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Also Known As Amon Goeth • Göth, Amon Leopold
Born December 11, 1908 • Vienna • Austria
Died September 13, 1946 (aged 37) • Kraków • Poland
Political Affiliation Nazi Party
Role In Holocaust
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler
dictator of Germany
Kaltenbrunner, Ernst
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Austrian Nazi
Adolf Eichmann listening to an Israeli court's verdict
Adolf Eichmann
German military official
Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Himmler
German Nazi leader
Reinhard Heydrich
Reinhard Heydrich
German Nazi official
Karl Otto Koch
German Nazi commandant
Josef Mengele
Josef Mengele
German physician
Pister, Hermann
Hermann Pister
German SS officer
Klaus Barbie
Nazi leader
Rudolf Franz Höss
German Nazi commandant
Josef Kramer
Nazi commander
Hermann Göring
Hermann Göring
German minister
Otto Skorzeny
Otto Skorzeny
Nazi SS officer
Koch, Ilse
Ilse Koch
German war criminal
Geoffrey H. Hartman
American literary critic
Demjanjuk, John
John Demjanjuk
Ukrainian-born automobile worker
Zygmunt Bauman
Polish-born sociologist
Dietrich, Sepp
Josef Dietrich
German military officer
Paul Hausser, German Waffen-SS commander, World War II.
Paul Hausser
German military officer
Heinrich Harrer
explorer and writer