Oskar Schindler: Industrialist Spy

The movie “Schindler’s List” by Steven Spielberg portrayed many antagonists and protagonists. The movie was based on how the Jews were treated in World War 2 by the Nazi’s. It was about a man named Oskar Schindler. At first, Oskar just wanted to make money by producing pots and pans to sell to the Nazi army. His plan was to first make Nazi connections by bribing them. At a party, Oskar bought people drinks and that led them to like him. By doing this, he could make connections so he could hire Jews to work for him. He wanted to hire Jews because they were cheaper then hiring Polish. This movie contains many heroes and villains, and we will be taking a look at them.

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 grew up in a prosperous Catholic family with all the privileges money could buy. He grew up to be a German industrialist, spy, and a member of the Nazi Party, who outwitted Hitler and the Nazis to save more Jews than any other from the deathly events of World War॥. With the help of his wife, Emilie Schindler, Oskar Schindler saved the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his ammunition and enamelware factories, spending millions bribing the SS, and eventually risking his life to rescue the Schindler-Jews (“The Oscar Schindler Story”)

Schindler's List is one of the most powerful movies of all time. It presents the indelible true story of enigmatic German businessman Oskar Schindler who becomes an unlikely saviour of more than 1100 Jews amid the barbaric Nazi reign. A German Catholic war profiteer, Schindler moved to Krakow in 1939 when Germany overran Poland. There he opens an enamelware factory that, on the advice of his Jewish accountant Itzhak Stern, was staffed by Jews from the nearby forced labour camp at Plaszow. Schindler's factory prospered though his contacts with the Nazi war machine and its local representatives, as well as his deft skill on the black market. Then, somewhere along the way, Schindler's devotion to self-interest was

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

In the beginning of the film, Oskar Schindler is a man who is intrigued by anyway to make money. In the past, he has mostly been a failed businessman who is extremely persistent and will stop at nothing to become a profiteer. Schindler however, has an idea, unlike any idea he has ever had in the past. In the beginning of the film, he bribes and communicates with many German officials just as the war is beginning so he can gain access to jews and their free labor. He is an exceptionally greedy man who will abuse his power and social status to make money even if it’s through the blood, sweat, and tears of other individuals. At the beginning of the film, Schindler proclaims, “In every business I tried, I can see now, it wasn't me that failed. Something was missing.” He expresses that the reason for his success in his newly found business can be credited to war. This quote clearly indicates his extreme desire for wealth. However, over time he begins to adjust and modify his behaviors as a result of his friendship with a Jewish man named Itzhak Stern, who also is a manager of his business. As time goes on he begins to protect his workers and save them from concentration camps proclaiming that they are “essential workers” for the war effort. Schindler has now begun to understand that jews

He employed Jewish workers to make sure that they were safe from the other camps. If he saw skill in them, that’s how he knew they were worthy. Schindler would spend every dime to make sure that his worker got more than what the Jews at other camps received. The Holocaust escalated, beating and killing Jews every day.

According to history, Schindler was a businessman affiliated to the Nazi party, alcoholic, smoker, womanizer, hedonist and immoral. In 1939, attracted by the business of the war, Schindler decides to move to Poland; mostly interested in the money-making potential of the business and hired Jews because they were cheaper than Poles.

“Schindler hired a Jewish accountant for persuasion on recruiting. He went to poland went to the black market and made friends with the gestapo big wigs softened them up with woman and money and booze”. His new connection helped him get his new factory he ran the cheapest labor around the jewish, in December 1939 something changed poland was being torn apart he took his steps away from nazism and said “ if you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car wouldn't you help him?” schindler's jewish accountant put him in touch with a few jews that had some wealth left, invested in his factory and in return they would be able to work there. Schindler was making money but everyone in his factory was fed and no one was beaten.

This evilness fed off of the people susceptible to the atrocities, people who did not stand up for other people’s lives. Many succumbed to, “Hitler’s Final Solution,” where he planned to kill all 9.5 million jews living in Europe. Oskar Schindler, however, did not. Schindler was one of the greatest heroes, if not the greatest hero of the holocaust. While many joined the Nazi party in fear, Oskar Schindler had an entirely different purpose.

The Jews Messiah While he may have used 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, he then became a “spy” for the German Military. September 1939, Germany invaded poland, which started WWII.

When he knew that Germany was losing the war he made sure that the Jewish workers that were working for him at the time were moved to his factory to the what is known today as the Czech Republic to make sure that none of his Jews were killed. The movie relates many chapters thought out the movie such as when Schindler was worried about the Jews packed into the cattle cars and he went and got a firehose and sprayed

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.