Schindler moved to West Germany after the war, where he was supported by assistance payments from Jewish relief organisations. After receiving a partial reimbursement for his wartime expenses, he moved with his wife Emilie to Argentina, where they took up farming. When he went bankrupt in 1958, Schindler left his wife and returned to Germany, where he failed at several business ventures and relied on financial support from Schindlerjuden (“Schindler Jews”)—the people whose lives he had saved during the war.

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:

Virtually destitute, he moved briefly to Regensburg and later Munich, but did not prosper in postwar Germany. He was reduced to receiving assistance from Jewish organisations.[41] In 1948 he presented a claim for reimbursement of his wartime expenses to the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.

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.