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German industrialist Oskar Schindler is well known today (thanks to a 1993 Steven Spielberg movie) for saving the lives of more than 1,000 of his Jewish employees during the Holocaust. However, Schindler’s story and involvement in the Nazi party is more complex than its Hollywood portrayal.
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Oskar Schindler's Life before World War II
Born a Catholic of German ethnicity in 1908 in what is today the Czech Republic (formerly Austria-Hungary), Oskar Schindler attended multiple trade schools and then spent several years attempting to establish himself as a businessman, doing everything from selling government property, to starting a driving school, to selling farm equipment.
As an ethnic German living in what was then the Sudetenland, Schindler subscribed to the Nazi Party belief that Germany should annex this territory, and in 1936, began working for Amt Auslands/Abwehr: the German Armed Forces’ Office of the
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Oskar Schindler
1908-1974
Who Was Oskar Schindler?
Oskar Schindler was born into a German Catholic family in 1908. After attending trade schools, he worked for his father’s farm machinery company. He worked for German intelligence and later joined the Nazi Party. An opportunist businessman with a taste for the finer things in life, he seemed an unlikely candidate to become a wartime hero. During the war, however, he operated a factory that employed more than 1,000 Polish Jews, saving them from koncentration camps and extermination. In 1993, his story was made into the Steven Spielberg movie Schindler’s List.
Quick Facts
FULL NAME: Oskar Schindler
BORN: April 28, 1908
DIED: October 9, 1974
BIRTHPLACE: Svitavy, Sudetenland (modern day Czech Republic)
SPOUSE: Emilie Pelzl (1928-1974)
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Taurus
Early Years
Schindler was born April 28, 1908, in the city of Svitavy [Zwittau], in the Sudetenland, now part of the Czech Republic. The eldest of two children, Oskar
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Oskar Schindler
German industrialist and humanitarian during the Nazi era (1908–1974)
For the similarly-named racehorse, see Oscar Schindler (horse).
Oskar Schindler (German:[ˈɔskaʁˈʃɪndlɐ]ⓘ; 28 April 1908 – 9 October 1974) was a German industrialist, humanitarian, and member of the Nazi Party who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories in occupied Poland and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. He is the subject of the 1982 novel Schindler's Ark and its 1993 film adaptation, Schindler's List, which reflect his life as an opportunist, initially motivated by profit, who came to show extraordinary initiative, tenacity, courage, and dedication in saving his Jewish employees' lives.
Schindler grew up in Zwittau, Moravia, and worked in several trades until he joined the Abwehr, the military intelligence service of Nazi Germany, in 1936. Before the beginning of the Germa