Oskar Schindler The Untold Account of His Life Wartime Activities and the True Story Behind the List

The first true exploration of the myths and realities of the controversial Holocaust figure. Spy, businessman, bon vivant, Nazi Party member, Righteous Gentile. This was Oskar Schindler, the controversial man who saved eleven hundred Jews during the Holocaust but struggled afterwards to rebuild his life and gain international recognition for his wartime deeds. David Crowe examines every phase of Schindler’s life in this landmark biography, presenting a savior of mythic proportions who was also an opportunist and spy who helped Nazi Germany conquer Poland. Schindler is best known for saving over a thousand Jews by putting them on the famed “Schindler’s List” and then transferring them to his factory in today’s Czech Republic. In reality, Schindler played only a minor role in the creation of the list through no fault of his own. Plagued by local efforts to stop the movement of Jewish workers from his factory in Kraków to his new one in Brünnlitz, and his arrest by the SS wh...

Author: Crowe David M.

ISBN: 9780813333755

Year of publication: 2012

Genre: History, Biographies and Memoirs

Number of pages: 1097

Reading time: 18 h. 17 min.

Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF

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