"You can't exactly try a corpse."

Pope Stephen VI would disagree.

Fun fact. The Sobibor uprising was led by a Russian lieutenant who successfully made it back to Russia, but he was immediately imprisoned.  His crime…..being captured by the Germans.

My grandfather escaped from Treblinka on the back of a truck - someone helped him get out. He was 15 and his parents and sister had been sent straight to the gas chambers and he had been put to work. Made his way to Peru where he lived out the rest of his days.

The fact that he's just another bureaucrat makes it even more horrifying.  
Evil should have a "tell".

I'm Slovene. I knew about Globočnik before as his surname drew my attention. I've done some research on him,but nothing serious, so this piece is most wellcome.l thank gods that the family despite the surname didn't consider them Slovenes.

Odilo Globočnik is a character in the Robert Harris alternative history novel "Fatherland". The book being set in a 1960s Nazi Germany Globočnik has become known as "Globus". He is nicknamed "The Submarine" in the book after his real life exploits where he murdered his early victims using the exhaust gasses of a U-Boat engine. Did he really take cyanide hidden in a tooth? Or did the army let some of the lads with a score to settle beat him to death? Honestly I hope it was the second one.

The Romans once said: "nomen est omen" (the name is a sign), and that holds true for Globočnik. His surname in Slovene literary means "man of the abyss".

In 2018, Slovenian theatre director Dragan Živadinov created and directed a theatre performance titled Odilo. Zatemnitev. Oratorij. (Odilo. Obscuration. Oratorio.) about Globočnik, his many crimes and his complicated place in Slovenian history. The theatre piece was devised as a ritualistic killing of Globočnik's name, and the obstruction of the resurrection of his acts, with a firm anti-Nazi stance.

I don’t understand how the Italian camp hasn’t been subject to other documentaries or films. I never knew about it, it’s fascinating.

I can’t remember where I saw a situation before... but recently I came across something that made me think "the only reason we haven’t heard about this, is because there was nobody left alive to tell the tale."
This is a similar situation.

The fact that a "man" with the heritage of Globocnik ended up becoming a fanatical Nazi is incredibly ironic; but a fact that monsters like this were able to be forgotten is why I'm so glad that channels like Into the Shadows exist.

It's unbelievable and unforgivable that a horrendouly evil monster like this could ever have been forgotten!! 😱😱 Thank you for bringing this monster back into the light. We need to remember this, so it can NEVER happen again!!! There's a special place in hell for evil people like this!

Simon, you are invaluable as a source of history. Well done.

I've learned so much from watching videos from the Whistleverse.
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Good that you cover him. He kind of rivals Heydrich and Himmler with how much of an absolute asshole he was. You should do a video on Christian Wirth too, would probably get age restricted though.

Odilo’s house in Lublin still stands with all its grandeur. He would throw big wild parties there.

“The office manager of genocide” is way scarier to me because he’s the reason it can happen

Simon this one hit hard. I had heard of him but only cause I had gone on some deep dives.
But your last lines in this video I think more people need to understand.
He wasn't cartoon evil he is the "banality of evil"  a term used to much the wrong way. After all he was just doing his job.
It is so hard to believe what humans are willing to do to each other. And sadly I think the lessons this taught us are being quickly forgotten. That scares me more then anything.

Funny how much they "believe in the cause", but when faced with consequences, they show how much of a coward they really are.

Globočnik is a decidedly Slovenian surname, so his father must have been Slovenian. As a Slovenian myself I never heard of him, based on who he was I can't say I'm surprised, so this video was very interesting.