Oskar Schindler Hero

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

Victor Frankl once said, “Any person, regardless of the circumstances, can decide what shall become of them – mentally and spiritually.” This is true for Oskar Schindler and Amon Goeth, who both had very different reactions to World War II. Human goodness is when one sees the truth, accepts it, and makes rational decisions based on the truth. Human evil is irrational decision-making, and when a person sees and understands the truth but choses to defy it. In Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List, philosophers Kant and Rahner would agree that Schindler is a representation of human goodness, and Goeth represents human evil.

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

The enamelware factory that he purchased was in Krakow Poland. He employed 1750 people and which there were 1000 Jewish workers. Schindler wanted to protect his workers from the Nazis, and other officials that would tell on him. He began to bribe Nazi officials and anyone who he thought that was a threat to his factories. He gave larger bribes as time went on, and started getting more broke. He even purchased black market luxury items for the Nazis officials. By the end of the war, Schindler's had spent his whole fortune. He would never prosper again, but then relied on the gifts. and money from the Jews he saved. Oskar Schindler opened an enamelware for Jews for polish workers to at. According to Oskar Schindler untold stories, ¨ After Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Oskar Schindler set up an enamelware factory in Krakow that used a combination of Jewish workers interred by the Germans and free Polish workers¨ (Stuart

Throughout the movie Schindler’s List, Oskar Schindler, a German, ends up saving a group of Jewish instead of trying to kill them. There is a large change in how the character feels, from the beginning of the movie not really caring about the Jewish people, to the end of the movie where he ends up saving a large group of Jewish people from extermination. We can see this character change throughout the movie, but what is the real reason he saved the Jewish people? Schindler saved the group of Jewish people because his character slowly changed to one that cared about the lives of all people, to the point where he rescued a group of Jewish people because it was the right thing to do.

Oskar Schindler rescued Jews from being deported to concentration camps by getting them to work for him. He treated them all very well and they were all exempt from Auschwitz. He got arrested on charges of irregularities and favoring Jews. He set up factories in Krakow, home of about 60,000 Jews. The factories primarily had Jewish workers. He got permission to keep his factories if he moved them to Brunnlitz. There were 700 men and 300 women deported to Auschwitz, when Schindler found out he got them released and sent to work for him. Oskar and his wife Emily both helped rescue Jews. Emily stopped a cattle car with 120 Jewish men in it and she convinced the SS officer that the men were needed for work. As a result the men were sent back to work for Oskar and Emily. Together they rescued over 1,000 Jews.

When the war ended he fled with his wife to Argentina, not only did his wife and himself leave Germany he took some of the jews with him to help them start a new life. After the war many jews did not have much left the Nazi’s destroyed most of the business,s and not only that but most jews did not have homes. Most of the jews that were in Oskar’s factory did not have homes to stay or families to go with so he took his wife and some of the jews and fled to Argentina. When arriving he bought a farm and that farm would be home to many of the jews that he took in.

He was born September 30, 1928 in Sighet, Romania (“Elie”). He grew up an ordinary child, a circle in a world of circles. He grew up with his three sisters, two parents Shlomo and Sarah, and no brothers (“Elie”). He pursued religious studies until his family and he were taken to Auschwitz

Simon Wiesenthal is known for being a survivor of the Nazi death camps and for dedicating his life to documenting the crimes of the Holocaust. He worked diligently to track down all the war criminals connected to the Holocaust. He founded the Jewish Documentation Center in Vienna where he worked to document the Holocaust and prosecuted nearly 1,100 Nazi war criminals. He is also known for his involvement with the case of Karl Silberbauer, the man who arrested Ann Frank. Wiesenthal did truly impressive work in his life to make sure the lives of the millions of Jews killed did not go over looked and not forgotten. In the process, Simon wrote his very own book detailing all his encounters with the criminals of the war and his life inside the

Oskar Schindler was a hero in World War II. He endured many conflicts. The main battle he faced was during World War II. During World War II, Oskar Schindler was a German businessman who saved Jews in Poland and Czechoslovakia from death by employing them in his factory (“Oskar Schindler” 362).

He was “the type of person who could strike up a conversation with anyone, particularly in a bar” (8). He joined the Nazi Party, and with his skillset, quickly became a military spy stationed in Poland. After the Germans captured Krakow, Schindler took over a kitchenware factory formerly belonging into Abraham Bankier, promising that he would then hire its original Jewish workers back to work in it. He kept his promise, naming the factory the “Deutsche Enamel Fabrik,” or “Emalia.” While the Nazi regime’s anti-Jewish policies were harsh, Schindler strived to protect his employees, once even personally threatening a low-ranking SS officer to release his workers or be reported his acquaintance, an SS General Julian

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

From this moment on, the people that worked for Schindler were not just Jews, they were Schindlerjuden, people who he had the responsibility of protecting. Itzak Stern was no longer just his accountant and business manager, he was Schindler’s go-to person vital to the survival of the Schindlerjuden. Schindler grew closer to Stern as the war progressed and he began to regard Stern as an equal, sharing personal thoughts and decisions with him. After the war, Schindler relied on Stern and the other Schindlerjuden for support as he was never able to live a secure life because of the effect the war had on him.