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Amon Göth

1908 - 1946

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Amon Leopold Göth (German: [ˈɡøːt] ; 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." Göth was executed by hanging not far from the former site of the Płaszów camp. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Amon Göth has received more than 7,304,247 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Amon Göth is the 29th most popular extremist (down from 26th in 2019), the 135th most popular biography from Austria (down from 121st 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 29 out of 283Before him are Albert Fish, Charles Ponzi, Carlos the Jackal, Patrizia Reggiani, George Habash, and Frederick Trump. After him are Luis Carrero Blanco, Abu Nidal, Otto Ohlendorf, Cleon, Nathuram Godse, and Andreas Baader.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Amon Göth ranks 29Before him are David Oistrakh, Nelson Rockefeller, Hannes Alfvén, Joseph McCarthy, Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Franz Stangl. After him are Joseph Rotblat, Ilya Frank, Werner von Haeften, Manoel de Oliveira, David Lean, and William Saroyan. Among people deceased in 1946, Amon Göth ranks 32Before him are Ananda Mahidol, Gilbert N. Lewis, Helene Schjerfbeck, Andrey Vlasov, László Moholy-Nagy, and Wilhelm Marx. After him are Kurt Daluege, Felix Hoffmann, Karl Hermann Frank, Ernest Thompson Seton, Empress Wanrong, and Ignacy Mościcki.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Amon Göth ranks 135 out of 1,424Before him are Ernst Happel (1925), Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria (1743), Charles V, Duke of Lorraine (1643), Mariana of Austria (1634), Richard Kuhn (1900), and Franz Stangl (1908). After him are Frederick the Fair (1289), Hermann Broch (1886), Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874), Albert VII, Archduke of Austria (1559), Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria (1746), and Archduchess Maria Johanna Gabriela of Austria (1750).

Among EXTREMISTS In Austria

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