This Date in History: November 19

 

Max Schobert, SS-Sturmbannführer, born December 25, 1904 in Würzburg, SS officer at Dachau, Flossenbürg and Buchenwald concentration camps, winner of the War Service Cross 1st Class, convicted of crimes against humanity, executed by hanging on November 19, 1948 at Landsberg am Lech, Germany; his last words were: “Comrades, farewell.  God be with you.  In the name of God I greet my relatives and the German people.”  (2,000 Quotes From Hitler’s 1,000-Year Reich)

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Ernst Lerch, SS-Sturmbannführer, born November 19, 1914 in Austria, adjutant to SS and Police Leader Odilo Globocnik in Lublin, Poland, participant in Operation Reinhard – the operation to kill the Jews of Poland, winner of the Iron Cross 1st Class, tried in Austria in 1972 but trial adjourned without verdict, died in 1997, on SS-Obergruppenführer Odilo Globocnik:

“Globocnik has two souls: one sincere and pleasing one; he really was sociable and fun loving, even witty, and then there was another, completely reversed aspect – the harshness and unbending behavior in his work. The orders, which came from above, were executed in each particular case; an order could not be discussed. He had the extraordinary ability, sometimes like that of a priest, to obey these orders.”  (2,000 Quotes From Hitler’s 1,000-Year Reich)