Amon Goeth In Schindler's List

Amon Goeth was an SS officer from Austria, who was the Commandant of the Plaszow Labor Camp and was later hanged there for the war crimes he committed, including the homicide of thousands of Jews. The film Schindler’s List shows a small part of his life, mostly when he was working in Plaszow. The liquidation of the Krakow ghetto, overseen by Amon Goeth, was portrayed fairly accurately in Schindler’s List, except for certain details.

Amon Leopold Goeth was born in 1908 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. At the age of 17, in 1925, he joined a Nazi youth group. He joined the National Socialist Workers, or Nazi, Party in 1931, and joined the SS in the following year. However, being in the Nazi Party or SS was illegal in Austria at the time, so he went to Germany. Later, after Germany brought Austria into the Third Reich in 1938, Goeth returned to Vienna. On October 23rd of that year, Goeth married Anny Ginger.

The year that World War II started, 1939, Goeth had a son named Peter, who died at the age of 7 months from diptheria. The next year, he had a son named Werner. Goeth was promoted to unterstrumfuhrer, the equivalent of second lieutenant, in 1941, and had a daughter named Ingeburg in the same year. He joined Operation Reinhard in 1942, which was a mission to kill all Jews in Poland. In February 1943, Goeth was promoted to Commandant of the Plaszow camp

Goeth remained loyal to Hitler and the Nazis from the age of 17, when he joined a Nazi youth group, until his death, when he saluted Hitler as he was hanged. The film Schindler’s List depicts the liquidation of the Krakow ghetto, which Goeth supervised, and it did so accurately, even including small details, such as Jews escaping the ghetto through the sewers. However, it left out the major detail that thousands of the Jews from the ghetto were killed in the gas chambers in