Oskar Schindler's List Research Paper

Unlike many other literatures, for example, The Diary of a Young Girl, which reflect resistance to Nazi Germany’s anti-Semitism, Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally was not set to be in the context of Konzentrationslager. Instead, Keneally used a third-person omniscient narrator’s voice to demonstrate how Oskar Schindler, a war-time industrialist and Nazi Party member, saved more than a thousand Jews’ life by employing and keeping them in the humane labor camp in his factory, which he had established in Nazi-occupied Poland, and later, in Czechoslovakia. Oskar’s achievement assuredly earned him the title of “savior of Jews” but he remains a controversial figure. The controversy is well defined by Keneally in the Prologue that “although Herr Schindler’s merit is well documented, it is a feature of his ambiguity that he worked within or, at least, on the strength of a corrupt and savage scheme, one that filled Europe with camps of varying but consistent inhumanity and created a submerged, unspoken-of nation of prisoners”. …show more content…
Even Oskar’s great rescue at last, so to speak, could not avoid controversies on him, let alone his mentality and reactions of the first hour. So, was Oskar anti-Nazi of first hour or merely a collaborating wartime businessman, who only transformed after he witnessing the anti-Semitic brutality? In this paper, I shall argue that the complexity of Oskar’s characteristics and behaviors does not allow me to arbitrarily categorize him into either side of the dichotomy. On one hand, Oskar was anti-regime and friendly to Jews at the first hour, which, by no means, would qualify him as

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