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These are my thoughts on the Holocaust and the movie Schindler’s List. First impression is that the killing of humans is wrong, especially to the point of extinction. It’s just inhuman, people who could take orders to do that to people and some of the Nazi’s General would kill for fun. I see it personally has a sign of evil, it’s just pure evil.
Schindler’s List was truly an amazing, and just a great story. Oskar Schindler was wonderful at the beginning, and to the end. Oskar Schindler didn’t have much in the start, but he grew into a wonderful business man, not knowing he was helping the Jews at first. Oskar was a good man none the less, he really didn’t care that he was helping the Jewish people. The Jews praised him for getting them a job, even though Oskar only saw them as workers for him and his company. It wasn’t till later in to WWII that he cared for the Jews.
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Basically he just wanted to be known for having a big bundle of money. He liked to party with the German leaders. He also loved his whisky and women, he was a ladies’ man. Personally, what I think changed his attitude during this was seeing that little girl in the red coat running and hiding from German soldiers so she doesn’t die. Later on, Oskar was with one of the Generals when they were hauling off and burning the bodies of the Jews that they had killed and among the bodies was the little girl with red coat from

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