Oskar Schindler Thesis

In December 1939, Poland was being torn apart by the savagery of the Holocaust. Oskar Schindler took his first faltering steps from the darkness of Nazism towards the light of heroism. “If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car,” he said later of his wartime actions, “wouldn't you help him?”

Poland had been a relative haven for Jewish people and it numbered over 50,000 people, but when Germany invaded, destruction began immediately and it was very harsh. Jews was forced into crowded ghettos, randomly beaten and humiliated, and continuously murdered for no reason. Jewish property and businesses were summarily destroyed or sold to the Nazi investor’s. Furthermore, an German man named Oskar Schindler was born April 28, 1908, in Zwittau, Austria-Hungary. Zwittau, Austria-Hungary is now known as Moravia, Czech Republic.

Oskar Schindler grew up a wealthy child and despite the money they had, he also grew up as a German and a Catholic.

After attending many trade schools, Oskar Schindler married Emilie Schindler at nineteen, but was never without a mistress or two. Hard drinking lead him to have the soul of a gambler, winning big and losing bigger. He had carried on his family business and become a salesman when the opportunity came knocking in the guise of the war.

Oskar Schindler was

For example, he succeed his first quest for riches, but at the end of the war, he spent everything he made, and managed to save 1,300 Jewish men and women lives. Not too long after his factory, which produced enamels goods and munitions, Schindler's Jewish accountant put him in touch with some of the few Jews that has any remaining wealth.Furthermore, they invested in his factory, and in return, they would be able to work there and hopefully be spared. He was persuaded to hire more Jewish workers for his factory to pay off the Nazis so they would allow them to stay in