jews every hour. After several months of operation, he issued an order to create a new gas chamber, in which 2000 people each entered. An estimated 600,000 Jews were killed in Belzeg alone.

When the train arrived crowded and traffic was cut off, Globocnik asked for more. Deportation alone wasn't enough. He was complaining. He said they had a much greater death force. At one point, he faced Rudolf Hoes, Auschwitz commander.

Auschwitz was a slave labor camp, and it was a concentration camp that became one of the exterminations with the addition of the Treblinka. However, this mixed nature has changed its functioning. Höss and Globocnik fought openly in front of their superiors to admit who killed most people. They accused each other of being inefficient and messy. Höss led him to use Zyklon B, a gas that his rival killed in the Auschwitz room. However, Globocnik still preferred carbon monoxide.

Globoknick killed more people by destroying the Polish ghetto. In 1943, Belzeg was the first death camp to be dismantled. They pulled the remains out of the pit and created a huge wooden tree. They then built the structure on top of it to break down and clarify the evidence.

Globocnik and his men continued to move together until the end of the war. Next to him they found him in the Alps. They participated in Italy in the last months of the competition.

Decades after Globocnik died, it was said that he did not commit suicide. It was said that everything was a parody organized by the United States that hid the genocide. It is well known that the great powers recruited Nazis during the post-war period and used them to their advantage. They were mainly important scientists (e.g. von Braun) or intelligence agents with a wealth of information. However, Globocnik would not have been acceptable and would not have been justified in the slightest. Some investigators said that the former Belzek and Sobibor commander lived in the United States. They even brandished secret documents to prove it. At the turn of the new millennium, German journalist and writer Gitta Sereny showed that this is an unfounded legend and that Odilo Globocnik committed suicide with Austrian cyanide pills.

Before we finish, we will return to May 31, 1945, the day of his death at the Parthenon Castle in Austria, where the British barracks used to be. British soldiers moved their bodies to the village church, with a small cemetery in the background. The local parish priest refused when he learned who he wanted to ask there. He said that the cemetery was a sacred place and that the dead who lived did not deserve the company.

Odilo Globocnik was buried in an open field in front of the church walls without a ritual.

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