DISGUSTING Crimes Of Amon Göth – The Commandant of Krakow-Plaszow JJ

Following the Second World War, there were many Nazi guards and members of staff who were sentenced to death for their violent crimes that were committed inside of concentration camps. Many of the camps commandants, such as Rudolf Höss, were brought to the gallows for the brutal mass killing and for the horror that occurred inside of them.

But there was one concentration camp commandant who also had a date with the executioner for his crimes, and he was one of the most brutal and grotesque monsters of the whole of the Holocaust. Amon Göth was featured in the film Schindler’s List for his sadistic running of the Plaszow concentration camp.

And he was a despicable human who would take great pleasure in killing innocent people. Join us today as we look at the disgusting crimes of Amon Göth, and remember to support our channel. Please make sure to subscribe. Amon Göth joined the Nazi Party in September 1930 in Austria, and he was involved in the youth groups as a young adult. Inside of Austria, he also joined the SS, being granted full membership in 1932.

He served inside of the SS in Vienna and was then promoted to become a Scharführer, but he then left the country and went to Germany after he was investigated for illegal activities, such as stockpiling and gathering explosives for the Nazis. And after the outlawing of the Nazi Party in Austria, he remained in Munich.

He smuggled radios and weapons into Austria, working as a courier for the SS, and was later arrested for the assassination of Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss. He managed to escape custody and then went to the SS training facility near to Dachau. He resumed his SS activities after a short hiatus, and he did become a Wehrmacht officer, but he also became a financial officer for the Reichskommissar for the consolidation of German nationhood.

Here he was involved in isolating, deporting, and organizing the mass killing of Jews. Göth was then transferred to Lublin in summer 1942, and he was involved in the SS and police forces in the area. He was involved in rounding up Jews and deporting them to concentration and extermination camps, participating in Operation Reinhard.

Goeth was then transferred and assigned to the infamous SS Death’s Heads unit, the SS Totenkopf verbände. These were in charge of the concentration camp system and were the ones who were ultimately responsible for the deaths, executions, and violent beatings that occurred inside of them. Amon Goeth’s first job inside the unit was to oversee the building and construction of the 200-acre Krakow-Plaszow concentration camp.

He was told he would command the camp once it had been built, and it’s most possible that he had an interview for the position with Heinrich Himmler, and that Himmler must have been impressed with him. Himmler favored commandants who were brutal and obsessed with efficiency, and he instilled that they were 100% behind the Nazi efforts of mass murder.

The camp took 1 month to build using backbreaking slave labor, and on the 12th of March 1943, the ghetto of Krakow was liquidated, and those who were fit enough to work were sent to the new camp at Plaszow. There were many thousands who were considered not fit enough to work, and they were then sent to extermination camps and were gassed within minutes of arriving.

There were a number who were even shot dead on the streets as the SS cleared out the ghetto. Whilst the new arrivals came to the camp, Goeth made a crazy speech in which he claimed to the prisoners that he was their god, and it was he who had complete control and authority over the new camp. He was appointed to be in charge of the liquidation of the ghetto at Tarnow, which held 25,000 prisoners.

10,000 were sent to the new camp to be slave laborers, and final roundups occurred in September 1943. Trains were loaded, and Jews were then taken to extermination camps and many were sent to Auschwitz. It was said that less than half survived the arduous journey and it was Goeth who was in control of these deportations.

He had organized what would happen and he later admitted that he shot with his own pistol and gun between 30 and 90 women and children during the liquidation of the ghetto. He was also placed in control of other liquidations including that of the Shebnik concentration camp that held around 6,000 slave laborers.

The camp was liquidated with around half being sent to other places including his camp and during this around 1,000 Jews were sent to a nearby forest under Goeth’s command and were shot dead inside the forest. The rest were sent to Auschwitz and were then gassed and murdered as soon as they got there on Goeth’s orders.

