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Steven Spielberg, Schindler's List

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In the movie directed by Steven Spielberg, Schindler's List, The main character is Oskar Schindler, a Catholic Nazi. The movie revolves around Shindler and his character development from a businessman that only cares about himself to a man making many sacrifices to help as many Jews as he could. Oskar Schindler was trying to make a profit out of the war and others sufferings. He had a company and only decided to hire the Jews as his workers because they were worth less marks than the Poles. As the war continued, Oskar got to see more of what was going on in the Concentration Camps and how the Jews were being treated. He wasn’t a perfect man but even he knew that what the Nazis were doing to the Jews wasn’t right. Oskar Schindler was disturbed

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