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... "Schindler's List," and like the information found in the Jewish Virtual Library, the storylines follow the life of Schindler. Oscar Schindler was born on April 28th, 1908, in Zwittau Czechoslovakia. After the bankruptcy of a close friend's family business, Schindler found himself jobless. Now without employment, Schindler joined the Nazi party, as did many others at that time. Oscar Schindler quickly got on good terms with the local Gestapo chiefs and was recruited by the German Intelligence Agency to collect information about Poles and was highly esteemed for his efforts. He left his wife Emilie in Zwittau and moved to Crakow, where he took over a Jewish family`s apartment. Bribes in the shape of money and illegal black market goods flowed copiously from Schindler and gave him control of a Jewish-owned enameled-goods factory, Deutsch Emailwaren Fabrik. Since the factory was close to a Jewish ghetto, he principally employed Jewish ...
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