#Amon Goeth

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If you’re familiar with the film, Schindler’s List, then you probably already know who this is. Amon Goeth, aka “The Butcher of Płaszów,” was born in Vienna on the 11th of December, 1908. Before WWII, Goeth worked as a clerk. On the 13th of February, 1942, Goeth became the commandant of the Kraków- Płaszów concentration camp and was known for his sheer brutality. As commandant, he was the superior of all the other minor camps and had the right to enter these camps whenever he wanted. 

He participated in the liquidation of the ghettos and took pleasure in killing. By April of 1944, he was promoted to the rank of SS-Hauptsturmfuher and appointed a reserve officer of the Waffen-SS. He wallowed in luxury at the Kraków- Płaszów concentration camp, living in a villa with a swimming pool in the garden. From his balcony, he shot prisoners for walking too slow. He trained his two dogs to attack at his command and used them as a weapon.

Following the war, he was put on trial. Wladyslaw Kopystecki testified to his brutality at the camp: “When he came to the camp with his dog, in a white shirt, in high boots, he found her at the back eating a potato. He shot her in the head. She fell in the cauldron. Then he called two Jews who worked in the stable and ordered them to throw her to the other cauldron with boiling water… The Jews threw her inside, she still lived, and she moved her legs splashing that boiling water. So he ordered to cover her and walked away.”

Another prisoner testified that he also enjoyed killing children: “A six-year-old boy, after being dropped from a truck, began to run away. Goeth called: “Come, don’t be afraid!” The boy stopped. He took a mirror and son toys out of his pocket, trying maybe subconsciously to avoid death. With a forgiving smile, Goeth took everything from him only to shoot the boy with his own hands.“

Goeth was hanged on the 13th of September, 1946.

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Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goeth in Schindler's List (1993)

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Color photo of Ralph Fiennes rehearsing for Schindler's List.

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Ralph Fiennes (Amon Goeth) about other actors' interactions with him during the shooting of Schindler's List, in 1993

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The Real Helen Hirsch and The relationship with Amon Goeth.

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In my opinion Helen Hirsch is a very sad historical figure in the movie, in the book, and in reality. Many people have stated that Ms. Hirsch wasn’t even a real person and was inspired by Amon Goethes second maid Helen Jonas Rozeinweig. But if you paid very close attention during the ending of the movie Schindlers List directed by Steven Spielberg in the scene where the actors were next to the actual survivor the actress who played as Ms. Helen Hirsch (Embeth Davidtz) was next to another woman who wasn’t Jonas Rozeinwig. That woman was the real Hirsch. I was confused at first on why people would deny her being false as she also appears in a documentary called Schindler: The Documentary.

If you were to search her up on Google the only thing that would pop up would be the biography of Helen Jonas Rozeinweig and her documentary called “Inheritance” that also had Monika Hertwig (aka Amon Goeths biological daughter). The truth was ultimately sad on why Hirsch only appeared a few times in the media (Full name was Helena Horowitz Hirsch). It was stated that she was being interviewed for the Schindler Documentary and it accidentally came out that she was almost raped by Goethe while horribly drunk (he was known for being a alcoholic) and had to scream out his mistresses name Majola (Ruth Irene Kalder) to save her from him. She was so worried about the public eye twisting her story and make theories or assumptions of her having to do “sexual things” with Goethe in order to escape (which was completely false) retreated from any further interviews and let Jonas do all the talking. This was also due to the interviewer being an outright disrespectful jackass who kept on rushing the poor woman whilst she told her story as Helen kept repeating “im sorry.”

In the historically accurate book Schindlers Ark by Thomas Keanally it described Hirsch as a very tiny and frail woman in her 20s who would have bruises on her face or small body. It was stated that Goethe had to bend down to beat her often. She lived in the basement next to the kitchen where Jonas also stayed she was about 16 at the time. Ms Hirsch gained the nickname “Lena” because Goethe was way too lazy to call her full name. In both the movie and book Amon Goethe had an unhealthy obsession with Hirsch and was the “tragic love” and target of his outlandish behavior. Emilie Schindler the wife of Oskar Schindler had stated that he beat her often because he was in denial that he had fallen smitten for a Jew. He was too in love with her that he only forbade Hirsch from wearing the Star of David out of embarrassment that he liked her.

Hirsch would beg Amon constantly to end her life but would refuse and make up a random excuse to keep her. Another witness account had stated that he harbored love for his maid but was too devoted to his ideals and the Nazi regime that he couldn’t come to terms with it.

It could easily be mistaken as lust but Goethe was a very mentally unstable man. He couldn’t possibly show love the proper way as he even beat his own wife and mistress. It was stated in the book that he had a very strong problem with the beating of women and would seek help from his brother officers. It also angered him that Helen didn’t feel the same way towards him causing him to beat her even more.

