Oskar Schindler was a German industrialist spy during World War II. He is responsible for saving the lives of over 1,000 Jews, from Nazi concentration camps by employing them in his ammunition factories. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland, starting World War II. Schindler left his wife, Emilie Schindler and traveled to Poland , hoping to make money from the impending war. Looking for working opportunities, he quickly became associated with the black market. By late october , Schindler used his charm and distributed out “gifts of gratitude” to bribe high-ranking German officers. Wanting to expand his business interests, Schindler obtained a former Jewish enamelware factory to produce goods for the Nazi military. Schindler renamed the factory ":Deutsche…show more content… With the help of Itzhak Stern (A accountant for the enamelware factory), he found causes to employ more Jewish workers, no matter their skills. By 1942, a little below half of his employees were Jewish and were known as "Schindlerjuden", which means Schindler Jews. When the Nazis began to relocate Poland’s Jews to labor camps, Itzhak Stern and several hundred other Jewish employees were among them. In 1944, Plaszow (concentration camp) transitioned from a labor camp to a concentration camp and all Jews were to be sentenced to death camp at Auschwitz. Schindler requested Göth (SS Captain) to allow him to migrate his factory to Brnĕnec, in the Sudetenland, and produce Nazi supplies. He was told to write a list of workers he wanted to relocate. With Stern’s help, Schindler drew up a list of 1,100 Jewish names he considered “essential” for the new factory. It was granted and the factory was moved. Not wanting to to help the German cause, Schindler instructed his workers to make defective products that would fail inspection on purpose. The Jewish employees spent the remaining months of the war in the
