Amon Goeth - Early Life and Career

Early Life and Career

Goeth was born in Vienna, then the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, to a family in the book publishing industry. Goeth joined a Nazi youth group at the age of 17, moved to a nationalist paramilitary group at the age of 19, and by the age of 22, became a member of the Austrian branch of the Nazi Party. In September 1930, he was assigned the Party Number 510,764. Göth simultaneously joined the Austrian SS and was appointed an SS-Mann with the SS Number 43,673.

Goeth's early activities are little known, largely because the Austrian SS was an illegal and underground organization until the Anschluss of Austria with Nazi Germany in 1938. Between 1932 and 1936, Goeth was a member of an Allgemeine-SS company in Vienna and by 1937, had risen to the rank of SS-Oberscharführer (Staff Sergeant). Between 1938 to 1941, he was a member of 11th SS-Standarte operating from Vienna and was commissioned to the rank of SS-Untersturmführer (Second Lieutenant) on 14 July 1941.

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