Deaths on May 31

Odilo Globocnik

Died on May 31, 1945

Odilo Globocnik, Italian-Austrian SS officer (b. 1904)

Odilo Lothar Ludwig Globocnik (21 April 1904 – 31 May 1945) was an Austrian Nazi and a Holocaust perpetrator. He was an official of the Nazi Party and later a high-ranking leader of the SS. He had a leading role in Operation Reinhard, which organized the murder of around one and a half million mostly Polish Jews during the Holocaust in the Majdanek, Treblinka, Sobibor and Belzec extermination camps. Historian Michael Allen described him as "the vilest individual in the vilest organization ever known". Globocnik died by suicide shortly after being captured and detained by British soldiers.

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Events on 1945

23 Feb

Manila
World War II: The capital of the Philippines, Manila, is liberated by combined Filipino and American forces.
23 Feb

History of Poland (1939-45)
World War II: Capitulation of German garrison in Poznań. The city is liberated by Soviet and Polish forces.
25 Feb

Turkey
World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.
9 Mar

Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
World War II: The first nocturnal incendiary attack on Tokyo inflicts damage comparable to that inflicted on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki five months later.
30 Aug

Douglas MacArthur
The Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.

Deaths on May 31

Odilo Globocnik

Died on May 31, 1945

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Events on 1945

Manila

History of Poland (1939-45)

Turkey

Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Douglas MacArthur