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Amon Göth

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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Amon Göth is the 11th most popular extremist (up from 29th in 2019), the 65th most popular biography from Austria (up from 135th in 2019) and the most popular Austrian Extremist.

Amon Göth is most famous for his role as the Commandant of the Plaszow concentration camp in Poland during World War II. He was a member of the Nazi party and served as the commandant of the Plaszow concentration camp from 1940 until 1944. He was responsible for the deaths of over 18,000 people.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Amon Göth ranks 11 out of 283. Before him are Osama bin Laden, Charles Manson, Zodiac Killer, Ted Bundy, Abdullah Öcalan, and Herostratus. After him are Lee Harvey Oswald, Frederick Trump, Man in the Iron Mask, Gilles de Rais, Leon Czolgosz, and Golden State Killer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Amon Göth ranks 12. Before him are Abraham Maslow, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Lyndon B. Johnson, Herbert von Karajan, Lev Landau, and Otto Skorzeny. After him are Edward Teller, Willard Van Orman Quine, Olivier Messiaen, Hannes Alfvén, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Don Bradman. Among people deceased in 1946, Amon Göth ranks 8. Before him are Hermann Göring, John Maynard Keynes, Wilhelm Keitel, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Alfred Rosenberg, and Alfred Jodl. After him are Ion Antonescu, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Gerhart Hauptmann, Hans Frank, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, and Mikhail Kalinin.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Amon Göth ranks 65 out of 1,424. Before him are Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (1678), Ludwig Boltzmann (1844), Archduke Franz Karl of Austria (1802), Otto Skorzeny (1908), Róbert Bárány (1876), and Prince Louis of Battenberg (1854). After him are Christian Doppler (1803), Oskar Kokoschka (1886), Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903), Victor Francis Hess (1883), Archduke Otto of Austria (1865), and Martin Buber (1878).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Austria

Among extremists born in Austria, Amon Göth ranks 1. After him are Hermine Braunsteiner (1919), Jack Unterweger (1951), Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley (1897), and Jan-Carl Raspe (1944).

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