German police arrest 22 in neo-Nazi internet raid

Skybird · 11-05-10, 08:31 AM

Schindler was an opportunist. The opportunity to seize lucrative business contracts made him entering the party. He also was a bon vivant, and he combined both when becoming a party animal on parties of Nazi figures.

However, this does not mean he complied with the Nazi ideology. His witnessing of the cruelty by which Jews were treated by German occupators led him to his resistence against the regime, by getting his factory rated as a factor vital for the war, thus falling under jurisdiction giving him privileged rights how to handle it. this he used to bring Jewish slave workers into safety by demanding them to be recognised by the authorities as urgently needed workers in his factory. He took many personal risks and gambles to safe and protect "his" Jews and save them from deporation and execution. There shall n ot be any doubt that he did not act by the motive of exploiting them in his factory. When he had decided to try to rescue Jews, the former economic opportunism of his did not play a role in his motivation anymore. He also invested and totally consumated all his former wealth for supplying "his" Jews with food and the items needed for life.

If in Israel people would think of Schindler as having been a "Nazi" indeed, they would not have honoured him and build him a monument and invited him to live in Israel when after the war he economically failed and was poor, which in his last years he did for half of every year.

He carried a party badge. But was he really a Nazi by conviction? I say no. What he was guilty of, before he "switched sides", was opportunism for economic profit. That is not an attribute winning him sypathy, for sure. But what counts is that he made up his mind and then made a decisive correction in his actions and behavior, at high risk to his personal life - he was arrested and interrogated by the Gestapo several times, because they were very suspicious about his factory.

I don't know if he was a great man. But he was a courageous man who in the end did the right things and made the right decisions even in the face of danger, no matter his beginning as an opportunistic businessman, (and before that workijng for German intelligence). And that is what counts.

11-05-10, 08:31 AM	#11
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,707 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Schindler was an opportunist. The opportunity to seize lucrative business contracts made him entering the party. He also was a bon vivant, and he combined both when becoming a party animal on parties of Nazi figures. However, this does not mean he complied with the Nazi ideology. His witnessing of the cruelty by which Jews were treated by German occupators led him to his resistence against the regime, by getting his factory rated as a factor vital for the war, thus falling under jurisdiction giving him privileged rights how to handle it. this he used to bring Jewish slave workers into safety by demanding them to be recognised by the authorities as urgently needed workers in his factory. He took many personal risks and gambles to safe and protect "his" Jews and save them from deporation and execution. There shall n ot be any doubt that he did not act by the motive of exploiting them in his factory. When he had decided to try to rescue Jews, the former economic opportunism of his did not play a role in his motivation anymore. He also invested and totally consumated all his former wealth for supplying "his" Jews with food and the items needed for life. If in Israel people would think of Schindler as having been a "Nazi" indeed, they would not have honoured him and build him a monument and invited him to live in Israel when after the war he economically failed and was poor, which in his last years he did for half of every year. He carried a party badge. But was he really a Nazi by conviction? I say no. What he was guilty of, before he "switched sides", was opportunism for economic profit. That is not an attribute winning him sypathy, for sure. But what counts is that he made up his mind and then made a decisive correction in his actions and behavior, at high risk to his personal life - he was arrested and interrogated by the Gestapo several times, because they were very suspicious about his factory. I don't know if he was a great man. But he was a courageous man who in the end did the right things and made the right decisions even in the face of danger, no matter his beginning as an opportunistic businessman, (and before that workijng for German intelligence). And that is what counts. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.