Oskar Schindler Research Paper

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.

To think that this self centred man would become known for a shining moment of salvation for so many is almost beyond belief. Oskar Schindler is not a humanitarian or a force for ?good? in the typical sense. He is depicted within the film as a man that simply found himself in a unique position and rose to the occasion. Evil on the other hand, is epitomised throughout the film by the actions of those involved in the Nazi regime, in particular Amon Goeth who was in charge of the forced labour camp at Plaszow.

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

One main character in the movie, Amon Goeth, was the epitome of caring more about himself than the other people around him. One example of this is when Goeth had the guards in the concentration camp shoot the forewoman. She had tried to correct how a building was being constructed because she had a background in engineering. Goeth didn’t like that a woman had made him look bad in front of a bunch of the inmates and guards, so he ordered her to be killed right then and there. This symbolizes just how many horrible people there were during this time and how truly traumatizing and horrifying life was for a lot of people. Another contributor to this overall theme is Oskar Schindler himself. Although he was known for helping thousands of jews throughout the whole movie, in the long run he was still very concerned with himself and how everything would work out for him in the end for a large majority of the film. Throughout much of the movie, he is had Hzhak Stern, his jewish bookkeeper, move people into his enamel factory to work for him and make him money. When one of the so called “essential workers” that Stern had moved into the factory wanted to thank Schindler for saving his life he saw that the man was not only a weak old man, but was also missing one arm. Schindler started to become a little

yet somewhat different . mostly in a different perspective . schindler was a german industrial businessman who was known for being greedy , selfish, cheating, liar like many of the other germans. But the longer this reality of a nightmare goes on he was changing into a different person . he started to noticed what was wrong .

Oskar Schindler wanted to save as many people as he could and to do that he was willing to do anything. " He spent every bit of money he had left in his possession and traded his wife's jewelry." ( Steinhouse 9) When he had made enough he furnished a secret hospital for the Jews. This shows how dedicated he was to saving people and how important it was to him. Another reason he was willing to do anything was that he knew, what was going to happen to them if he didn't step in and help. To keep the SS away his "employees records were falsified. Old people were recorded as being twenty years younger, children were listed as adults. Lawyers, doctors, and engineers were registered as metal workers." (Steinhouse 4) This example tells you how much he cared about keeping these people safe. Lastly, he took so many risks to help them but through it all he had to have hope. Cause if he didn’t all his workers wouldn't have any either. "Perhaps I had become fatalistic, or perhaps I was just afraid of the danger that would come once the men began to lose hope and acted rashly. I had to keep them full of optimism." (Stienhouse 10) When Schindler said that, he showed the world how selfless he was. He never once thought about himself, it was always about those who were worse off. Oskar Schindler helped many people in many different way, he never let anything stop

Oskar Schindler is a hero to over 6,000 Jews living across the U.S. and Europe. He helped them lead better lives, and allowed them a chance at survival. Schindler was born on April 28, 1908 in what is now Czech Republic, into a deeply religious Catholic family. He was the oldest of him and his little sister, Elfriede Schindler. He left school and his education in 1924, and took odd jobs so that he could find his direction in life. When he was not working, he would drink heavily. He was an alcoholic and would always abuse alcohol because of stress and exhaustion. At first, Schindler was on the side of the Nazi’s, as a spy. However, once he saw how the Jews were being treated, he tried to help them out. In the 1930s, Germany’s

I learned that whether we choice to be bystanders or heroes, every little choice we make can impact the future and possibly the lives of others. If Schindler didn’t have the courage to risk and sacrifice so much, to go against the norms and be deviant, generations would’ve been lost within the Jewish community.

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.

The Holocaust was a dark time in world history. Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals and more were killed and cremated by the hands of the Nazis. There were a few, however, that fought the views of Adolf Hitler and attempted to save some of the victims of his cruelty. One of the greatest of these is Oskar Schindler. Oskar Schindler has been described as a crook, an alcoholic, and an insatiable womanizer. All of this may very well be true, but this factory owner was a hero to many Jewish men, women, and children. When those Jews were shipped to the concentration camp Plazsow, he would make the famed Schindler's list. This list was a promise, a promise to those who were on it, that they would not die at the hands of the Nazis. Since he was known to

Oskar Schindler wasn’t always a nice man. It took him a long time to adapt into the man he was at the end of the movie. At the beginning of the movie. He was a perpetrator. Just like any other Nazi, he would treat the Jews like slaves. At first, he used the Jews to make a big fortune. He knew about the Jewish black market, and knew that they had items that could not be found locally during the time of the war. He got items for himself through the black market, and even bought or took some items to resell at a higher price. Although this was bad, it was the least of his crimes.

Oskar Schindler is deserving of his praised legacy to a large extent. Oskar Schindler can be viewed as an "Angel" to a fairly great extent, yet however, falls under the role of the bystander, in the bullying cycle, to a large extent as well, which may cause a contradiction in the view as to whether he is deserving of his legacy. When reviewing his life the research does reveal that he is, in fact, well deserving of his legacy and can therefore be viewed in a positive light. Oskar Schindler was a brave and great man with both positives and negatives in his history and legacy. Oskar Schindler (OS), was a man that is remembered for the amount of lives he saved. OS was an ethnic German, born in April of 1908 (source I). He was born and raised