Oskar Schindler, immortalized in Steven Spielberg's 1993 prize-winning film, Schindler's List, was a man who rescued the oppressed and brought them new life. He was born on April 28, 1908, in Moravia, Austria-Hungary, now the Czech Republic. After completing his education, he worked as a commercial salesman, changing jobs many times during the 1930s. He tried other businesses, but soon went bankrupt due to the Great Depression, which gripped Europe at the time. Though a citizen of Czechoslovakia, Schindler started to work for the German military intelligence service, eventually joining the Nazi Party in 1939.

As an opportunistic businessman, he sought to profit economically from the German invasion of Poland in 1939. He gained ownership of a factory in Krakow that manufactured enamelware.…