Schindler's Biography
Oskar Schindler was born on the 28th of April, 1908, in Zwittau, Moravia, Austro-Hungarian Empire and deceased on October 9th, 1974 in Frankfurt, Germany. Oskar's parents, Hans and Louisa Schindler, were a factory owner and a homemaker. during the 1920s, Oskar worked for his father selling farm equipment, but this changed in 1928 when Oskar married a woman name Emilie and caused problems between him and his father, forcing him to leave the factory. After leaving his father's factory, he became a sales manager for Moravian Electric Company. While this was happening, Hitler and the Nazis began to rise to power and many Germans became pro-Nazi, which Schindler eventually became as well. Schindler didn't do this because he supported Hitler, but because it made business sense to go with the crowd. After finishing up with Moravian, he became a spy for the German military and gained information from the Czech, who eventually gave him a death sentence, which was also shortly revoked. After having his life saved, he knew he had to do what was right and opened a munitions factory to supply the German military. Schindler eventually employed over 1200 Jews to his factory and saved them from going to slave camps by convincing an SS officer that they were necessary to provide the Germans with munitions.
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"I hated the brutality, the sadism, and the insanity of Nazism. I just couldn't stand by and see people destroyed. I did what I could, what I had to do, what my conscience told me I must do. That's all there is to it. Really, nothing more." Oskar Schindler
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