When did Oskar Schindler join the Nazi party?

Answer 1

Answer Oskar Schindler/Nazi PartyMy research has shown that Oskar Schindler joined the National Socialist (Nazi) Party in 1939. He applied for membership Feb. 10, 1939 and his membership was granted and he was member number, 6,421,477. He was appox. 31 years of age at the time he joined. He was very charismatic and stood in good stead with many influential Nazi people at that time in Germany. This, plus his obvious wealth, courage, and humanitarian conscience helped him save approx. 1200 Jewish people from death, whom he employed in his enamel-ware factory in Krakow, a short distance from the Plaszow concentration/death camp, where the infamous SS officer, Amon Goeth was commandant. This was portrayed in the Steven Speilberg movie "Schindlers' List" based on the book "Schindlers Ark" by Tom Keneally. (Schindlers original member Nazi party card is still held in the archives of the Berlin Documents Centre (B.D.C.) in Berlin Germany) .Oskar Schinldler has been buried on the Catholic cemetery on Mt.Zion, in Israel. (It also must be known that many historians agree that Schindler joined the Nazi party primarily for personal gain from the status and contacts this afforded him business-wise and maybe not for any reasons of personal belief in anti-semitism or other Nazi idealologies.)

Answer 2

Schindler joined the Nazi Party so that he could better help the Jewish people during their hard times. If he had not done so, the Nazi Party would have looked deeper into his employment records. Most of his employees were Jewish, and they relied on Schindler to protect them from the camps.

Answer 3

After all the interaction he had with the Jews working at his factory, he came to be attached to them as any person would to a friend; initially, he was out to make money from cheap Jewish labour, but by the end he saw Jews as mistreated... just "people". I believe he felt that arbitrarily killing Jews was wrong, and that random killings were a symbol of injustice - because justice is not random.

Or maybe he was hittin' that Jew girl he kissed, in exchange for keeping her friends alive. Nobody knows why only 1100 were on his list...

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Answer 4

Originally, Schindler sought to profit from the German invasion of Poland in 1939, buying a factory in Krakow at a low price and employing Jews as cheap "slave" labour, which he was able to do under Nazi rule. Schindler initially hid wealthy Jewish investors, possibly for profit, but later he began shielding his workers without regard to cost.

Schindler began actively helping the Jews after witnessing a 1942 raid on the Kraków Ghetto, where soldiers shipped the ghetto inhabitants to the concentration camp at Plaszow. Appalled by the murder of many Jews who had tried to hide, he worked to transfer them to a safer place. He was skilled in persuasive speech and often bribed government officials to avoid being investigated.