In the original script of the movie Amons love for Helen was written more romantically than ever. Even him admitting his love for her in the basement scene. It also features a full scene where Amon and Schindler are both playing cards and when Amon looses he lets out a cry of pain as he has to give her up. (which was removed from the movie) but the last and final scene was described after Amon lost his job from the SS and was seen wondering around Schindlers factory like a lost dog. Schindler worried for his friend invites him inside and offers him money since Goeth had practically lost everything. He declines and states that he didn’t come back for money but to see Helen again and take her back with him. Schindler obviously shocked and unprepared for his request lies to him and says that she had died. This causes Amon to spiral into depression and drink himself away.

Another thing I would like to add was that the actor himself said that one thing that would add to his beatings was that Amon couldn’t show tender affection towards her like hugging, kissing, holding since it was a crime so he would resort to beatings as a way to feel her.

In real life he would throw parties all the time in his villa and even the guests there would notice his weird behavior towards his poor maid. Some guests would even come in the kitchen (her room) and talk to her/or complain about him being an arse. Helen Hirsch has stated that he had a strong desire to take advantage of her in other ways than beat her (I think you know what I mean) and he fortunately couldn’t because she was Jewish. Often why he wanted to see her suffer an other ways because he couldn’t act out on his fantasies.

“Did Amon Goeth love Helen or was it just pure lust”

To answer that question he was in love with her but could not understand it and tried to convince himself he was not. Even finding out how numerous times he as tried to show his affection towards her physically or emotionally Helen would always turn him down causing him to feel more angered towards her. If it was purely lust Amon would have killed her when ever he had the chance.

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after this movie i've never been the same

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Schindler’s List (1993) dir. Steven Spielberg.

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Dinner party with amon goeth

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Amon Goeth (Göth) - commandant of Krakow-Plaszow Concentration Camp. He stands on the balcony of his house, overlooking the camp's grounds - sniping at anyone he felt was lazy. Played by Ralph Fiennes in Schindler's list, Goeth was executed by hanging at Montelupich Prison in Krakow in September 1946.

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AMON GOTH

AMON GOTH (Amon Goeth)

1908-1946

Ralph Fiennes portrayed Amon Goth in Schindler’s List (1993)

            Amon Goth joined the Nazi youth group aged 17 and the SS in 1930. From 1941 he continued to be promoted higher within the Nazi party. He was assigned to oversee the construction of Krakow concentration camp of which he would command. Goth was in charge of the liquidation of Tarnow ghetto and Szebnie concentration camp in 1943-1944. He was promoted to SS-captain and it was at Krakow-Plaszow concentration camp where Goth became notorious for cruelty and murder.

            He married Anny Geiger in 1938 and they had three children and lived in Vienna during WWII. He had a long-term relationship with Ruth Irene Kalder, who worked as a secretary for Oskar Schindler. She moved in with Goth and took his surname after his death, and they had a daughter Monika Goeth (born after his execution). Kalder witnessed children torn from their parents and placed onto trucks, but remained adamant that she didn’t know what was occurring. In her bio, she said that the Jews ‘were filthy’ and she would lounge around and turn up her music so she wouldn’t hear Goth shooting. Kalder kept a photo of Goth over her bed for the rest of her life and committed suicide in 1983 after an illness.

Jennifer Teege is Goth’s granddaughter, her mother was Monika and her father was a student from Nigeria who Teege didn’t know, he abused her mother. It was Kalder who stepped in to take care of her.  

            In September 1944, Goth was charged with theft of Jewish property (which belonged to the state), failure to provide adequate food to prisoners and violation of concentration camp regulations. He was relieved of his duties and was to appear before a SS judge, but due to Germany close to losing the war the charges against him were dropped. In 1945, he was diagnosed with mental illness and was committed into a mental institution.

            In May 1945, at the end of the war the US military arrested him at the mental institution and he was tried as a war criminal at Krakow in 1946 and was found guilty of war crimes. He was executed by hanging not far from the former Plaszow Camp on 13 September 1946. His body was cremated and his ashes were thrown into the Vistula River.

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Niklas Frank talking to people about his father Hans Frank in Hitler's Children (2011) documentary

Dir.Chanoch Ze'evi

Bettina Göring is the great-niece of Nazi official Hermann Göring. Katrin Himmler is the great-niece of Heinrich Himmler, second in command of the Nazi Party under Adolf Hitler. Rainer Höß is the grandson of Rudolf Hoess, creator and commandant of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Niklas Frank is the son of Hans Frank, Polish Governor-General during WWII, he who was responsible for the ghettos and concentration camps in Nazi occupied Poland. Monika Hertwig is the daughter of Amon Goeth, commandant of the Plaszów Concentration Camp. None with Nazi leanings, the five talk individually about what it is like to carry a name associated with the Nazi Party, being a blood relative to someone associated with hate and murder, being German at a time when that in and of itself was seen as being associated with Naziism, dealing with their family regardless of their allegiance to the Nazi Party, and if they feel any guilt associated with the actions of their infamous ancestor. In addition to these musings, Hoess and journalist Eldad Beck - a third generation Holocaust survivor - travel back to Auschwitz to revisit their shared ancestral past. And Frank tells in his writings and in public speaking engagements, most to school aged children, of his past of being the direct beneficiary to many of the Nazi Party's favors which in turn is partly the reason he denounces his parents.