This week I watched Schindler's List. Schindler's List is a true story about a Oskar Schindler, a business man, who uses the cheap labor of Jews in his factory. He moved to Czechoslovakia to start his factory where he make weapons for the German military. At first Schindler didn't know how hard it was going to be to run a factory, so he gets loans and tips. The factory pleases many Nazis and Germans. Schindler hires Jews because they cost less than Poland people.
The Jews who work in his factory can't be sent to concentration camps but they live in the ghetto. Schindler encounters a masacre. They were getting rid of a ghetto to build a concentration camp and Schindler watches as Jews after Jews get killed. This affected him greatly, and he had a change of heart. He wanted to make as much money as he could to save as many Jews as possible. Soon enough after that the Nazi's were ordered to send the rest of the Jews to concentration camps, or the ones not willing to kill them. Schindler wants to keep his workers, he says he is going to move them to a factory near his home. He made a list. They let him keep his workers and he puts them on trains. The women and children's train accidentally got sent to Auschwitz. When Schindler found out he rushed straight there to get his people back. At first the Nazi's weren't willing to give some of the kids back, but Schindler eventually got them all back. Schindler went completely broke spending all his money on the Jews, buying them to save them, and bribing the Nazi soldiers to leave them alone.
The German soldiers surrendered and Schindler and his wife had to flee from the Soviets. The next morning the Soviets let Schindler's Jews know they were free. They let Schindler know through a letter that he was not their enemy and they were grateful for what he did for them. I liked this movie, it was really touching. Schindler was a really brave man to do what he did. This is a great way to show that not all Germans were the enemy.
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