The Importance Of Oskar Schindler During World War Two

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During World War Two there were many evils that lurked about, that people to this day, still deny happened. The Holocaust, for example, took place when Hitler took over Germany and mass collected, removed, and exterminated Jewish men, women, and children. Over 6 million Jewish people died during the course of World War Two, people that will never be forgotten. There are many movies that try to depict what exactly happened to the Jewish people during this time, but there is no film more impactive than Schindler’s List. In this film, Liam Neeson plays as Oskar Schindler during World War Two. Oskar was the man who erased Jewish people’s names off the concentration camp lists and brought them to work for him in a safe environment. He worked closely …show more content…
Most people believe that one man can not make a difference in a world full of bad, but that is in fact incorrect. Oskar made a huge impact around the entire world with his good deed. He did not do it for money, for fame, for personal joy, but for the purpose of saving innocent people’s lives in any way that he could. Jewish people all over the world know who he is and he is responsible for many Jewish people’s children and grandchildren. He saved the innocent from having a cruel death fit for a criminal. If you really look at Oskar Schindler and analyze the movie, you can see how his expressions changed with Jewish workers after he saw the bodies of men, women, and especially children being burned. No child could have committed a crime or done something so bad to deserve a death like millions of them got. Oskar knew that and knew that they had done nothing wrong. He acted on his belief right under the Nazi’s noses and ended up winning that war. He won those Jews and won their freedom even though he was only in it for himself in the beginning. In the movie it was talking about how Oskar felt he owned his workers, that they were his and no one elses. The Nazi’s disgareed and said that they all owned the Jews, everyone who is a true German owns the Jews. Oskar was trying to keep his workers in his factory by saying that. He didn’t want anyone else to have them because those were the …show more content…
Nazi’s were ordered to execute any Jew who didn’t finish a job, was too old to work, and sometimes even to young to work. They herded Jewish people into train cars, raped women, split up families, and incinerated mass amounts of Jews when another shipment was coming or the camp was closing down. If you were a Jew during that time, you would hope and pray that your camp would stay open and that you did everything correct. There was no mercy, there was only brutal punishment for any little thing. During the war, the Final Solution was put out which was the reason why all Jewish people were treated in this way, held captive, and locked up without freedom. It was basically the mass destruction/genocide of all people in discriminatory claims. Not only was the Final Solution a popular term used in Germany during that time, but the Holocaust was another. Anyone who was Jewish, a gypsy, disabled, had a different sexual preference, and was dark in color was put into these concentration camps and was apart of the Holocaust. It was not

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