Göth, Amon, 1908-1946
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- "Ich muss doch meinen Vater lieben, oder?" : die Lebensgeschichte der Monika Göth - Tochter des KZ-Kommandanten aus "Schindlers Liste", c2002:p. 250 (Amon Göth; Amon Leopold Göth; b. 1908 in Vienna) p. 251 (executed in 1946)
- Proces ludobójcy Amona Leopolda Goetha przed Najwyższym Trybunałem Narodowym, 1947.
- Amon Goeth; Amon Leopold Göth "the butcher of Płaszów" (spelled in some English sources as Goeth); born 11 December 1908 in Vienna; died 13 September 1946 in Kraków; an Austrian SS-Hauptsturmführer (captain) and 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. 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 (1993) depicts his practice of shooting camp internees ( (Wikipedia, May 4, 2015) )
- Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, 2000:p. 247 (Goeth, Amon Leopold, 1908-1946; SS officer and commandant of the concentration camp at Płaszow; b. Vienna, Austria; sentenced to death for his crimes, and hanged in Cracow)
- OCLC, Mar. 6, 2001(hdg.: Goeth, Amon Leopold, 1908-1946)
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Amon Leopold Göth (German: [ˈɡøːt] ; 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. Göth was tried 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." Göth was executed by hanging not far from the former site of the Płaszów camp. The 1993 film Schindler's List, in which Göth is portrayed by Ralph Fiennes, depicts his running of the Płaszów concentration camp.
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