December 11, 1908 - Amon Göth
His conviction for homicide at a war crimes trial — a first — reflected a record that went beyond administrative culpability: Göth was found to have personally killed, maimed, and tortured an unidentified but substantial number of prisoners under his command. As commandant of Kraków-Płaszów, he oversaw the camp through its most lethal period, with authority exercised through direct violence as much as through institutional machinery. The personal scale of that violence, documented at trial, is what distinguishes his case within the broader history of Nazi camp administration.
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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.
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