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Amon Göth. Amon Leopold Göth ( German: [ˈɡøːt] ⓘ; 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 · Amon Goeth’s Rise Through The Nazi Ranks. Amon Leopold Goeth (sometimes spelled Amon Göth) was born on December 11, 1908, in Vienna, Austria. He was the only child of Berta Schwendt Goeth and Amon Franz Goeth, a Catholic couple who made a name for themselves in the publishing industry.
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Amon Göth (born December 11, 1908, Vienna, Austria—died September 13, 1946, Kraków, Poland) Austrian Nazi officer who was commandant of Plaszow concentration camp in Poland. Decades after his execution for war crimes, Göth became widely known as the principal adversary of Oskar Schindler, the industrialist who shielded a group of Jews ...
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Oct 2, 2013 · It was very distressing to know that Amon Goeth and I are genetically linked. I feel part of it, but still there is a distance - which is a difference between me and my mother, because she grew up ...
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Sep 13, 2021 · On 13 September 1946, former commander of the Krakow - Plaszow concentration camp, war criminal Amon Göth, was executed in the Montelupich prison near Plaszów. Amon Göth tried to conform to the model of the perfect Nazi. From 1925 he was a member of the Austrian Nazi Party, and had held extreme right-wing views since he was 16.
Aug 22, 2020 · Amon Goeth or Göth (1908-1946) was an Austrian-born Schutzstaffel 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. Goeth was born in Vienna to affluent parents who made their wealth from book publishing and sales.
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.
