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The Nazi commandant of the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, Amon Goeth was responsible for the deaths of an estimated 10,000 people during the Holocaust, some of whom he personally murdered himself. Even more frightening, there was no way for prisoners at the camp to know when — or why — Goeth would carry out an execution. Camp survivors later reported that he killed prisoners for looking him in the eye, walking too slowly, and serving him soup that was too hot. It's little wonder why the commandant was portrayed as the main villain in the epic historical drama "Schindler's List," but the real Goeth was even crueler than his movie counterpart.
Learn more about Amon Goeth, the sadistic "Butcher of Płaszów,"
Amon Leopold Göth (German: [ˈɡøːt] (listen); 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.
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." Continue reading
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