Was Oskar Schindler Justified Essay

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Famous Russian president, Vladimir Putin once stated, “We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.” He stated this during the terrorist attack on a Southern Russian school back in 2004. While Vladimir seemed to be saying this for reasons that may be justified, so was Hitler. Hitler put people in prisons and destroyed them to make Germany a better place, or so it seemed. Vladimir used the threat to offer justice to terrorists who clearly deserved to be punished. Regardless of who the threat is directed towards, the end result always ends in disaster, for everyone. Oskar Schindler is an example of a courageous man who suffered even though he wasn’t locked up in a prison camp. Oskar Schindler, who saved over 1,200 Jews, …show more content…

A CNN report stated that a North Korean prison camp victim told authorities there was a mother who was beaten to death for giving birth to her child. She was beaten and was forced to drown her baby in the water until his screams stopped. If prisoners even get anything to eat, they sneak out to eat grass and soil, just to feel something in their stomachs. Oskar Schindler saved more than 1,200 jews back in World War II from having to do the same. Working in Oskar Schindler’s ammunition factory meant a safe and secure place to hide out from guards. It also meant a life, and some …show more content…

Winton set up the refugee system and saved nearly 669 Jewish children from being killed in the Holocaust. Nicholas a few years back was invited to a taping of a show called “That’s life”. The host simply asked who in the audience owed their life to Winton and most of the audience stood up. The audience, Winton later found out, was all or most of the children he had saved nearly 50 years earlier. Oskar Schindler, who had saved over 1,200 Jews, had his Jews return and they helped him move to hide from the Nazi party, as well as visiting his grave after his death in 1974. “Forget all the reasons why it won’t work, and believe the one reason why it will,” an anonymous man once wrote. There two men forgot about themselves, along with all of the reasons that this was a bad idea and would end in disaster. They went anyways and created a system that helped escape nearly 2,000 Jews all together. Without them, those 2,000 Jews might have been counted in the death rate during the Holocaust, But because of those two brave men, two thousand more people survived a terrifying war that killed millions of

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