Schindler opened his enamelware factory in 1939, Krakow, Poland. This was after he had joined the Nazi party in 1936, he was a part of the intelligence agency. Schindler's factory consisted of about 1,750 workers, but the fact was that about a thousand of his workers were Jewish. Schindler had to try to hide that he was kind to his workers from the Nazi officials as Hitler rose to power. He employed these Jews to save their lives. If a Jew worked in a factory, they could not be sent to concentration camps where they would be tortured. Because Schindler employed these Jews to his factory, he managed to save about a thousand lives. While his workers were in his factory, he treated them humanely rather than being cruel and inhumane.
During a routine 'sweep' of the factory, where a Nazi official had come to inspect the factory to see if the Jews were being treated like slaves, there had been a worker taking a break after his long hard work. The Nazi official saw the man resting and was about to give him an absurd punishment, but Schindler stepped in and stood up against the official and he lightly smacked the worker to save him from the wrath of the Nazi official.
Schindler was always very kind to his workers, and he never treated them how everyone else in the Nazi party did. Thus, Schindler took his stand against everyone in the Nazi party by going against their beliefs to save lives. While Oskar did not literally stand up in front of Hitler physically, he did it by finding loopholes and hurting his operations by saving Jewish people that Hitler wanted to get rid of. While Hitler believed that all Jewish people were the source of their problems, Oskar stood against these beliefs because he knew not all Jews were bad. Schindler even went to Zionist leaders in Budapest on several occasions to testify about the Nazi mistreatment of the Jews.
Behind Hitler's back, he gathered information by simply acting as if he was a normal person part of the Nazi party. Through this, he managed to operate in the shadows without Hitler noticing. Schindler would attend normal Nazi gatherings but only to receive information on what was going on so he could save the lives of his workers. In this way he was a spy. No one knew about his secretive doings except him and his workers. Not only did he deceive Hitler, but he managed to deceive a handful of Nazi officials.
During a routine 'sweep' of the factory, where a Nazi official had come to inspect the factory to see if the Jews were being treated like slaves, there had been a worker taking a break after his long hard work. The Nazi official saw the man resting and was about to give him an absurd punishment, but Schindler stepped in and stood up against the official and he lightly smacked the worker to save him from the wrath of the Nazi official.
Schindler was always very kind to his workers, and he never treated them how everyone else in the Nazi party did. Thus, Schindler took his stand against everyone in the Nazi party by going against their beliefs to save lives. While Oskar did not literally stand up in front of Hitler physically, he did it by finding loopholes and hurting his operations by saving Jewish people that Hitler wanted to get rid of. While Hitler believed that all Jewish people were the source of their problems, Oskar stood against these beliefs because he knew not all Jews were bad. Schindler even went to Zionist leaders in Budapest on several occasions to testify about the Nazi mistreatment of the Jews.
Behind Hitler's back, he gathered information by simply acting as if he was a normal person part of the Nazi party. Through this, he managed to operate in the shadows without Hitler noticing. Schindler would attend normal Nazi gatherings but only to receive information on what was going on so he could save the lives of his workers. In this way he was a spy. No one knew about his secretive doings except him and his workers. Not only did he deceive Hitler, but he managed to deceive a handful of Nazi officials.
All these people were saved because they ended up on Schindler's list, a list that Schindler composed of all the people who worked in his factory that he was determined to save-- the picture on the left shows his original list. He stood up for these people and ensured their lives, but not because of some moral belief, because he had grown an emotional attachment to these people. Oskar consistently bribed Nazi officials so they would not harm his workers, Schindler truly cared for his workers. Schindler was arrested 3 times because he was suspected of harboring Jews. He eventually relocated his factory to Brünnlitz, Monrovia and the people on his list were the people who were going to be sent to work in his new factory. His workers on the list were sent to his new factory the day before his labor camp was liquidated.