10 Most-Evil Nazis You’ve Never Even Heard Of

2. Odilo Globocnik - A Man Described By One Historian As "The Vilest Individual In The Vilest Organisation Ever Known"

Described by historian Michael Allen as "the vilest individual in the vilest organisation ever known", SS leader and Austrian Nazi Odilo Globocnik committed war crime after war crime during the Second World War. One of the leading operators in "Operation Reinhard", Globocnik helped to oversee the murder of more than a million Jewish Poles during the Holocaust by having them rounded up and then transferred to the extermination camps at Majdanek, Treblinka, Sobibor and Belzec. He also had every single one of the 500,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto - which contained the largest Jewish community in Europe - liquidated, before than exterminating all those in the Bialystok Ghetto due to the fact they had resisted Nazi occupation.

He was a keen believer in Nazi racial superiority and wanted to ethnically cleanse Eastern Europe, so he implemented and supervised the Lublin reservation in Poland. Some 95,000 Jews were deported to this area and made to work in forced-labour camps.

While talking about the policy in February 1940, Globocnik explained:

"The evacuated Jews should feed themselves and be supported by their countrymen, as these Jews have enough (food). "If this does not succeed, one should let them starve."

Supposedly Globocnik also suggested the idea of an extermination-camp-style method for institutionalised murder to Heinrich Himmler in October 1941, and it was here that he was given the order to be able to begin his "euthanasia" policy. He was the first to use the gas-chamber method to kill Jews at Belzec, and this policy was then moved to all extermination camps.

Globocnik retreated into Austria when the Allied forces were advancing through Germany in May 1945, but was captured by British soldiers. However, after being imprisoned and interrogated, he bit into a cyanide capsule and committed suicide.

Although his body was taken to be buried in a local churchyard, the priest refused to have "the body of such a man" resting in consecrated ground so he was instead placed in a grave outside the premises.