Amon Leopold Göth

Amon Leopold Göth (or Goeth if one does not use the umlaut) (November 12, 1908 - September 13, 1946), was a Hauptsturmführer of the S.S. and was the commandant of the Nazi concentration camp at Plaszow. Amon Goeth (Released by U.S. National Archives) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Amon Goeth (Released by U.S. National Archives) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Ä ä Ö ö Ü ü The term umlaut is used for two closely related notions: a special kind of vowel modification and a particular diacritic mark. ... November 12 is the 316th day of the year (317th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 49 days remaining. ... 1908 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... September 13 is the 256th day of the year (257th in leap years). ... 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Hauptsturmführer was a Nazi rank of the SS which was used between the years of 1934 and 1945. ... For other uses of the abbreviation SS, see SS (disambiguation) The Schutzstaffel (Protective Squadron), or SS, was a large paramilitary organization that belonged to the Nazi party. ... The Nazi party used a right-facing swastika as their symbol and the red and black colors were said to represent Blut und Boden (blood and soil). ... A concentration camp is a large detention center created for political opponents, aliens, specific ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other groups of people, often during a war. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ...

Göth was born in Vienna, Austria, to a family in the printing industry. Göth first joined the Nazi Party at the age of 22, becoming a member of the Austrian branch of the Nazi Party in 1930 and assigned the Party Number 510764. Göth also joined the Austrian SS at the same time he entered the Nazi party and was appointed an SS-Mann with the SS Number 43673. Vienna (German: Wien [viːn]) is the capital of Austria, and also one of Austrias nine federal states (Bundesland Wien). ... The Nazi swastika symbol The National Socialist German Workers Party ( German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), better known as the NSDAP or the Nazi Party was a political party that was led to power in Germany by Adolf Hitler in 1933. ... The Nazi swastika symbol The National Socialist German Workers Party ( German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), better known as the NSDAP or the Nazi Party was a political party that was led to power in Germany by Adolf Hitler in 1933. ... 1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Mann, which is a German word meaning person or man, was also a paramilitary rank used by several Nazi Party paramilitary organizations between 1925 and 1945. ...

Göth's early SS activities are little known, due large in part that the Austrian SS was an illegal and underground organization until the Anschluss of Austria, by Nazi Germany, in 1938. Between 1932 and 1936, Göth was a member of an Allgemeine-SS company in Vienna and, by 1937, had risen to the rank of SS-Oberscharführer. Between 1938 and 1941, he was a member of SS-Standarten (Regiment) 11 operating from Vienna and was commissioned an SS-Untersturmführer on July 14, 1941. March 12, 1938: German troops march into Austria The general German term Anschluss [1] (literally meaning connection, but in this context translated as annexation in the sense of political union) often refers to Anschluss Österreichs — the inclusion of Austria in a Greater Germany in 1938. ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday. ... 1936 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Allgemeine-SS was the name for the General SS which consisted of part-time mustering SS formations created under the Nazi Party between 1925 and 1945. ... 1937 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... SS-Oberscharführer insignia SA-Oberscharführer insignia Oberscharführer was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank that existed between the years of 1932 and 1945. ... 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... SS-Untersturmführer insignia Untersturmführer was a paramilitary rank of the German Schutzstaffel first created in July 1934. ...

In August of 1942, Göth left Vienna to join the staff of the SS and Police Leader of Krakow. He was appointed as a regular SS officer of the Concentration Camp service, and on February 11, 1943 was assigned to construct and command a forced labor camp at Plaszow. The camp took one month to construct via slave labor and, on March 13, 1943, the Jewish ghetto of Krakow was closed down with the surviving inhabitants imprisoned in the new Labor Camp. Approximately 2,000 people died during the evacuation, many of whom Göth personally executed. 1942 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... SS and Police Leaders were senior Nazi Party officials that commanded large units of the SS during and prior to the Second World War. ... This article needs cleanup. ... 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ... The word Jew (Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ... A ghetto is an area where people from a specific ethnic background or united in a given culture or religion live as a group, voluntarily or involuntarily, in milder or stricter seclusion. ...

Amon Göth riding on horseback through Plaszow Labor Camp in the summer of 1943

On September 3, 1943, Göth was further tasked to close down the ghetto at Tarnow, where an unknown number of people were killed on the spot. On February 3, 1944, Göth shut down the concentration camp at Szebnie by ordering the inmates to be murdered on the spot or deported to other camps, again causing the death of several thousand people. Amon Goeth on horseback File links The following pages link to this file: Amon Göth Categories: National Archives and Records Administration images ... Amon Goeth on horseback File links The following pages link to this file: Amon Göth Categories: National Archives and Records Administration images ... Motto: none Voivodship Lesser Poland Municipal government Rada Miejska Tarnów Mayor Mieczysław Bień Area 72,4 km² Population  - city  - urban  - density 121 300 - 1675/km² Founded City rights - 1330 Latitude Longitude 50°02 N 21°00 E Area code +48 14 Car plates KT Twin towns - Municipal Website Tarnów is... 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Deportation is the expelling of someone from a country. ...

On April 20, 1944, Göth was promoted to the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer, having received a double promotion and thus skipping the rank of SS-Obersturmführer. He was also appointed a regular officer of the Waffen-SS. His assignment as Commandant of the Plaszow Labor Camp continued, now under the direct authority of the SS Economics and Administration Office. Hauptsturmführer was a Nazi rank of the SS which was used between the years of 1934 and 1945. ... Obersturmführer collar insignia Obersturmführer was a paramilitary rank of the Nazi party that was used by the Schutzstaffel and also as a rank of the SA. Translated as “Senior Storm Leader”, the rank of Obersturmführer was first created in 1932 as the result of an expansion of the Sturmabteilung (SA... Waffen-SS recruitment poster; Volunteer to the Waffen-SS The Waffen-SS was the armed wing of the Schutzstaffel. ...

