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Schindler's List - Were his deeds righteous or not?

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English: Steven Spielberg at the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con International (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Steven Spielberg ’s masterpiece motion picture, Schindler’s List , is a true-life chronicle of the German Nazi, Oskar Schindler , who used his connections with the Nazi regime in the Second World War to preserve the lives of hundreds of Jewish prisoners. When Hitler set his unstable mind on the annihilation of the Jews he had them sent to concentration camps where the prisoners did hard labor until they were executed en masse in gas chambers. Schindler, even as a Nazi himself, grew to find this reprehensible. But he couldn’t just come out and say so. To resist Herr Hitler was to risk finding yourself in a concentration camp, or dead. So, Schindler used his entrepreneurial acumen as a ruse to save the lives of the condemned Jews. He procured a steelworks factory that had formerly produced pots and pans and converted it into a munitions factory, cranking out countless casin