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Who started the Belzec camp?

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14y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

It was originally set up by Odilo Globocnik. Despite his somewhat odd name he was a senior Austrian SS officer and in command of the police in Nazi-occupied Poland. In May 1945, when British soldiers arrived to arrest him he took a cyanide capsule and died within minutes.

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