In Plaszow, Göth routinely tortured and murdered prisoners on a daily basis. He became internationally known through his depiction by Ralph Fiennes in the movie Schindler's List, although this grim portrayal (where, for shooting practice, he sniped Jews from the balcony of his house) showed only a subset of his crimes. The Iron Maiden of Nuremberg was a famous torture device Torture is the infliction of severe physical or psychological pain as an expression of cruelty, a means of intimidation, deterrent or punishment, or as a tool for the extraction of information or confessions. ... Ralph Fiennes in Spider Ralph Nathaniel Fiennes (pronounced Raif Nathaniel Fines, born December 22, 1962) is a British actor. ... Schindlers List is a 1993 movie based on the book Schindlers Ark by Thomas Keneally (the book was later renamed Schindlers List as well). ... The traditional definition of a sniper is an infantry soldier especially skilled in field craft and marksmanship who kills selected enemies from concealment with a rifle at large distances. ...

Amon Göth during sniper practice at Plaszow in the summer of 1943

During his time at Plaszow, Göth allegedly shot over 500 Jews himself; Poldek Pfefferberg, one of the Schindler Jews, famously said, "When you saw Göth, you saw death." Amon Goeth with Rifle File links The following pages link to this file: Amon Göth Categories: National Archives and Records Administration images ... Amon Goeth with Rifle File links The following pages link to this file: Amon Göth Categories: National Archives and Records Administration images ... Schindler Jews are the many Jews that were saved by Oskar Schindler, by having them work for him. ...

Actor Ralph Fiennes as Amon Göth in Schindler's List

The exact nature of the relationship between Göth and Oskar Schindler is not known, but it is suggested that in order to save the lives of the Jews working for him (and keep his own profits), Schindler made friends with Göth. These Jews initially lived in a sub-camp in his factory. Ralpf Fiennes as Amon Goth (Public Domain on the Internet) This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... Ralpf Fiennes as Amon Goth (Public Domain on the Internet) This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... Ralph Fiennes in Spider Ralph Nathaniel Fiennes (pronounced Raif Nathaniel Fines, born December 22, 1962) is a British actor. ... Oskar Schindler Oskar Schindler (April 28, 1908 – October 9, 1974) was a German businessman famous for his efforts to save his Jewish workers from the Holocaust. ...

On September 4, 1944, with the Soviet army approaching Krakow, this sub-camp was closed by the Nazi authorities and the Jews were forced to move to the Plaszow camp. To save his workers, Schindler continuously bribed Göth with money and black market goods. Soviet redirects here. ... Bribery is the practice of offering a professional or an authority person money or other favours in order to circumvent ethics or other rules in a variety of situations. ... The black market is the sector of economic activity involving illegal economic dealings, typically the buying and selling of merchandise illegally. ...

When Plaszow itself was shut down on October 15, 1944, Schindler managed to establish his famous list of Jews that were not to be murdered, but instead sent to a new kriegswichtige (war-essential) factory at Brunnlitz in Czechoslovakia.

On September 13, 1944 Göth was relieved of his position as Commandant of Plaszow and was assigned to the SS Office of Economics and Administration. Shortly thereafter, in November of 1944, Göth was charged with theft of Jewish property (which, according to Nazi legislation, belonged to the Reich), and was arrested by the Gestapo. He was scheduled for an appearance before an SS and Police Court, but due to the progress of the Second World War, and Germany's looming defeat, a tribunal was never assembled and the charges against him were summarily dismissed. He was next assigned to Bad Tolz, Germany were he was quickly diagnosed by SS doctors as suffering from mental illness. He was committed to a sanitarium where he was arrested by American troops in May of 1945. Theft (also known as stealing) is, in general, the wrongful taking of someone elses property without that persons willful consent. ... The Gestapo was the official secret police force of Nazi Germany. ... For other uses of the abbreviation SS, see SS (disambiguation) The Schutzstaffel (Protective Squadron), or SS, was a large paramilitary organization that belonged to the Nazi party. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen is a district in Bavaria, Germany. ... The Scream, the famous painting commonly thought of as depicting the experience of mental illness. ... There are a few meanings of Sanitarium: A sanitarium can be a psychiatric hospital. ...

After the war, the Supreme National Tribunal of Poland at Krakow found Göth guilty of murdering tens of thousands of people. He was hanged on September 13, 1946, not far from the former site of the Plaszow camp, saluting the Führer in a final act of defiance. 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Führer (often written Fuehrer or Fuhrer in English when umlauts are not used) is a proper noun meaning leader or guide in the German language. ...

In 2002, an interview book with Göth's daughter, Monika, was published in Germany under the name Ich muss doch meinen Vater lieben, oder? ("But I must love my father, must I not?"). For the first time, Göth's daughter spoke of her mother, who unconditionally glorified her father until faced with his role in the Holocaust. Monika Göth's mother had committed suicide after giving an interview in the 1980s, leaving Monika to bear her father's legacy alone. (ISBN 3-8218-3914-7) 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Concentration camp inmates during the Holocaust The Holocaust was Nazi Germanys systematic genocide (ethnic cleansing) of various ethnic, religious, national, and secular groups during World War II. Early elements include the Kristallnacht pogrom and the T-4 Euthanasia Program established by Hitler that killed some 200,000 people. ... Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ...

External links

• Schindler's List Teaching Guide (http://www.tulane.edu/~so-inst/slguid4.html)
• The Trial of Amon Göth (http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/WCC/goeth.htm)