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    They were apart of big scenes since Schindler was the main character in the movie. The only reason why the Jews wanted to work for Schindler was because they didn’t want to be put in death camps and they knew working to death was better than dying from a gas chamber. It was known as a blessing to work for Schindler in his factory. At the end there was another scene of color when the Jews were free. It stood for freedom. There

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    Who was Oskar Schindler? Was he a man who was considered fortunate man by some people including his wife? Or a a man who decided to save thousands of Jews from being murdered by the Nazis? Oskar Schindler was a well known Nazi who lived the playboy lifestyle. He drank,smoked, and had sex with every girl he could find. When people think of this person, they think that he is such a hopeless individual who will never amount to anything. How did he go from a hopeless individual to a renowned hero? In

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    1. Oskar Schindler developed as a character through the film. He started out as a greedy, manipulative, business man who was only looking out for himself to empathetic, caring, hero. So, the question is if he is a good or bad guy and the answer is both. Schindler in the beginning of the movie used the Jews to work in his factory, because he didn’t have to pay them as much as other workers. He also cheats on his wife a lot. This character flaw shows that he isn’t loyal and if something better comes

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    Well-known director and producer, Steven Spielberg, released a historical drama titled Schindler’s List. The American film was released in 1993, to inform the audience of Oskar Schindler’s success in protecting the lives of over a thousand Jews during the Holocaust as he provided them with employment in his factories. Spielberg creates a dramatic tone throughout the film in order to convey the true horror of the Holocaust as he provides the audience with dramatic scenes to better convey the genuine

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    Oskar Schindler saved thousands of Jewish people from the horrible tragedy that was the Holocaust. Some would say, at one point in Schindler 's life, he was an aryan man with no financial problems whatsoever. Schindler was truly a brave man that sacrificed his life for many others. Schindler simply saved others out of the goodness from his heart. “Oskar Schindler (1908-1974) was born on April 28, 1908, in Svitavy (Zwittau), Moravia, at that time a province of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy” (Holocaust

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    Oskar Schindler saved thousands of Jewish people from the horrible tragedy that was the Holocaust. Some would say, at one point in Schindler 's life, he was an aryan man with no financial problems whatsoever. Schindler was truly a brave man that sacrificed his life for many others. Schindler simply saved others out of the goodness from his heart. “Oskar Schindler (1908-1974) was born on April 28, 1908, in Svitavy (Zwittau), Moravia, at that time a province of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy” (Holocaust

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    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

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    Why’d he do what he did? For the Jews, for humanity, for proving that you can be pure even in the darkest of times. Why? Oscar Schindler saved the Jewish people in his factory when he saw that they were ruthlessly slaughtering them. He knew the Jews in his factory that was working for him in his enamelware factory making faulty items like cooking pots and ammunition, etc. He would see the Jewish as cheap labor and would buy a good amount to work in his factory around 1,200. Oscar was one of the only

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    The story of Schindler’s List covers the life of Oskar Schindler. Starting with Schindler being a millionaire supporting the Nazi party to make more money, to Schindler’s change of heart and realization of the Nazi evil and Jewish innocence, and to the end of the war where Schindler has an emotional breakdown because he thought could have saved more people. One of the central themes in Schindler's List is the theme of good vs evil. The film is brimming with parallels contrasting good vs evil, light

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    was Oskar Schindler, who worked within the Nazi Party. Oscar Schindler rescued 1200 Jews, who were called the “Shindler Juden” which is German for “Schindler’s Jews.” Schindler was a mixture of self-serving greed and generosity and was originally motivated by the fact that he was making a fortune by saving Jews, but eventually became disgusted by Nazi brutality. Schindler was born on April 28, 1908, to a middle-class family

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