Odilo Globocnik - Bestial NAZI Torturer, Killer & Sadistic Deviant & his extremely Horrible Crimes. The 12th of March 1938. German troops cross the border with Austria and invade the country without firing a single shot. They are not met with armed resistance, but with cheers and flowers. While thousands of Austrians turn out to greet Adolf Hitler as he travels first to Linz and then on to Vienna, terrified Jews, leftists and other opponents of the Nazi Regime race towards the country’s borders, hoping to reach them before they are closed but most would become trapped in a rapidly nazifying Austria. In the weeks that follow, there is pogrom-like violence across the country. Austrian Nazis and others beat up, attack, and humiliate the Jews. They force them to scrub the streets, clean public toilets and perform humiliating exercises. Many decide to try to leave Austria and lines appear at consulates across the city of Vienna. One of the most fanatical Austrian Nazis who will become a key figure in the implementation of the Final Solution is Odilo Globocnik.
Odilo Lothar Ludwig Globocnik, the son of an Austrian Croat family of low-ranking officials, was born on the 21st of April 1904 in Trieste, then part of Austria-Hungary. Globocnik was a builder by profession and in 1920s he worked as a technician and construction supervisor. In 1931, he joined the Nazi party in Austria, engaged in several illegal activities for the Party and was imprisoned several times as a result.
In January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany and he fully intended to bring about an Austro-German union. However, Germany was not immediately militarily and diplomatically ready to carry out Hitler’s foreign policy goals. First, Hitler and other Nazi leaders focused on establishing a Nazi dictatorship. However, behind the scenes the Nazi leadership began planning territorial expansion and a European war almost as soon as they took power. Beginning in May 1933, the Austrian Nazis waged a propaganda and terror campaign which was encouraged and funded by Germany. The Nazi goal was to undermine the regime of the Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss by making it look incompetent. They staged disruptive protests and brawled with political opponents and the police. Austrian Nazis set off explosives and tear gas bombs in public places and Jewish-owned businesses.
One of the bombs was thrown on June 12, 1933 in Vienna into a jewelry shop of Norbert Futterweit, who was of Jewish descent. As a result of the bomb explosion Futterweit was instantly dead and there were several people badly injured at the store and on the street. Several historians believe that Globocnik was behind the attack. Futterweit’s murder was one of the attacks that led to the ban of the Austrian Nazi Party and its affiliates on June 19, 1933. However, although the Nazi movement became illegal in Austria, the Austrian Nazis continued to operate illegally within the country.
In August 1933, Globocnik was arrested for the first time, for his attempt to contact imprisoned Nazis in Klagenfurt. Between 1933 and 1935 he was arrested 4 times but served just over a year in jail because Heinrich Himmler, the German head of the SS, always intervened on his behalf. Himmler liked Globocnik, familiarly called him ‘Globus’ and recognized the value of this ruthless Austrian.
His fanatical devotion to the Nazi cause paid off for Globocnik, as he quickly climbed the ladder of the party apparatus in his native Austria and in 1936 he was appointed provincial Nazi Chief of the Carinthia region.
At that time, Globocnik was ridiculed by other Nazis for his Slavic surname, as the Nazis classified Slavs as sub-humans. However, senior Nazis such as Heinrich Himmler, defended him, saying that he was of Aryan origin and that his surname was a result of Slavicization.
In the spring of 1938 Adolf Hitler annexed the Federal State of Austria into the German Reich.
The Anschluss, as it became known, took place over three days between the 11th and 13th of March 1938.
On 24 May of the same year Globocnik was promoted to the post of regional Nazi party leader of Vienna.
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