Amon Goeth
Military Officer, Military Person
1908 – 1946
Who was Amon Goeth?
Amon Leopold Goeth was an Austrian SS-Hauptsturmführer and the commandant of the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp in Płaszów in German-occupied Poland during World War II. He was tried as a war criminal after the war by the Supreme National Tribunal of Poland at Kraków and was found guilty of personally ordering the imprisonment, torture, and extermination of individuals and groups of people. He was also convicted of homicide, the first such conviction at a war crimes trial, for "personally killing, maiming and torturing a substantial, albeit unidentified number of people". He was executed by hanging not far from the former site of the Płaszów camp. The film Schindler's List depicts his practice of shooting camp internees.
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- Born
- Dec 11, 1908
Vienna - Also known as
- Amon Goth
- Amon Göth
- Children
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Nationality
- Austria-Hungary
- Profession
- Lived in
- Vienna
- Died
- Sep 13, 1946
Kraków
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on July 23, 2013
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