Amon Leopold Gett was born in Austria in 1908. Son of a Roman Catholic, well-to-do family of publishing house owners, he left school at the age of 17, joining extreme, anti-Semitic groups. In 1930 he joined the Austrian branch of the National Socialist party and then joined the SS.
For a time he lived in Germany. After the occupation of Austria by Hitler he returned. He married a second time. From this marriage he had three children, one of whom died in infancy. His first marriage had lasted only a few months.
War, administrative executor
On March 5, 1940 he was called to serve in the army but avoided it with the help of the SS. It is worth noting that the "tough" Geth never fought. From the middle of 1941 to 1942 he served in administrative positions in occupied Poland where he was allegedly involved in the murders of Jews. In the summer of 1942 he joined the SS section that undertook the "final solution". He served in this department for six months in charge of transporting Jews to the extermination camps of Sobibor, Belcek and Treblinka.
He then joined the concentration camp section of the SS and was sent to set up and run the Placzow camp in Kraków. On March 13 he was in charge of the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto of Krakow. Thousands of innocents were murdered, others were sent to extermination, and the rest were sent to the new camp where Geth, as you called the prisoners, was "god".
He participated in the extermination of the Jews of the Tarnów ghetto, of whom 10,000 were sent to Plazczow. Gett himself murdered at least 30 women and children – other accounts say 90. He was also the mastermind behind the murders of Jews and Poles in Szębnie. For his "work" he was promoted to captain in April 1944.
A humanoid demon with expensive tastes...
Geth was a man without a conscience, a sadist and a cold executioner. Many times he himself killed prisoners who, in his opinion, did not work fast enough from the balcony of the villa where he lived, on a hill overlooking the camp. He also sent all the children of the prisoners to Auschwitz to be exterminated. The camp, at its peak, housed 25,000 prisoners , who lived in miserable conditions, under the constant threat of death.
He himself had trained two huge dogs that he had, to tear the prisoners to pieces, on his orders. When he didn't realize that his dogs were taking a liking to a prisoner he had put in charge of their care, he killed him too. On another occasion he murdered his Jewish prisoner cook because he served his soup too hot for his liking.
He himself lived royally in the villa, having at his disposal women, expensive cars and riding horses. He also had inmate cobblers make him a handmade pair of shoes every week.
On one occasion a prisoner escaped and killed half the prisoners of the work crew he belonged to. On a similar occasion he killed one in five prisoners of another crew. At least 8,000 prisoners were murdered on a hill adjacent to the camp.
… and light hand
But Gett did not operate like this for purely ideological reasons. He himself had decided to make something for himself by "stealing state property", i.e. the possessions of the murdered that the SS considered as their property and by "renting" prisoners to German companies (one of which was that of Oscar Schindler). But he was discovered and on September 13 he was prosecuted by the camp administration.
He was tried by an SS court, but due to developments on the war fronts, the prosecution against him was eventually dropped. Instead of prison he was sent to the SS psychiatric hospital in Bad Teltz, where he was arrested by the Americans in May 1945.
But he was recognized by his victims and finally extradited to Poland where he was tried and executed – with difficulty – on September 13, 1946. It is worth noting that the first two attempts to hang him failed (video). His corpse was burned and his ashes were thrown into the Vistula River.
Gett with his rifle on the balcony of the villa ready to assassinate a prisoner.
Get with his mistress in the villa.
Gett on his trial.
Gett captured.
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