Schindlers List

Oskar's wife Emilie worked at the Brunnlitz factory looking after people who were ill or unable to do much work, and Oskar kept control of the SS Guards. He refused to let them on the factory floor, so that his workers were not in danger of being beaten or shot, and he bribed them with food and alcohol, to keep them sweet. Oskar was arrested at one stage for kissing a young Jewish woman, in public at his birthday party, a violation of the laws that forbade sexual contact between Jews and Aryans. However he managed to bribe his way out because of his friends. He was spending more of his money, just keeping the factory open and hte Jews alive, and buying up working shells to pass off as his own. When Goth was removed from his post because of corruption charges, Schindler who often visited him, took away his two maids and gave them sanctuary in his factory. By the time the war ended, Schindler had spent nearly all his money and he and Emilie fled the factory leaving the Jews to be liberated by the Red Army. THey had a letter from the Jewish workers which they could give to the Americans to show that they were not war profiteers but had saved the lives of 1200 people. Oskar had spent everything. He and EMilie moved to South America but he had never been a very solid businessman. He liked the schmoozing side of the job, but did not succeed at any businesses he set up after the war. He left Emilie, never having been faithful to her, and returned to Germany where he went on trying to make his living, but he ended up depending on remittances form his Jews. He was traumatised by his supreme effort during the war and could not seem to have any success afterwards. He was invited to Israel as a Righteous Person and eventually he was buried there...... in gratitude for what he had done.