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  • ok so i watched it for EC and there was a part I didn't see because I was talking to my mom on the phone and theres a question i have to fill out and i have no clue what the answer is!!! Schindler Risked his like to have Jews; was he motivated by sympathy, empathy, impulse, self interest, or influenced by someone? What sort of things did Oskar witness that impressed upon him the horror of the situation? What are some specific examples of Schindler's kindness? When was Schindler convinced that he has done the right thing? Did he ever realize/accept how much he had done? I know it's really long and i really need some help!! please!!!

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    According to the movie and in history, Schindler was a German businessman (we would say 'entrepreneur' today). His only interest at first was to make money and live his life as a good time. The way to do that in Nazi Germany was to suck up to the Nazis who ran the whole country and dictatorship. So, he did. He 'wined and dined' the Nazi creeps who were running everything. In return they supplied him with free labor (workers) to work in his factories. He thought the free labor would be paid for by the Nazi government, or that they would be prison labor paid something. Instead he found they were modern day 'slaves', the Jewish people of Europe and others the Nazis didn't like....imprisoned, enslaved, starved, tortured and murdered. He was shocked! His Nazi business buddies invited him to the 'concentration' and 'death' camps where the Nazis tortured to death their millions of helpless victims (and from where they selected his slave workers), it made him (and according to the movie, his girlfriends) sick and outraged. Seeing the truth of what the Nazis were doing for himself, he 'changed' from just a German rich guy out after money from the new Nazi Europe, to a 'resistance' activist, who protected, fed and cared for his slave workers, and got ever more of them to be assigned to his 'list' of 'slave workers' who he would protect and help or secretly set free. Schindler thought he did what anyone would have done in the circumstances...He did 'not' think he should get an award, and thought, he, or others should have/ could have done more.

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Iwhhow gave you the winner here, I think. Schindler was just disgusted with what was happening and made up his mind to help as many people as he could. He wasn't a saint or anything; he drank too much and he was a womanizer, but he wasn't going to be a party to mass murder. He believed all his life that he had done the right thing, nothing more and nothing less, and never expected to become famous. Ironically, Hermann Goering's own brother, Albert, did some of the same things Schindler did. He hated the Nazis, and used to appeal to his brother's vanity to convince him to sign release orders for Jews, whom Albert would then send into hiding. Hermann would do it because he always liked to show off how much power he had. Albert also ran a factory for a while during the war, and used it to protect his workers from the Nazis.

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In the beginning, Schindler was motivated by self-interest. He employed Jews because they were cheaper than Poles (and he said so, too). This changed over time, though. He went riding - I thing with his wife or another woman - and they witnessed the evacuation of a Jewish ghetto. This means they witnessed Nazi brutality against the Jews. I think that's when Schindler realized that something was not right. And now, he didn't keep his Jewish workers because they were cheapest, but because he wanted to protect them. ... He now also took risks, and went to prison twice. Btw Schindler's List is no propaganda. It's based on the book "Schindler's Ark" which was published some time in the 1970s. The book has now of course been renamed to "Schindler's List". In the movie, I don't think there was a moment when Schindler was convinced he had done the right thing. Before the end of the war, it would have been premature. (He did not yet know that "his" Jews were going to survive, so how could he be convinced he did the right thing.) And at the end of the war, they give him this ring with the Talmud citation: "Whoever saves one life saves the world entire", if I remember it correctly. And in the movie he then drops the ring and gets very emotional because he could have saved more Jews. In reality, who knows? He must have realized what he had done when "his" Jews invited him to Israel and treated him as a guest of honor. ... But he somehow doesn't seem the type to be overly proud of something that only seemed like the right thing to do at the time. I get the impression that he was more of a party person and that he went to Israel not to be proud, but to have a good time.

Petra

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