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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 6,666,411 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Amon Göth is the 26th most popular extremist (down from 25th in 2019), the 121st most popular biography from Austria (down from 116th 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 26 out of 209Before him are Ulrike Meinhof, Charles Ponzi, Ayman al-Zawahiri, John Wayne Gacy, Jim Jones, and Carlos the Jackal. After him are Cleon, Machine Gun Kelly, Luis Carrero Blanco, Mehmet Ali Ağca, Frederick Trump, and Otto Ohlendorf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Amon Göth ranks 23Before him are Simon Wiesenthal, Geli Raubal, Anna Magnani, John Bardeen, Edward Teller, and Mika Waltari. After him are David Oistrakh, David Lean, Nelson Rockefeller, Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Joseph McCarthy, and Franz Stangl. Among people deceased in 1946, Amon Göth ranks 27Before him are Fritz Sauckel, Manuel de Falla, Gertrude Stein, Andrey Vlasov, Ferenc Szálasi, and Draža Mihailović. After him are Kurt Daluege, Karl Hermann Frank, Gilbert N. Lewis, Ananda Mahidol, László Moholy-Nagy, and Felix Hoffmann.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Amon Göth ranks 121 out of 1,237Before him are Karl Polanyi (1886), Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria (1339), Fritz Pregl (1869), Otto of Greece (1815), Karl von Frisch (1886), and Josef Breuer (1842). After him are Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans (1633), Émile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865), Leopold, Duke of Lorraine (1679), Roman von Ungern-Sternberg (1886), Dietrich Mateschitz (1944), and Karl Thomas Mozart (1784).

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).