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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.
May 9, 2024 · 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.
Sep 7, 2023 · Amon Leopold Göth was the commandant of the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp in Płaszów in Poland for most of the camp's existence during World War II.
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...
Aug 22, 2020 · Amon Goeth or Göth (1908-1946) was an Austrian-born Schutzstaffel (SS) officer who commanded the Plaszow labour camp near Krakow, Poland. His fanatical brutality and relationship with Oskar Schindler was depicted in the 1993 film Schindler’s List.
Amon Göth, an SS commandant from Vienna, was the camp commandant at this point. He was sadistic in his treatment and killing of prisoners. "Witnesses say he would never start his breakfast without shooting at least one person." On Göth's first day as camp commandant, he killed two Jewish policemen and made every camp inmate watch.
Oct 9, 2016 · Prisoner Joseph Bau (Prisoner Number 69084) described Göth the commandant of Plaszow: A hideous and terrible monster who reached the height of more than two meters. He set the fear of death in people, terrified masses and accounted for much chattering of teeth.
Dec 3, 2008 · Monika Hertwig, daughter of Nazi Amon Goeth, has spent her life dealing with her father's murderous legacy. James Moll's documentary, Inheritance, tells the story of how Hertwig has reached out...
Sep 19, 2013 · The Plaszów concentration and forced labor camp is forever linked to the name of its brutal commandant, SS Hauptsturmführer Amon Goeth. In March 1943, Oskar Schindler persuaded Goeth to allow him to build his own sub-camp near his Emalia factory so that his Jewish workers would not be subjected to Goeth’s unpredictable brutality and random ...
