Oskar Schindler

Schindler grew up in Moravia and joined Nazi military intelligence in 1936, collecting information on railways and troop movements before the German occupation of Czechoslovakia. He joined the Nazi Party in 1939 and acquired an enamelware factory in Kraków that year, which employed about 1,750 workers at its peak in 1944, including 1,000 Jews. His intelligence connections allowed him to shield his workers from deportation, trading ever-larger bribes and black market goods for their safety. In July 1944, as the SS began liquidating camps and sending prisoners to Auschwitz, Schindler convinced t…