Schindler’s List, a black and white movie, directed by Steven Spielberg, was set in Krakow, Poland, during World War II. The main protagonist of the movie was Oskar Schindler, a man whose only interests at the beginning of the movie were gaining a personal profit from the war. He was quite the hustler, philanderer, and con artist. In an attempt to benefit from the war, Schindler established an enamelware factory. There, he hired Jewish people because they were the cheapest labor available. Itzhak Stern, Schindler’s Jewish accountant and soon-to-be ally, was very intelligent and quickly realized that the enamelware factory could become a safe haven for the persecuted. The workers of the factory were deemed as “essential” to the war effort and ;therefore, they were not transported to death …show more content…
Stern immediately began filling the factory with as many expendable Jews as he could. Schindler was initially unaware of Stern’s intentions until one day when a one-armed worker came into his office to express his gratitude to Schindler. Then, a few days later, Oskar watched in horror as his workers were removed by military force from their homes in the Kraków ghetto to the Plaszów concentration camp. He observed a young girl wearing a red coat amble down the street as men were shot in the head and whose bodies would collapse right in front of her. Repelled by the carnage and bloodshed, Schindler rode away on his horse to Amon Goeth’s mansion. Amon Goeth watched over the Plaszów camp and represents the evil side of the Nazi party in the movie. He often killed Jews without reason because he believed they were considered to be vermins. Schindler, now representing the moralled side of the Nazi party in the movie, bribed Goeth to let him build his own subcamp to house his factory workers. Shortly after, Goeth was ordered to exhume and burn the bodies of at least 10,000 Jews. Schindler watched as the young girl in the red coat is thrown into the pile of