Odilo Globocnik, Hitler's Man in the East by Poprzeczny, Joseph -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Acknowledgments Introduction I

Ancestry and Early Life

A Carinthian Becomes a Viennese Pro-Hitler Activist

III

The Anschluss: March–April 1938

Day 1, Wednesday, 9 March Day 2, Thursday, 10 March Day 3, Friday, 11 March Day 4, Saturday, 12 March Day 5, Sunday, 13 March Day 6, Monday, 14 March Day 7, Tuesday, 15 March

Gauleiter of Vienna: 28 May 1938 to 30 January 1939

Appointment Vienna’s First Gauleiter Globocnik’s Viennese Financial Shenanigans and Dismissal The Making of a Soldier: Military Training

Lublin District’s SS- und Polizeiführer: 9 November 1939 to 17 September 1943

Lublin District Not Lithuania Globocnik’s Lublin District Executive Powers, Responsibilities, and Staff Eight Major Lublin Globocnikians

Ernst Lerch, Ever Loyal Disciple Hans Maubach, Adjutant Sepp Nemetz, Viennese Pal Hermann Julius Höﬂe, Mass Killer and Ghetto Cleanser Max Cichotski (aka Runhof), Loyal Outsider Georg Wippern, Keeper of the Vault Reinhold von Mohrenschildt, Roving Eastern Ethnic Cleanser Georg Michalsen: “Dull Witted and Ignorant” Apparatchik and Ghetto Cleanser Willy Natke: Batman Lorenz Hackenholt: The Gassing Expert

And Some Other Globocnikians… Key Staffers in Globocnik’s Lublin District-Based Business Empire SIPO-SD (Security Police and Security Service) and the Ordnungspolizei (the Order Police)

The First Solution

VII

Globocnik Moves to “Re-Germanize” Lublin District

1. The Final Solution of the Jewish Question: Globocnik’s Aktion Reinhardt

Adolf Eichmann: Supplier of Victims Rudolf Höss: Commandant of Auschwitz-Birkenau: Himmler’s Other Major Industrial-Style Mass Killer Joseph Goebbels: Hitler’s Chief Reich Propagandist Oswald Pohl: SS-Obergruppenführer—Chief of Wirtschaftsverwaltungshauptamt (WVHA) Viktor Brack: Key Hitler Chancellery Euthanasia Linkman Wilhelm Pfannenstiel: Roving Professor and Hygiene Expert Franz Stangl: Euthanasia Program Worker and Camp Killer Kurt Gerstein: The Tormented SS Mole

2. The Final Solution of the Slavic Question: The Zamosc Lands Expulsions, the Globocnik-von Mohrenschildt Demographic “Wall” of Germanic Eastern Settlement, and Generalplan Ost 3. The “Re-Germanization” of the East

VIII

Globocnik’s New Order

Lublin as a Germanic Eastern Outpost

Globocnik’s Lublin District “Gulag Archipelago”

Prison Camps: Sub-Camps, Work Centers, Building Work Battalions Globocnik’s Three “Terminal Stations”: Treblinka, Sobibor, and Belzec Majdanek

Majdanek’s Sub-Camps

Ghettos Prisons and Detention Jails Work Camps Transit or Ethnic Cleansing Camps

The Fate of Four Globocnik Victims

1. Ernst Krombach: From the Ruhr by Train to Death, via Izbica, in a Globocnik Killing Center 2. Jacob Frank: From Lublin’s 7 Lipowa Street Labor Camp, to Radom, and, via Auschwitz-Birkenau, to Natzweiler (Vaihingen), and Liberation in Dachau 3. Helena Krepinska: From Skierbieszow in the Zamosc Lands, via Auschwitz-Birkenau, to Escape from a Natzweiler Sub-Camp, Ebingen A.C., and Liberation in Lorraine (France) 4. Zoﬁa Krepinska: From Skierbieszow via the Zamosc Transit Camp to Sobienie-Jeziory

XII

Globocnik and Georg Wippern Ravage Jews’ Homes and Businesses

SS Man Heinrich Gustav Wilhelm Wied’s Revealing Lublin Investigations More Evidence of a Pilfering and Corruption Pandemic Amongst the Globocnikians and Their Underlings

XIII

Globocnik and Wippern Exposed as Plunderers of the Dead

Ost-Industrie GmbH (Osti) East Industry Ltd.

XIV

Globocnik’s Controversial Lublin Love Affair

Odilo and Irmgard Before the 10 April 1942 Zakopane Note Odilo and Irmgard After the 10 April 1942 Zakopane Note to Himmler The Zakopane Note and Subsequent Correspondence10

Himmler and Globus: A Double-Cross?

XVI

The Lublin District’s Demographic Upheavals, 1939–1944

1939—October/December 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944

XVII

Globocnik in Lublin: A General Assessment

XVIII

Back in Trieste: September 1943 to April 1945

XIX

Globocnik’s Last Journey: May 1945

Jakob Sporrenberg Captured in Oslo

Globocnik’s Capture and Death

Globocnik’s Capture and Death: The Seven Accounts

I. The Official Regimental History II. Regimental Diary and Field Reports III. Kenneth Hedley’s Malayan and Foreign Office Statements IV. Dr. Morris Leigh’s Statement to the Foreign Office V. The Guy Wheeler Report: May 1990, and Wheeler’s Statement to the Foreign Office VI. The Ramsay Report39 VII. The Gitta Sereny Account48

Notes

Introduction Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20

Works Cited

Primary Sources

Newspapers Documentary Sources Interviews Personal Narrative

List of Names and Terms

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