“Schindler’s List,” is a powerful, compelling, and captivating movie that focuses on World War II and the brutality of it. It is based on the true story of Oskar Schindler, a member of the Nazi Party, who comes to Poland looking for profit, and leaves as a hero. The movie starts off with Oskar arriving from Czechoslovakia in hopes of using the Jews as cheap labor to manufacture enamelware for the German military. Supported by the military, Schindler obtains a factory. Not knowing much about how to run such a business, he gets Itzhak Stern, who is part of the local Jewish Council. Stern suggests to Schindler that he should hire Jews instead of Poles because they are cheaper to employ, which he ends up doing. Stern falsifies documents to make sure that as …show more content…
Once it is completed, the SS clears out the Krakow ghetto, sending in troops to empty rooms and shoot anyone who protests, is uncooperative, elderly, or infirmed, or for no reason at all. Overlooking the ghetto from a hill, Schindler and his girlfriend watch the destruction. He sees a little girl in a red coat (the only color in the whole black-and-white scene) walking through the destruction. Schindler is automatically affected and moved by what he sees. From then on, Schindler begins saving Jews by using his personal items as bribes to bring them to his factory. He is careful to befriend Göth, and at the same time, convinces Göth to let him build his own sub-camp to house his factory workers (with the intention of keeping them safe). Later on, Göth is commanded to exhume and destroy all bodies of the people killed in the Krakow ghetto, to take apart Paszów, and send the remaining Jews to Auschwitz. Schindler decides to spend his fortune to save as many Jews as possible. He persuades Göth to sell him his workers that he will send to a factory in Czechoslovakia, which he reluctantly agrees to, charging a certain amount for each