How Did Oskar Schindler Change During The Holocaust

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Beyond this Day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen. -Oskar Schindler
Oskar Schindler saved over 1,200 of his Jews during the Holocaust. A bankrupt Nazi Suatt to make a difference during the Holocaust, Oskar Schindler’s heart was changed by the jews who worked for him. Oskar Schindler joined the Nazi Party or The German Armed Forces it 1936. He was born on April 28, 1908 it Svitavy, Moravia, at that time a province of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. He married Emilie Pelzl in 1928. Ten Years later he served it the Czechoslovak army in 1938 and attained the rank of lance corporal it the reserves. He had a variety of jobs, including working in his father’s farm machinery business it Svitavy, opening a driving school in Sumperk,

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