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Born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, on December 11,1908, Amon Goeth was a Hauptsturmführer (Captain) in the SS. He joined the Austrian Nazi Party in 1932, and the SS in 1940. During the war, he served in the SS command and police in the Lublin district of Poland and was a member of the Operation Reinhard staff that operated the Sobibor, Belzec, and Treblinka death camps. Goeth was then transferred to the SS command in Cracow where he was put in charge of liquidating the ghetto. He then served as the commandant of the Plaszow concentration camp in Cracow from 1943 to 1944. After the war, Goeth was placed on trial by the Polish Supreme Court. He was sentenced to death by hanging on September 13, 1946. His legacy of cruelty based on survivor accounts was recorded in Thomas Kenneally's novel, Schindler's List, and in Steven Spielberg's film adaptation. (en-US)

Fonte

MacLean, French L. The Camp Men: The SS Officers Who Ran the Nazi Concentration Camp System. Atglen, Pennsylvania : Schiffer Military History 1999 . p. 87

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• Personale tedesco di NSDAP/SS/DS