Camp Commandant Amon Goeth, Infamous From the Movie “Schindler’s List”, Standing on His Balcony Preparing to Shoot Prisoners, 1943
Camp Commandant Amon Goeth, Infamous From the Movie “Schindler’s List”, Standing on His Balcony Preparing to Shoot Prisoners, 1943 Amon Leopold Goeth was camp commander of the Plaszow concentration camp from February 1943 until September 1944. In the photograph he can be seen standing on his balcony preparing to shoot prisoners. In the photograph, he can be seen standing on his balcony preparing to shoot prisoners. Amon Leopold Goeth (German: Amon Göth) the villain of the movie Schindler’s List, was born in 1908 in Vienna, Austria. At the age of 24, he joined the Nazi party. In 1940, Amon Goeth became a member of the Waffen-SS. He was assigned to the SS headquarters for Operation Reinhard in Lublin in German-occupied Poland in 1942. Operation Reinhard was the plan to evacuate the Jews from the Ghettos in Poland to three death camps: Treblinka, Sobibor, and Belzec, all of which were in eastern Poland. In February 1943, Goeth received a promotion and became the third SS officer t...