40 Fascinating Facts About the Relatives of Nazis After WWII

40 Fascinating Facts About the Relatives of Nazis After WWII

Khalid Elhassan - March 14, 2019

40 Fascinating Facts About the Relatives of Nazis After WWII
Amon Goeth during his trial in 1946. Rare Historical Photos

7. Amon Goeth, of Schindler’s List Fame

Amon Goeth is perhaps best known today as Oskar Schindler’s foe, having been portrayed by Ralph Fiennes as the camp commandant in 1993’s Schindler’s List. The real-life Amon Goeth, who ran the Krakow-Plaszow concentration camp in Poland, was a sadist who trained his dogs to tear people apart and got a kick out of watching them savage prisoners. After the war, he was convicted of ordering the torture, murder, and imprisonment of thousands, and for personally killing, torturing, and maiming an indeterminate number of people. He was hanged near his personal killing field.

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