Oskar Schindler: A Brief Biogrpahy

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Oskar Schindler is not a man you would connect to saving the life of Jewish people during War World. He was a member of the Nazi party that also drank, gambled, and knew how to bribe. Schindler joined the Nazi party not because he believed in the beliefs, but he rather had a business motivation. During the Holocaust, Oskar Schindler used the Nazi party as way to save the life of over one-thousand Jewish people.
Born on April 28, 1908 in the German province of Zwittau, Moravia, now known as the Czech Republic. This region is more commonly known as the Sudeten land. Schindler attended a German language school and among his playmates were two sons of local rabbi. At the age of sixteen he dropped out of school and went to work at his father’s farm-machinery factory. While working for his father he met Emilie and married her in 1928. Schindler marriage caused a rift between him and his father. He left his father business and went to work in the Moravian electric company as a sale manager. His job offend took him to Kraków, Poland on business.
In 1935 Oskar Schindler joined the Pro-Nazi Sudeten German Party. It is believed that he joined the party for pragmatism not ideal affinity. A year later he collected counterintelligence for Abwehr, the German military intelligence agency. By doing so he was exempted from military service. In 1938 he was arrested by Czechoslovak later release by the Munich agreement. Schindler was pardoned h Reich rose the ranks of Abwehr. He was then the accepted as full member of Nazi Party. He Journey to Kraków through activity on black market and bribes he secured a formally Jewish owed enamel ware factory, renaming it Emalia. Upon first less than a fourth of all worker were Jewish, by 1942 half of the workers...

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The most important theme in the movie is the difference one individual can make. Schindler risked everything and give everything he had to give these Jewish people a chance. He could have been a ruthless Nazi that cared only about the Aryan race. Schindler did not just save the life of 1,000 Jewish victims, he saved generations of families. Without him these family would not have survived.

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"Decades on, 'Schindler's List' still resonates." Philadelphia Inquirer [Philadelphia, PA] 8 Sept. 2013. Biography In Context. Web. 7 Nov. 2013.Crowe, David. "Oskar Schindler." Encyclopaedia Judaica. Ed.
Michael Berenbaum and Fred Skolnik. 2nd ed. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2007. Biography In Context. Web. 7 Nov. 2013.
"Oskar Schindler." Encyclopedia of World Biography. Vol. 18. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Biography in Context. Web. 15 Nov. 2013.

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