Oskar Schindler And The Holocaust

Oskar Schindler was Nazi in good stead with the regime, as his gold pin would suggest. A married man, he lived with a German mistress and maintained an affair with his secretary. He was a shrewd businessman, and his dealings were often under the table, and his business thrived through bribes. When Schindler set up his war-time business and successfully secured Jews from the ghetto as employees, his sole aim was to profit handsomely for himself. He paid the Jews in kind, with pots and pans and other products made at the factory, which they could barter in the ghetto. It is hard to imagine that a man with this background saved eleven hundred Jews.

When the movie comes to an end, one watches the surviving Jews from Schindler's legacy along with