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Amon Leopold Göth (German: ⓘ; 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 .
Amon Göth's villa remains there. Another small monument, located near the opposite end of the site, stands in memory of the first execution of (non-Jewish) Polish prisoners in 1939. A version of the camp is featured in the movie Schindler's List (1993), about the life of Oskar Schindler.
My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past (German release title: Amon. Mein Großvater hätte mich erschossen ) is a memoir by German writer Jennifer Teege . It covers her discovery that her grandfather was Amon Göth , nicknamed the "Butcher of Płaszów " and infamously depicted in Steven Spielberg 's ...
Inheritance is a 2006 American documentary film about Monika Hertwig , also known as Monika Christiane Knauss, [1] the daughter of Ruth Irene Kalder and Amon Göth, commandant of the Płaszów concentration camp. Monika Hertwig was 10 months old when her father was hanged in 1946 for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
If Creech’s execution moves forward as scheduled, it would mark the state’s first in more than 11 years. Idaho’s last execution took place in June 2012, also by lethal injection.
Nearly 17 years after the murder of nine-year-old Rowan Ford, an execution date has been set for one of the men involved in her death. The Supreme Court of Missouri issued a warrant of execution ...
The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday set a Sept. 24 execution date for Marcellus Williams, even as the inmate awaits a court hearing on his claim that he was not involved in the murder that ...
Amon Göth, Austrian Nazi commandant of the Nazi concentration camp in Płaszów and war criminal (13 September 1946) Hans Frank, German Nazi Governor-General of occupied Poland and war criminal (16 October 1946) Wilhelm Frick, German Nazi Minister of the Interior, 1933–1943, and war criminal (16 October 1946)