Amon Goeth

[Rajifelly]

Can anyone direct me to a real photo of Amon Goeth?

I can only seem to find pictures from Schindler's List.

[Benjamin Fanjoy]

here you go/

[Peter]

here you go/

Benjamin
SUPERB photos, dont suppose you have any of BLOBEL.paul. do you.
cheers
Pete

[David Thompson]

Here is a mug shot:

[Schmauser]

here is another one!

~Regards Schmauser

[Peter]

THANKS guys
Pete

[sylvieK4]

This is purported to be Goeth on horseback:

From: http://www.pausenhof.de/referate/refdeu/refdeus016.asp



From the U.S Holocaust Museum: In Polish Custody

[agibaer]

looks like he's a giant!

[Georg_S]

Hi,

here is a better photo of Amon Göth. Unfortunately have some
tried to destroy the photo, but its pretty nice anyway.

Regards,

Georg

[Xavier]

a question not related to the thread in general, but very important to me as non-native speaker (english)

why the police pictures (arrest/file) are called "mug" shots?
why the word "mug"?

thanks in advance for the comments.

Xavier
the link scrounger

[sylvieK4]

why the police pictures (arrest/file) are called "mug" shots?
why the word "mug"?

Hi, Xavier. The word "mug" is slang for "face".

[sylvieK4]

Great picture, Georg. It is hard to find good pictures of Goeth during the war - in uniform. Thanks for sharing.

[Starinov]

Wow, I did not know that Amon Göth joined the SS before January 30th 1933 (see the Ehrenwinkel on the picture posted above). I wonder why he only got up to SS-Untersturmführer in 1943...

[sylvieK4]

The ABR lists him as having joined the Party in 1925 and the SS in 1930. It really does seem strange that he did not reach the rank of Hauptsturmfuhrer until 1944 - considering his time in service and responsibilities.

http://www.geocities.com/~orion47/SS-PO ... f_E-H.html

GÖTH, Amon Leopold
(1908 - 1946)
SS-Hauptsturmführer:
Born: 11. Feb. 1908 in Wien.
Hanged: 13. Sep. 1946 in Krakow.
NSDAP-Nr.: 510 764/SS-Nr.: 43 673 (Joined, 1930)
Promotions:
SS-HStuf.: 20. Apr. 1944;
Assignments:
Kommandant of Arbeitslager (later KL-) Plaszow, near Krakow: Feb. 1943-Sep. 1944.
Assigned to Stab, SS- und Polizeiführer "Lublin" (SS-Brigf. Globocnik); transferred to Krakow: 1942.
Notes:
Arrested by SS for corruption, Sep. 1944. Accused of embezzlement; war ended before he could be tried.
Directed the liquidation of the Krakow (Feb./Mar. 1943), Tarnow (1943), and Bochnia Ghettoes.
Assigned to Poland, late 1939. Active in illegal Austrian Nazi movement during early 1930's. Fled to Germany, early 1933, then smuggled money, weapons, and information to Austria. Played a part in the failed Nazi Putsch in Vienna, Jul. 1934, and arrested thereafter, but escaped and settled in Munich, where he attempted to build a publishing company. Married/soon divorced. Returned to Vienna, Oct. 1938, and remarried (daughter born, Jul. 1939/died after 7 months; 2 more children born later).
First joined Nazi youth movement in 1925.
Postwar Prosecution:
Arrested by U.S. troops at SS sanatorium, Bad Tölz, Bayern. Extradited to Poland, he was tried in Krakow; sentenced to death, 5. Sep. 1946.

[Starinov]

It really does seem strange that he did not reach the rank of Hauptsturmfuhrer until 1944 - considering his time in service and responsibilities.

Exactly. It seems like he was forgotten for any promotion for a long time even if he worked prettey hard for the party and the SS...