Amon Göth

Amon Göth

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 6,666,411 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.