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Oskar Schindler Argumentative Essay

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Over 11 million people died in the holocaust, and more than 7 million 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 could’ve guessed he would have such an impact on the world.

When Oskar was a young boy, he adored his father and strived to be like him. His Father and Mother were both German, even though he was born in Zwittau, Hungary. His Father, Johann, owned a farm machinery business that Oskar eventually worked at. He had one sister, named Elfriede, who was seven years younger than him. After Oskar attended primary and secondary school, he enrolled in a technical school. He was expelled from the school in 1924 for forging his report card. After later graduating from a different school, he worked for his father for several years. In 1928, he married his lifelong friend Emilie and he immediately stopped working for his father but started looking for more …show more content…

When Oskar moved to Krakow at the beginning of WWI, and hired hundreds of Jews to work at his factory it was much cheaper than hiring regular workers. He didn't have to pay them and only had to feed them 1 time while they were at work. This made his business extremely profitable. The one problem with that theory is that Schindler all though very profitable spent nearly all of his profits bribing Nazi officers so they would let his Jews live. Oskar nearly went broke from spending so much money on

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