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| “ | This is very cruel, Oskar. You're giving them hope. You shouldn't do that. That's cruel! | „ |
| ~ Amon Goeth as Oskar Schindler hydrates Jewish prisoners. |
| “ | I would like so much to reach out to you and touch you in your loneliness. What would it be like, I wonder? What would be wrong with that? I realize that you are not a person in the strictest sense of the word, but maybe you're right about that too. I mean, when they compare you to vermin, to rodents and to lice. You make a very good point. Is this the face of a rat? Are these the eyes of a rat? “Hath not a Jew eyes?” I feel for you, Helen. | „ |
| ~ Amon Goeth expressing his lust for Helen Hirsch. |
| “ | Today is history. Today will be remembered. Years from now the young will ask with wonder about this day. Today is history and you are part of it. Six hundred years ago, when elsewhere they were footing the blame for the Black Death, Casimir the Great - so called - told the Jews they could come to Krakow. They came. They trundled their belongings into the city. They settled. They took hold. They prospered in business, science, education, the arts. They came with nothing. And they flourished. For six centuries there has been a Jewish Krakow. By this evening those six centuries will be a rumor. They never happened. Today is history. | „ |
| ~ Amon Goeth |
Amon Goeth is the main antagonist of Steven Spielberg's 1993 epic and Oscar-winning World War II drama film Schindler’s List and the novel Schindler's Ark, by Australian writer Thomas Keneally, on which the film was based on.
He is the brutal and sadistic Untersturmführer (second lieutenant) and later Hauptsturmführer (captain) in the SS, responsible for liquidating Jews from the Kraków Ghetto, and the mass murder of Jews in the Kraków Ghetto. Goeth is also in charge of the Płaszów concentration camp. He is based on the real life Nazi war criminal of the same name.
He was portrayed by Ralph Fiennes, who also played Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter film franchise and King Richard III in the Almeida Theatre's 2016 production of The Tower of London.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- Murdered a Jewish forewoman who informs him of the poor structure before following her requests to improve the structure just to twist the knife.
- Orchestrated the massacre of the Kraków Ghetto.
- Shot Jewish prisoners from his balcony for sport.
- Tried to execute a rabbi prisoner named Lewartow just for making too few hinges.
- Gunned down a random prisoner after no one answered him who had stolen a chicken, even threatening to do the same to others before a young boy told him the man he just killed had done it.
- Murdered 25 Jewish prisoners for one of them escaping.
- Sent dozens of sick children to the gas chambers and then laughing while Oskar Schindler gives the moaning parents on a train water, thinking that he's giving them false hope.
- Murdered a young boy who failed to clean his bathtub.
- To be noted, Goeth actually considered sparing the boy after Oskar tried to convince him not to be so cruel, but in the end, he opted to kill the boy anyway, proving that his sadism outweighed any possibility of redemption he could have had and cementing him as someone beyond any type of salvation.
- Lusted after and assaulted his Jewish maid, Helen Hirsch, forcing her to sleep with him, preparing his coffee, and blaming her for his own lust, and even beating her when he is forced to let her go.
- Although he gets along with his Nazi comrades, this is out of professionalism rather than any true friendship or mutual sadism, though even some Nazis feel uncomfortable with Goeth's unnecessary cruelty.
- His friendship with Schindler isn't genuine; if he were a Jew, he would treat him like any other Jew. And even when he releases Jews, he clearly does it reluctantly and after accepting a bribe, not to mention the fact that Schindler as a whole does not prevent him from doing his atrocities.
- Defiantly proclaimed his allegiance to Adolf Hitler when he is about to be executed, he shows absolutely no remorse or regret whatsoever for his heinous crimes.
- His loyalty to Hitler and the Third Reich is purely for profit, as it allows him to crush people and be above them. While hailing Hitler in his last words could be interpreted as him remaining loyal to the Nazi leader to the end, Goeth more than likely said so just to spite his executioners, due to them feeling disgust for the Nazis and wishing to see him beg for mercy before being hanged, succeeding at ticking them off.
- Overall, he actively participated in the Holocaust, mainly for his own amusement.
Trivia[]
- Amon Goeth was actually even worse in real life, with Steven Spielberg actually having to tone down his villainy because he believed that viewers wouldn't believe that some of his crimes actually happened, or that someone as evil as Goeth could keep his job, as well as for timing reasons. Some of the crimes excluded from the film include feeding prisoners to his dogs while they were still alive, shooting children with his sniper rifle, frequently using a torture cellar build under his house and personally killing more than five hundred people.
- Ironically, some of the movies critics thought the crimes presented in the movie never happened for the same reason Spielberg toned down his villainy.
- This portrayal of Amon Goeth was so true to the cruelty of the real life individual that Holocaust survivors who had been invited to watch the film by Steven Spielberg felt uncomfortable when watching his scenes.
- Additionally, one of Schindler's freed employees, likely Mila Pfefferberg, was invited to the movie set. And when she saw Fiennes in costume, she suffered a panic attack because he looked so much like the real Amon Goeth.
- His portrayal in this film inspired another Pure Evil who is infamous for his dark and evil acts - Judge Claude Frollo from The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.
External Links[]
- Amon Goeth on the Villains Wiki
- Amon Goeth on the Hate Sink Wiki
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