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    Oskar schindler He was a Nazi but instead of killing Jews, He was saving the lives of 1,200 Jews. His name was Oskar Schindler. Oskar Schindler was a man who was a part of the Nazi party. He disagreed with what they were doing so he saved many Jews. Oskar Schindler was a hero that employed Jews in his factory so they didn't have to go to the concentration camps during World War Ⅱ. Oskar Schindler was born in 1908 in the city of Zwittau, Moravia. When Oskar was 12 he worked for his dad selling farm

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    Oskar Schindler Mackenzie Britain English World War Ⅱwas one of the most gruesome wars ever to be fought. Millions of lives were lost. People lost families, homes, and just pretty much everything. Oskar Schindler saved many lives during World War Ⅱ. He brought hope for the Jews. April 8, 1908, Schindler was born in Zwittau, Austria- Hungary. He was a catholic man who grew up in a very wealthy family. Over the years he became a salesman and married Emilie Schindler. He was the type of man that loved

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    Oskar Schindler Greed

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    Jews as cheap labor during WWII, Oskar Schindler is remembered as a businessman who helped Jews during the Holocaust, intervened repeatedly on their behalf through bribes and personal diplomacy, displayed compassion and empathy for the jews and his human kindness overcame his greed. Oskar Schindler was born in Svitavy, Czech Republic on April 28, 1908. In 1928, he met Emilie Pelzl, not far after he married her and was assigned into the military. In the 1930s, Schindler Joined a pro-Nazi organization

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    Oskar Schindler Hero

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    from that time too. Oskar Schindler is one of those people. He was a German industrialist, a spy, and member of the Nazi Party who is responsible for saving 1,200 Jews lives during the Holocaust by giving them jobs in his enamelware and ammunitions factories. Schindler was born April 28th, 1908, into a Sudeten German family in Zwittau, Moravia, Austria-Hungary. His father was Johann "Hans" Schindler, who owned a farm machinery business. His mother was Franziska "Fanny" Schindler. He had a sister named

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    Oskar Schindler was as you would call it, the protagonist of the film. He was the man looking to make a fortune off the German invasion in Poland, he could be considered as callous or greedy. As you are introduced to Schindler you see him picking out each part of his outfit. The suit, tie, shoes and pants. Right down to the pin and how much money was in his pocket. This came off to me as being a narcasist, or pompass. Schindler began as a womanizing and immoral man who only cared about his personal

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    happened with Oskar Schindler in the Holocaust. In the film “Schindler’s List”, Steven Spielberg demonstrates how a person can change his personality and make a difference in the world. Spielberg supports his theme by describing Oskar Schindler, a businessman who saved thousands of people, specifically Jews, from being killed in the Holocaust by putting them to work in a factory. At the beginning of the movie Schindler was a selfish man but towards the end he becomes an altruistic person. Oskar Schindler

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    Oskar Schindler Essay

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    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

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    A Hero: Oskar Schindler Essay

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    hero is. To many people, Oskar Schindler is one of the greatest heroes because he saved many Jewish lives during the Holocaust. First this is about Oskar Schindler life and death. Oskar Schindler was born on the year of 1908 in April on 28 in Svitavy in Moravia Ca province of the Austro

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    Oskar Schindler Good Morning Class, Oskar Schindler was a German spy that saved around 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust. The Holocaust was “the mass murder of some 6 million European Jews” during World War 2 (History, 2015). Oskar was born on the 28 of April 1908 and had a mother a dad and a Sister. Oskar grew up in Zwittau, Moravia. Oskar had several other jobs before he joined the intelligence service of Nazi, in 1936. In 1938 Oskar found out information that the troops were moving. Then Oskar

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    of them were Jewish. Oskar Schindler was an entrepreneur who sacrificed himself for a cause he believed was unjust. He spent most of his life around Germany in Europe. During the Holocaust, he saved over 1,200 people from the gas chambers. There are some people who don’t think of him as a hero, but as a man looking to make an easy dollar. In my opinion Oskar Schindler was a hero of the highest class and deserves all the credit he received for his actions. When Oskar was born in 1908, no one

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