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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 820,291 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Blobel is the 3,540th most popular politician (down from 2,783rd in 2019), the 960th most popular biography from Germany (down from 755th in 2019) and the 275th 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 3,540 out of 19,576. Before him are Louis I, Duke of Bavaria, Yusef of Morocco, Erhard Heiden, Abdoulaye Wade, Edvard Kardelj, and Carin Göring. After him are Emperor Kōtoku, Charles III of Navarre, Marie of Luxembourg, Queen of France, Othniel, João Bernardo Vieira, and Karl Lueger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Paul Blobel ranks 42. Before him are Nazli Sabri, Dashiell Hammett, Martha Graham, Alexander Dovzhenko, Josef von Sternberg, and Sergey Ilyushin. After him are Elisabeth of Romania, Norman Rockwell, Aino Aalto, Dimitri Tiomkin, Lothar von Richthofen, and V. V. Giri. Among people deceased in 1951, Paul Blobel ranks 22. Before him are Maxim Litvinov, Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland, Sinclair Lewis, Amélie of Orléans, Harald Bohr, and Zaifeng, Prince Chun. After him are Ivanoe Bonomi, Óscar Carmona, Oswald Pohl, William Randolph Hearst, Princess Milica of Montenegro, and Charles G. Dawes.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Paul Blobel ranks 960 out of 7,253. Before him are Kurt Eisner (1867), Günther Rall (1918), Ernst vom Rath (1909), Henry II, Duke of Austria (1107), Louis I, Duke of Bavaria (1173), and Erhard Heiden (1901). After him are Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (1557), Heinrich von Vietinghoff (1887), Tannhäuser (1205), Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (1868), Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795), and Albert III, Duke of Saxony (1443).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Paul Blobel ranks 275. Before him are Edith Frank (1900), Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp (1636), Ernst vom Rath (1909), Henry II, Duke of Austria (1107), Louis I, Duke of Bavaria (1173), and Erhard Heiden (1901). After him are Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (1557), Albert III, Duke of Saxony (1443), Conrad II of Italy (1074), Franz Ziereis (1905), Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf (1757), and Albert I, Duke of Bavaria (1336).

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