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Oskar Schindler: A True Hero
Oskar Schindler was born 28th of April 1908, Oskar Schindler is a over all hero, he continually risked his life while trying to safe others at all cost, he made very courageous decisions without any second guessing about how much trouble he would be put in if he was caught doing this action, with Oskar being in the prior experiences also made his operation all the more ricky. With all Oskar went through he still reminds unknown to many people today.

As Oskar Schindler grew up he worked in several trades up until he joined the Abwehr intelligence service of nazi Germany, where he became a spy in 1936, due to his prior german occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1938 while doing this he collected information about the railway troops and their movement and gave it to the german government. He was then arrested by the Czech government for espionage but was the released by the terms of Munich Agreement in 1938, but Schindler didn't take much notice to this experience as he continued to work of Poland in 1939 until the invasion of Poland which started world war 2.

Due to this in invasion Oskar Schindler moved to Krakow from Svitavy in October 1939. while he was here he took advantage of the German occupation program to “Aryanize” and “Germanize” Jewish-owned and Polish-owned businesses in the so-called “General Government”. he also brought
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risking he own life to save another, “An ordinary man who even in the worst of circumstances did extraordinary things, matched by no one.” , “Oskar Schindler is a hero to over 6,000 Jews currently living across the United States and Europe. Schindler was an ordinary man with extraordinary power that he used to save 1200 human lives during the Holocaust of World War

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