Oscar Schindler And The Holocaust

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In 1939, World War II begins with the German invasion of Poland and the transfer of the Jewish population to the neighborhoods knowen as “ghettos.” Oscar Schindler is a German businessman, who is hoping to pounce upon the privilege of profiting on the war. He is a member of the Nazi party and begins to make acquaintances with German Military officials. Soon he has a profitable factory working for the German war effort. Soon he utilizes a man named Itzhak Stern to help run his new business. Itzhak Stern is a star wearing Polish Jew, who has been running a council and has been relocated to the Jewish ghetto by the German government. Shindler goes to work making great amounts of money, with Stern at his side assisting. Schindler soon acquires…show more content…
It displays the hate and disgust the German Nazis have for the European Jewish population. But in all the mess and murder, stands Oscar Shindler who saved the lives of more than a thousand Jewish people, at the cost of the fortune he had so longed for and set out to achieve at the beginning of the story. This was scarce to come across by the Jewish people they were surrounded by the Germans as well as their hatred. This is the source of the genocide that occurred when the working German government attempted to “exterminate” the Jews from Europe and eventually they would’ve tried on a worldwide scale if they had the chance. The process in which the Jews were rounded up concentrated, enslaved and eventually murdered was cruel and disgusting. After a Jewish person had spent a certain amount of time in slave work they were sent to death camps. A factory process of murder was something no one could fathom, being placed in an assembly line manor through a process that, in the end would terminate your life. This was something that the German government decided was best, to be a Jew and know that the government that runs the state you’re in by default or by occupation, has decided you are worthless and needed to be exterminated is not moral. To hate a person or people so much that murdering them in cold blood by the bulk, just seems morally right is genocide. No one on this planet has the right to decide that a certain type…show more content…
She cooks, cleans and even has sex with the SS Lieutenant at his behest. In one scene he is in her living quarters speaking as if she is not Jewish, he is in fact seeing her in a different light than the other Jews. He's going on and on, almost confused as to what he wants to do with her when the time comes that she needs to be sent to Auschwitz where she will face certain death. He is speaking like he cannot live without her; he is treating her like she is a human being. She never says anything when he speaks to her in this scene, but then everything changes when he begins to blame her for his "irrational and unclear thinking," immediately he then proceeds to beat her. When genocide occurs, it strikes a nerve in everyone when it is one country or one type of people going after another. When it occurs within a state or nationality is still wrong, but looked upon as them doing it to themselves. What happened to the Jews in Europe as Germany progressed in World War II was in fact genocide. It was the Germans looking down upon the Jewish community as monsters, witches, and simply put people that the world would be better off if they ceased to
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