schindler

Oskar Schindler, born April 28th, 1908, in Zwittau, Austria-Hungary, was one of and still is one of the greatest heros in German culture. He was a sly, strategic business man who took every opportunity to feed his hunger for wealth and power. He was not alone; Oskar Schindler married a girl named Emilie at the young age of nineteen, however, he was never loyal to her. Over 1,200 Jewish people were saved in the Holocaust because of a huge factory he created. On the outside, Schindler was a vicious nazi, but to the Jewish people he saved, he was a hero. Schindler proves this when he says, “If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn’t you help him?” Helping others became second nature to Oskar Schindler, but his leader was the complete opposite (Crowe, 2014).

Adolf Hitler, leader of the National Socialist German workers, or Nazi Party, became head of the government in 1932(Crowe, 2014). This created many conflicts in Germany. Because of the Versailles Treaty, created at the end of world war 1, Germany agreed to the the bill for all reparations and had to reduce armed force(Crowe, 2014). The nazis blamed their troubles on the easiest target they could find, and the weekly Nazi newspaper got the news across quickly. Soon, those Jewish people with ape-like features became the biggest enemy; this led to anti-semitism.

Reichstag, or the German Parliament, was taken over by Hitler and all of his greed(L, D. (1999). This was part of the plan to destroy all of the Jews. In 1933, the new election was changed because the Nazis removed any major party leaders and cancelled any political meetings making it as easy as taking a walk in the park for Hitler receive the majority vote at the election(L, D. 1999). Hitler had some othe...

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... that he was there to help, and they were not to be afraid of him(L, D. 2002). He had his workers simply create bullets for the German soldiers and he would care for them in his factory until the war was over(L, D. 2002).

The impact that Oskar Schindler had on the Jews, Hitler, and the soldiers was a life changing and cultural changing event in not only Europe’s history, but the world. Oskar Schindler was more than a hero to everyone, he helped to create a glimmer of hope for the surviving Jews still left in the world going through the terrible times of war and struggle. He truly made a huge difference in many lives. Without Schindler’s impact on the history of Europe, many more Jews would have died for no reason and suffered terribly painful deaths. Oskar Schindler was proof that in all bad times, there is some good, and even a small factory made a huge difference.