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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 Austro-Hungarian town of Zwittau, saved at least 1,000 people. In 1919 the Nazi Party was formed. In 1928, Schindler married Emile Pelze. During this time he was a Nazi. Even though she is his wife, she doesn't play a big part of Schindler's life, which shows one of Schindler's many faults. He showed devotion to her and all of the others', but it was to his Jews that he showed the most compassion to (Jack L. Roberts, page 8-10).
I believe that personal faults do not decide if you are a hero or not. I strongly believed that, as demonstrated by Schindler, your public actions decide this. He was very persuasive, enabling him to find his own way. Oskar Schindler was part of the Nazi party, the very group of people that he later fought against. He was a heavy drinker and an egotist, a profiteer, a crook, an opportunist, and a womanizer. "But in the end, to more than eleven hundred Polish Jews none of that mattered. To these survivors Oskar Schindler was simply, yet...
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