Oskar Schindler

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