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Oskar Schindler

What is your paradigm of a hero? Is it someone who is a comic strip hero? Or is it someone who has a remarkable talent for a sport? Perhaps the person you have in mind is a person who has impeccable integrity. Oskar Schindler would not fall under any of these categories. He was a crook, an egotist and a member of the Nationalist Socialist German Workers Party- a Nazi. Even so, he single-handedly saved more than 1,000 Polish Jews, a lot more than any other person in the course of the war. He was outraged at his own people, yet he was no saint. He was a walking oxymoron (Roberts 10).
"By Schindler, we were hungry, but not starving. We were cold, but not freezing. We had fear, but were not beaten" ( A Schindlerjude ,Brecher page xviii). When you are thankful for something, these are probably not the first words you would use. However, this is about the Holocaust, where starvation was very common. Schindler, who was born in 1908 in the......

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