Schindlers List. Schindler's List is based on the true story of Oskar Schindler, a German businessman in Poland who sees an opportunity to make money from the Nazis' rise to power and the on going war

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Schindler's List

The movie begins in September of 1939 in Krakow, Poland, with the Jewish community under increasing pressure from the Nazis. Schindler's List is based on the true story of Oskar Schindler, a German businessman in Poland who sees an opportunity to make money from the Nazis' rise to power and the on going war. He wants to starts a company backed by Jews who can no longer own businesses to make cookware and utensils. Schindler brings in accountant and financier Itzhak Stern to help run the factory.

March 1941, the Krakow Jewish community gets forced into living in "the Ghetto". Once again list makers set up there tables and dived the Jews and give then housing assignments. Thinking it couldn't get any worse, they didn't realize these list makers would slowly begin to eliminate this group into only a thousand. Now that money no longer had any meaning and couldn't help them anymore, the elders with substantial money agreed to invest in Schindler's factory and the DEF (Deutsche Emailwarenfabrik) is born. A long with convincing these wealthy Jews he uses flattery and bribes to win military contracts and get in good with high