Oscar Schindler: A Profiteer-turned-hero

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COURSE: HISTORY                           NAME: GUAN JIE XUE                  DATE: FEB.23, 2011

Oscar Schindler: A Profiteer-turned-hero (Rough Draft)

Throughout the history of mankind, certain great men have stepped up to the challenges of leading a nation to independence, guiding a nation through turmoil. Moreover, they consistently defended their religious beliefs no matter what, and even put their lives on the line every day to protect and secure the safety of others. These men are traditionally regarded as heroes in the grand human society. As a matter of fact, it is not extraordinary that these heroes reached such achievements. Because most of them had stayed on the same track all the way through, the track which they always believed as the orthodox one. In comparison, Oscar Schindler was certainly a particular hero who chose another route and turned himself completely around, against his own country, culture and the inherited belief system, as a result he saved the lives of 1,200 Jewish people during the crucial holocaust periodwe can definitely accept him as a hero and he was no more and no less a hero then everyone else who resisted Nazism during World War II.

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Schindler’s attitude toward the pitiful Jewish people changed, while the other Germans were persecuting them. His compassion and respect for them had gained as he gradually came into contact with them. At first he was a cynical and greedy exploiter of slave workers in Krakow, who was entirely driven by the luring profit like every other usurping German industrialist. In view of the fact that the original reason he employed Jews in his factory was because Jewish labours were a lot cheaper than the “Poles”, he did not intend to save them at all in the first place. But somewhere ...

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