He gained a horrific reputation in Himmler’s eyes for efficient liquidation, extermination and killing. He was promoted to the rank of SS Hauptsturmführer for his work but inside of his concentration camp he was incredibly sadistic. Amon Goeth was known for shooting many prisoners randomly as if they were game from the balcony of his villa.

He would take out his rifle and would sit there waiting for a prisoner to come past and would take shots at them murdering them on a daily basis. If prisoners were walking too slowly or were resting in the yard, he would fire at them. He saw killing prisoners as a sport. He even trained his two dogs, Rolf a Great Dane and Ralph an Alsatian to kill and he would set these on prisoners and they would tear prisoners limb from limb killing them.

It was said, “I saw Goeth set his dog on a Jewish prisoner. The dog tore the victim apart. When he did not move anymore, Goeth shot him.” A prisoner also commented on Goeth’s torturous nature saying, “A hideous and terrible monster who reached a height of more than 2 m. He set the fear of death in people, terrified masses, and accounted for much chattering of teeth.

He ran the camp for extremes of cruelty that beyond the comprehension of a compassionate mind, employing tortures which dispatched his victims to hell. For even the slightest infraction of the rules, he would rain blow after blow upon the face of a helpless offender, would observe with satisfaction born of sadism how the cheek of his victim would swell and turn blue, how the teeth would fall out, and the eyes would fill with tears.

Anyone who was being whipped by him was forced to count in a loud voice each stroke of the whip, and if he made a mistake, was forced to start counting again all over again. During interrogations which were conducted in his office, he would set his dog on the accused who was strung by his legs from a specially placed hook in the ceiling.

In the event of an escape from the camp, he would order the entire group from which an escape he had come to form a row, would give the order to count to 10, would personally kill every 10th prisoner. At one morning parade in the presence of all the prisoners, he shot a Jew because, as he complained, the man was too tall.

Then as the man lay dying, he urinated on him. Once he caught a boy who was sick with diarrhea was unable to restrain himself, Goeth forced him to eat all of the excrement and then shot him. His mate testified against him at trial and said, “As a survivor, I can tell you we are all traumatized people. Never would I, never, believe that any human being would be capable of such horror, of such atrocities.

When we saw him from a distance, everyone was hiding in the latrines, wherever they could hide. I can’t tell you how people feared him. He was known for mindless killing, and whenever he was seen it was associated with murder and death. He even shot a Jewish cook once as the soup he had made was deemed too hot.

He was a firm believer in collective punishment, and if one person from a barrack or work team committed an infringement of the rules, then the whole group would be punished. One evening a prisoner managed to escape, so Goeth ordered the shooting of every second worker inside of the work group where the prisoner had fled.

He also shot every fifth member of a crew as one prisoner had not returned to the camp. If a prisoner stole food as they were desperate, Goeth would shoot them. Much of his brutal murders occurred in the Hujarowa Górka, a big hill which was used for shootings, mass killings, and murders. It’s estimated that Goeth ordered the executions of 12,000 people there.

He was sacked as a commandant of Plaszow as he was accused of stealing Jewish property, which it was deemed belonged to the state and the Nazis. He was also accused of giving prisoners adequate food, and also violation of rules with regards to punishing prisoners. He was seen as running a poor camp and was deemed mentally ill and was sent to a mental institution in Bavaria and was arrested by the US after the war.

He was then handed over to the Polish and was placed on trial after the war for his horrific crimes. He was convicted of murder and for personally killing, maiming, and torturing a substantial, albeit unidentified, number of people. For his crimes he was sentenced to death and close to his camp at Plaszow in Krakow, he was hanged at Montelupich prison.

Amon Goeth was a brutal and barbaric concentration camp commandant who was a cold-blooded murderer. He saw the killing of the Jews and prisoners as a sport, and he was a horrific man who even trained his dogs to be killers. His involvement in the Holocaust was clear, and he was seen by Heinrich Himmler initially as a reliable camp commandant who could perform his murderous jobs with ruthless efficiency.

His crimes were despicable, and today many of them remain untold. Thanks for watching. To support our channel, please make sure to subscribe. And once again, thank you so much for watching.