…by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories in occupied Poland and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
…by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories in occupied Poland and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
His wife said that saving those people was the only good thing he ever did. He cheated on her shamelessly, was mostly terrible at running his businesses, was a drunk. Overall he was mostly a lout.
When he fled from Germany, he took his mistress with him, riding in the car behind him and his wife. The guy who made that ring they gave him, from the scene at the end of the movie, said he had mixed feelings about it because Schindler’s character was so bad.
But still, when it counted, he came through.
Sometimes that’s enough.
They’re also missing part of this story:
He came into the office, explained who he was, and said that his Nazi membership and war profiteering had actually been a secret humanitarian activity, and they needed to give him money. The person hearing the story was pretty skeptical. Then the German Jewish clerk from the office walked in and saw who Schindler was. His jaw dropped, and he fell on his knees and started stammering out thanks to Schindler for what he had done.