“I was now revolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system” (Oskar Schindler). This is

Oskar Schindler’s identity drastically changes from the beginning to the end of the movie. At first, Schindler was a greedy, selfish, and rich man, who was a member of the Nazi party and profited from the war. He also was a womanizer who constantly cheated on his wife. He only cared about making money and he only hired Jewish workers because they were cheaper. He saved his workers initially because he did not want to pay to train other workers and protected them since he believed that their welfare impacted his business. He saw Jewish people differently than other Germans, he saw them as workers, and he inadvertently developed a reputation for kindness. He did not do this at first to be a

Oskar Schindler was not one to pass up an opportunity to make some money. He marched into Poland with the SS and dove head first into the black market. He soon began to make friends with the Gestapo, the secret state police, by softening them up with women, money and alcohol. His newfound connections helped him to acquire a factory, which he ran with the cheapest labor around, Jews. At first, it seemed like he was another German money-driven industrialist but somewhere along the way something changed.

Schindler's List is one of the most powerful movies of all time. It presents the indelible true story of enigmatic German businessman Oskar Schindler who becomes an unlikely saviour of more than 1100 Jews amid the barbaric Nazi reign. A German Catholic war profiteer, Schindler moved to Krakow in 1939 when Germany overran Poland. There he opens an enamelware factory that, on the advice of his Jewish accountant Itzhak Stern, was staffed by Jews from the nearby forced labour camp at Plaszow. Schindler's factory prospered though his contacts with the Nazi war machine and its local representatives, as well as his deft skill on the black market. Then, somewhere along the way, Schindler's devotion to self-interest was

Oskar Schindler was a true hero during World War II. He risked life and limb for people he did not even meet before. He saved his accountant Itzhak Stern from death and Itzhak helped change his views and help save the Jews. Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jews from subsequently being sent to the gas chambers and he gave them food and work. Not a single S.S. officer got suspicious because they knew that the Jews would be working for a German cause, but on the contrary, they did not know that they were being treated affectionately and compassionately. Overall we believe that Oskar Schindler was a source of optimism and expectancy for the Jewish people. Oskar Schindler was the Moses of

In 1941, the Germans pushed the red army out and took all polish territory, Wiesenthal and his wife were imprisoned in a forced labor camp where he worked in a repair shop for Lvov’s Eastern Railroad. By 1942 the Germans had begun to implement the “Final Solution”- the annihilation of all European Jewry. A total of 89 members of his and his wife’s families had been killed by Nazis. Wiesenthal worked in the polish underground,

Oskar Schindler helped many jews survive the holocaust and he also helped many jews start new lives away from Germany. Oskar took at least 900 Jews from the Plazow death camp and made them work in his factory where they would be safe from the Nazi’s. Oskar at first was with the Germans and their attempts to get rid of all the jews but when he saw the cruel things that they did to the jews he had a change of heart. So when he took in the jews to his factory his workers began manufacturing defective ammunition for the Germans. Oskar helped many jews avoid death and instead kept them in a place where they would be safe.

Oskar Schindler was a great man and with many good intentions to save the jews because of his respect for human life. He ultimately risked his life and everything he owned just so save them. Author at ushmm.org said "Schindler

In response, Schindler utilized his German connections to turn his factory into a sub camp of Plaszow, personally obtaining the necessary permissions and then purchasing land and food for his workers off of the black market. This worked for a good three years, until 1944, when Plaszow was converted into a concentration camp, effectively shutting down the factory. To deal with this, Schindler met with, bribed, and ultimately convinced a chain of officers and engineers to allow the annexation of a factory in Brunnlitz, and the transfer of 800 male and 300 female Jewish workers. Unfortunately, the 300 female workers were accidentally sent to Auschwitz instead, but somehow (probably through a series of bribes), Schindler managed to free them and have them redirected to Brunnlitz. At the factory, Schindler unexpectedly sabotaged the machinery so that nothing useful was manufactured in the nearly eight months that it was open, dismissing inspectors with complaints of “start-up difficulties” and more often, bribes. Even with the factory’s utter lack of usefulness, he still managed to hire another group of Jews from Auschwitz−a total of 1,161 at the end of World War

WWII was a major event in this world's history that has left a major hole in our society that is still felt today. While we like to spend a lot of time thinking about the negatives, there were a lot of positives that came along with the war that are not so often recognized. One of these amazing acts during the war came from an ordinary man named Oskar Schindler. Oskar Schindler was an Austrian businessman born in Zwittau, Moravia, on April 28, 1908. During the years leading up to and during the war, Schindler lived in Krakow, Poland.

helped so many Jewish people. Schindler definitely was not a man of many morals, but his

By the Spring of 1940, the Nazi started to act different toward the Jews. Schindler was ordered to pay his jewish employees’ wages directly to the SS rather than to the workers themselves. Work-essentials Jews were forced to leave the city by the Nazis. June, 1942 the Krakow Jews were relocated to labor camps. Some of Oskar Schindler's workers were ordered to go to the train stations, including his office manager.

While being money hungry Schindler's passion for business was very notable, Schindler at first did not mind the war and it consequences to the Jews as long as his business was making profits. Oskar Schindler change was later supported when he seen the body of a young girl dead that was once alive also when Schindler gave “acts”

Oskar Schindler faced many conflicts in his life. The main conflict he faced was overcoming the Nazis and saving over one thousand Jewish People. Schindler, with out a job at the time, joined the Nazi Party and followed on the heels of the SS when the Germans invaded Poland. This is when Schindler took over two previously Jewish owned companies that dealt with the manufacture and sales of enamel kitchenware products and opened up his own enamel shop right outside of Krakow near the Jewish ghetto. There, he employed mostly Jewish workers, which saved them from being deported to labor camps. Though twice the Gestapo arrested him, he got released because of his many connections and with many bribes. Most

Watching Schindler's list I decided to focus on Oskar Schindler. Throughout the movie Schindler personal emotions change on the war. In the beginning we see that it was a good thing for business that nothing else mattered as long as he made money. When Jews would come up he wouldn't care about them because he knew he could manipulate them and earn more money since they needed him. Schindler didn't really care for the Jews and what would happen to them. We see that Schindler only concern is that his business profits in the war. His concern for going to parties were to make connection that would better his money earning business. Money was his only concern which is why he went out seeking a jew. Since having a jew made it so they could be payed less than a normal person and they would be to scared to not do work. If he got a Jew it would earn him more money than hiring a German accountant. After getting an accountant he goes and seek workers for his factory. The workers are Jews since they don't need to be payed to be working. We later learn that his wife influences him with making business and wanting to succeed. He came from a place where he had nothing and is just beginning to make it. Hes making so much money he doesn't know what to do and he thanks the war for that. With his business doing so well he starts to care about his workers. He cares about them because he needs them to continue making the money.He starts really caring about his accountant Stern he makes sure he

[War] brings out the worst in people. Never the good, always the bad. Even in the midst the devastation of a national genocide, where one race turned against another in hate, good people existed and worked to counteract the hate through love and compassion. Oskar Schindler was one of these people. World War II provided him the means to become a very wealthy and powerful man, yet he did not exploit the Jews like many other businessmen during his time. He used his money and power to save thousands. Much can be learned from what happened during the holocaust and what Schindler did to save thousands of Jews.