Oskar Schindler: Transformation from Greed to Savior

At the beginning of Schindler’s List, Oskar Schindler was a man who has only one thing on his mind: money. Schindler was a very smart man, with a plan for everything, nothing would stop him from achieving his goal. He hired a Jewish accountant, Itzhak Stern, and started up the foundation of the company. He warmed up to the nazi officials as a way to ensure their interest in buying from him. Oskar Schindler, in the beginning, was a bit egotistical, selfish, and not a very pure man, sleeping with other women when he already had a wife. Though he was a bit full of himself at times, and a member of the Nazi party,, he never discriminated against Jews. At the start of the business, he bought buys to work for him, not because he wanted them to

He not only spent a large portion of his wealth on employing jews and giving them a job, but he went out of his way to ensure their safety. Unlike many people of the Nazi Party, Schindler was one who always helped other, even at the expense of his own. He was smart about it too, making sure that the other Naizs dont suspect him of trying to help the Jews. Instead of telling Goeth to not kill the Jews directly, to his face, he tried to explain that real power isn't in the killing, but having the power to kill and not doing it. Schindler wanted Goeth to start pardoning people instead of solving all of his problems with a gun. In the scene with the jews being thrown into a crammed cart on the hot day, Oskar saw that they had no air to breathe and they were suffering from the heat. Oskar made the soldiers hose down the carts so that they would be cooled off and air would be circulated into the cart for them to breathe. Another example of why Oskar is a hero is that he did absolutely everything he could to save as many lives as he could. When the guards were throwing pulling the children aside from getting onto the train, Oskar ran and told him that they were “essential” to clean the inside of .45 shells. When he found out that all of the women that he bought had been accidentally transported to auschwitz, he, himself, went to the camp to retrieve them , making sure of their safe deportation to his factory. He made sure that his workers were happy, he not only allowed that to practice their religion, but somewhat encouraged it. He pulled a rabbi aside and asked him why he wasn't preparing for “Sabbath.” Oskar Schindler was an honorable, and noble