Schindler's list

Description: This film depicts the heroic actions of Oskar Schindler, a German war profiteer who, because of his fundamental humanity and great courage, saved more than 1,100 Jews from death in the Holocaust. The film is based on an exceptional "novel," Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally. The word "novel" has been applied to this book only because the dialogue and certain details are fictional. Mr. Keneally based the book closely on events reported to him by …showed first 75 words of 1469 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1469 total…as an "Aryan." It was this man who first introduced Stern to Schindler saying "You know, Stern, you can have confidence in my friend Schindler." However, it took years for Stern to fully trust Schindler. It was difficult to sort through Schindler's greed, high living, close association with Nazi officials, and membership in the Nazi party, to see the real man. These were the very traits that permitted Schindler to survive detection by the Nazis.