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Paul Blobel

1894 - 1951

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Paul Blobel (13 August 1894 – 7 June 1951) was a German Sicherheitsdienst (SD) commander and convicted war criminal who played a leading role in the Holocaust. He organised the Babi Yar massacre, the largest massacre of the Second World War at Babi Yar ravine in September 1941, pioneered the use of the gas van, and, following re-assignment, developed the gas chambers for the extermination camps. From late 1942 onwards, he led Sonderaktion 1005, wherein millions of bodies were exhumed at sites across Eastern Europe in an effort to erase all evidence of the Holocaust and specifically of Operation Reinhard. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Blobel has received more than 773,495 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Blobel is the 2,791st most popular politician (down from 2,649th in 2019), the 755th most popular biography from Germany (down from 732nd in 2019) and the 220th most popular German Politician.

Paul Blobel was a Nazi officer who was responsible for the Babi Yar massacre in September 1941.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Paul Blobel ranks 2,791 out of 15,577. Before him are Idomeneus of Crete, Mstislav I of Kiev, Telipinu, Hormizd IV, Maurice Quentin de La Tour, and Sancho IV of Castile. After him are Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, Philippa of England, Maria of Yugoslavia, Muhammad bin Saud, Postumus, and Cleopatra VI of Egypt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Paul Blobel ranks 38. Before him are Arthur Nebe, Norman Rockwell, Karl Böhm, Fyodor Tolbukhin, Otto Grotewohl, and Heinrich Lübke. After him are Josef von Sternberg, Claude Cahun, Nazli Sabri, Kim Hyong-jik, Alexander Dovzhenko, and Elisabeth of Romania. Among people deceased in 1951, Paul Blobel ranks 19. Before him are Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland, August Horch, Otto Ohlendorf, Maxim Litvinov, Alfred Hugenberg, and Sinclair Lewis. After him are Amélie of Orléans, Oswald Pohl, Zaifeng, Prince Chun, Harald Bohr, William Randolph Hearst, and Princess Milica of Montenegro.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Paul Blobel ranks 755 out of 6,142. Before him are Frank Farian (1941), Heinrich Lübke (1894), Max Beckmann (1884), Anna Leopoldovna (1718), Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern (1715), and Walther Wenck (1900). After him are Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick (1735), Ernst Chain (1906), Maria of Yugoslavia (1900), Bettina von Arnim (1785), Paul Breitner (1951), and Anselm Kiefer (1945).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Paul Blobel ranks 220. Before him are Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse (1868), Ernest, Elector of Saxony (1441), Franz Ziereis (1905), Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony (1867), Heinrich Lübke (1894), and Anna Leopoldovna (1718). After him are Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick (1735), Maria of Yugoslavia (1900), Herschel Grynszpan (1921), Frederick II, Elector of Saxony (1412), Princess Feodora of Leiningen (1807), and Otto III, Duke of Bavaria (1261).

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