Amon Goeth Accomplishments

Amon Goeth was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, which is now Austria, on December 11, 1908. His parents made a good living from the printing industry. In 1925, when he was 17 years old, he joined a Nazi youth group, this was the start of a sinister path. In 1930, when he was 22, he joined the Austrian Nazi Party, which was prohibited at the time. In June of 1933, the Austrian Nazi party was banned. Goeth was pursued by the Austrian police after obtaining illegal explosives for the illegal Austrian Nazi party. He fled to Germany, where the Nazi Party was flourishing. He then became a courier for the Schutzstaffel (S.S.), transporting illegal goods into Austria. His superiors adored him and he worked his way up the ladder and was eventually promoted to Untersturmführer (second lieutenant).

In 1943, Goeth was in command of the liquidation of over two million Polish Jews from the Kraków Ghetto to the Płaszów concentration camp, over two thousand Polish Jews died in the process. At the camp he was a tyrant who ruled with an iron-fist. He often killed prisoners who showed any defiance or who had an education. Most prisoners did

People were already suffering in the ghettos. The Polish Jews had to share small homes with many other families. The Nuremberg Laws were in effect which took away many of the rights of Jews. During the liquidation they separated Jews into two sections. Essential workers, which were workers with skills that were useful, such as farmers or metal workers, and non-essential workers, which were workers with skills that weren’t useful, such as teachers or babysitters. The essential workers, about two-thousand Jews, were sent to Płaszów concentration camp. Most of non-essential workers were killed or sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where even more were killed. After the liquidation the Nazi’s came back in the night with search dogs to find all of the Jews that were hiding to kill