following the second world war there
were many nazi gods and members of staff
who were sentenced to death for their
violent crimes that were committed
inside of concentration camps
many of the camp's commandants such as
rudolf hearst were brought to the
gallows for the brutal mass killing and
for the horror that occurred inside of
them
but there was one concentration camp
commandant who also had a date with the
executioner for his crimes and he was
one of the most brutal and grotesque
monsters of the whole of the holocaust
ammon gert was featured in the film
schindler's list for his salistic
running of the placeof concentration
camp and he was a despicable human who
would take great pleasure in killing
innocent people
join us today as we look at the
disgusting crimes of ammon gert and
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aman gert joined the nazi party in
september 1930 in austria and he was
involved in the youth groups as a young
adult inside of austria he also joined
the ss being granted full membership in
1932.
he served inside of the assets in vienna
and was then promoted to become a shah
fuhrer but he then left the country and
went to germany after he was
investigated for illegal activities such
as stockpiling and gathering explosives
for the nazis and after the outlawing of
the nazi party in austria he remained in
munich
he smuggled radios and weapons into
austria working as a courier for the ss
and was later arrested for the
assassination of austrian chancellor
engelbert dolphus
he managed to escape custody and then
went to the ss training facility near to
dachau
he resumed his ss activities after a
short hiatus and he did become a vermax
officer but he also became a financial
officer for the right commissioner for
the consolidation of german national hud
here he was involved in isolating
deporting and organising the mass
killing of jews
gert was then transferred to lublin in
summer 1942 and he was involved in the
ss and police forces in the area
he was involved in rounding up jews and
deporting them to concentration in
extermination camps participating in
operation reinhard
gert was then transferred and assigned
to the infamous ss def heads unit the ss
totten cop for bandai
these are in charge of the concentration
camp system and were the ones who were
ultimately responsible for the deaths
executions and violent beatings that
occurred inside of them
ammon gert's first job inside the unit
was to oversee the building and
construction of the 200 acre krakow
plush off concentration camp
he was told he would command the camp
once it had been built and it's most
possible that he had an interview for
the position with heinrich himmler and
that himmler must have been impressed
with him
himmler favored commandants who were
brutal and obsessed with efficiency and
he instilled that they were 100 behind
the nazi efforts of mass murder
the camp took one month to build using
back-breaking slave labour and on the
12th of march 1943 the ghetto of krakow
was liquidated and those who were fit
enough to work were sent to the new camp
at plachoff
there were many thousands who were
considered not fit enough to work they
were then sent to extermination camps
and were gasped within minutes of
arriving
there were a number who were even shot
dead on the streets as the ss cleared
out the ghetto
whilst the new arrivals came to the camp
gerds made a crazy speech in which he
claimed to the prisoners that he was
their god and it was he who had complete
control and authority over the new camp
he was appointed to be in charge of the
liquidation of a ghetto at tarnov which
held 25 000 prisoners
ten thousand were sent in a new camp to
be slave laborers and final round-ups
occurred in september 1943.
trains were loaded and jews were then
taken to extermination camps and many
were sent to auschwitz
it was said that less than half survived
the arduous journey and it was gert who
was in control of these deportations
he had organized what would happen and
he later admitted that he shot with his
own pistol and gun between 30 and 90
women and children during the
liquidation of the ghetto
he was also placed in control of other
liquidations including that of the
chebney concentration camp that held
around six thousand slave laborers
the camp was liquidated with around half
being sent to other places including his
camp and during this around a thousand
jews were sent to a nearby forest under
gert's command and were shot dead inside
the forest
the rest were sent to auschwitz who then
gassed and murdered as soon as they got
there on gert's orders
he gained a horrific reputation in
himmler's eyes for efficient liquidation
extermination and killing
he was promoted to the rank of essex
habstein fuhrer for his work but inside
of his concentration camp he was
incredibly sadistic
ammon gert was known for shooting many
prisoners randomly as if they were game
from the balcony of his villa
he would take out his rifle and would
sit there waiting for a prisoner to come
past and would take shots at them
murdering them on a daily basis
if prisoners were walking too slowly or
were resting in the yard he would fire
at them
he saw killing prisoners as a sport he
even trained his two dogs roll for great
dane and ralph announcation to kill and
he would set these on prisoners they
would tear prisoners limb from limb
killing them
it was said i saw gert set his dog on a
jewish prisoner the dog tore the victim
apart when he did not move anymore gert
shot him
a prisoner also commented on gert's
torturous nature saying
a hideous and terrible monster who
reached a height of more than two meters
he set the fear of death in people
terrified masses and accounted for much
shattering of teeth
he ran the camp through extremes of
cruelty that beyond the comprehension of
a compassionate mind employing tortures
which dispatched his victims to hell
for even the slightest infraction of the
rules he would reign blow after blow
upon the face of a helpless offender
would observe with satisfaction born of
sadism how the cheek of his victim would
swell and turn blue how the teeth would
fall out and the eyes would fill with
tears
anyone who was being whipped by him was
forced to count in a loud voice each
stroke of the whip and if he made a
mistake was forced to start counting
again all over again
during interrogations which were
conducted in his office he would set his
dog on the accused who was strung by his
legs from a specially placed hook in the
ceiling
in the event of an escape from the camp
he would order the entire group from
which an escape he had come to form a
row would give the order to count to ten
would personally kill every tenth
prisoner
at one morning parade in the presence of
all the prisoners he shot a jew because
as he complained the man was too tall
then as the man lay dying he urinated on
him
once he caught a boy who was sick with
diarrhoea was unable to restrain himself
gert forced him to eat all of the
excrement and then shot him
his maid testified against him at trial
and said
as a survivor i can tell you we were all
traumatized people
never would i never believed that any
human being would be capable of such
horror of such atrocities
when we saw him from a distance everyone
was hiding in latrines wherever they
could hide
i can't tell you how people feared him
he was known for mindless killing and
whenever he was seen it was associated
with murder and death
he even shot a jewish cook once as a
soup he had made was deemed too hot
he was a firm believer in collective
punishment and if one person from a
barrack or work team committed an
infringement of the rules then the whole
group would be punished
one evening a prisoner managed to escape
so girth ordered the shooting of every
second worker inside of the work group
where the prisoner had fled
he also shot every fifth member of a
crew as one prisoner had not returned to
the camp
if a prisoner stole food as they were
desperate gert would shoot them
much of his brutal murders occurred in
the hagerva gorka a big hill which was
used for shootings mass killings and
murders
it's estimated that gert ordered the
executions of 12 000 people there
he was sacked as a commandant of plashov
as he was accused of stealing jewish
property which it was deemed belong to
the state of the nazis
he was also accused of failing to give
prisoners adequate food and also
violation of rules with regards to
punishing prisoners
he was seen as running a poor camp and
was deemed mentally ill and was sent to
a mental institution in bavaria
and was arrested by the us after the war
he was then handed over to the polish
and was placed on trial after the war
for his horrific crimes
he was convicted of murder and for
personally killing maiming and torturing
a substantial albeit an identified
number of people
for his crimes he was sentenced to death
and close to his camp at plachoff in
krakow he was hanged at montelupitch
prison
among gert was a brutal barbaric
concentration camp commandant who was a
cold-blooded murderer
he saw the killing of the jews and
prisoners as a sport and he was a
horrific man who even trained his dogs
to be killers
his involvement in the holocaust was
clear
and he was seen by heinrich himmler
initially as a reliable camp commandant
who could perform his murderous jobs
with ruthless efficiency
his crimes were despicable and today
many of them remain untold
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