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Oskar Schindler was born in Zwittau, Austro- Hungary.
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Schindler was very close to his sister, Elfriede.
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Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany.
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Oskar Schindler married Emilie at the age of nineteen. They met the year before. Oskar got arrested at the wedding for already being married.
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His family’s firm became bankrupt after the economic depression of the 1930’s, because of this Schindler was left without a job which resulted in him joining the Nazi party
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He joined the office of the military foreign intelligence of the German armed forces in 1936.
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When Germany was invading Poland, Schindler went to Krakow, he took over and was responsible for 2 formerly Jewish owned enamel kitchenware manufacturers.
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Oskar joined the Nazi party because he believed it would look good for his business to go along with what everybody else was doing.
