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Amon Leopold Göth (German: ⓘ; alternative spelling Goeth; 11 December 1908 – 13 September 1946) was an Austrian SS functionary and war criminal. He served as the commandant of the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp in Płaszów in German-occupied Poland for most of the camp's existence during World War II .
Mar 28, 2023 · The commandant of the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, Amon Goeth was responsible for the deaths of 10,000 people during the Holocaust.
5 days ago · Amon Göth (born December 11, 1908, Vienna, Austria—died September 13, 1946, Kraków, Poland) was an Austrian Nazi officer who was commandant of Plaszow concentration camp in Poland.
Schindler convinced SS-Hauptsturmführer Amon Göth, commandant of the nearby Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, to allow him to move his factory to Brněnec/Brünnlitz in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, thus sparing his workers from almost certain death in the gas chambers of Auschwitz.
Oct 2, 2013 · My Nazi grandfather, Amon Goeth, would have shot me. Jennifer Teege was shocked to discover her grandfather was a Nazi concentration camp commandant. Her mother never told her, and as a child...
Amon Leopold Göth was an Austrian SS officer and commandant of the Płaszów concentration camp, infamous for his cruelty and direct involvement in the Holocaust.He was responsible for the deaths of thousands of Jews, Poles, and others during World War II.Göth's brutality became widely known through eyewitness testimonies and his portrayal in the film Schindler’s List, though certain ...
Schindler’s List shows the catastrophe of the Plaszow camp and the Holocaust from the point of view of the perpetrators instead of the victims. Much of the film focuses on the conflict between Oskar Schindler and Amon Goeth, the brutal commandant of the Plaszow camp.
SS-Untersturmführer (second lieutenant) Amon Göth arrives in Kraków to oversee construction of the Płaszów concentration camp. When the camp is ready, he orders the ghetto liquidated: two thousand Jews are transported to Płaszów, and two thousand others are killed in the streets by the SS.
Amon Göth (11 Dec. 1908 – 13 Sept. 1946), SS Hauptsturmführer, was in charge of constructing and then heading the Płaszów Camp. As such, he ended up getting prosecuted by the SS-internal court system for looting inmate property and selling it on the black market.
Jul 25, 2012 · Amon Leopold Goeth, like many Nazi criminals, was born in Vienna, on December 11,1908. Before the war he was a modest clerk, with a passion for literature. He was a ticking time bomb.
