The Trial of Amon Goeth: copy proceedings
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The Trial of Amon Goeth: copy proceedings
Amon Leopold Goeth (1908-1946), SS officer. Born in Vienna. Goeth joined the National Socialist Party in 1932. In 1940 he joined the SS, where he rose to the rank of Hauptsturmführer. Goeth was assigned to the headquarters of the SS Command and to the Lublin police. Subsequently he was transferred to Krakow, where he was in charge of liquidating the ghettos and labour camps at Szebnie, Bochnia, Tarnow, and Krakow, amongst other places. From February 1943 to September 1944 Goeth commanded the concentration camp at Plaszow, near Krakow. After the war he was extradited to Poland at the request of the Polish authorities and tried before the Polish Supreme Court on a charge of committing mass murder during the liquidation of the ghettos at Szebnie camp and Plaszow. He was sentenced to death and executed in Krakow.
The Trial of Amon Goeth: copy proceedings