Carrie
11-25-2004, 11:15 PM
The Guardian (http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,12589,1359102,00.html)
Oliver Burkeman and Ben Aris in Berlin
November 25, 2004
Historian claims industrialist helped Nazis invade Poland.
As a Nazi party member credited with saving more than 1,000 Jews from the Holocaust, Oskar Schindler was nothing if not a complex personality. But newly unearthed evidence suggests that he may have been far more complicated - and rather less heroic - than the character immortalised in the Steven Spielberg movie Schindler's List.
According to a new biography of the German industrialist, there was no Schindler's list, the legendary document containing names of Jewish employees at his Polish factory who were designated as "essential workers" and thus spared from the concentration camps.
Full Story (http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,12589,1359102,00.html)
Oliver Burkeman and Ben Aris in Berlin
November 25, 2004
Historian claims industrialist helped Nazis invade Poland.
As a Nazi party member credited with saving more than 1,000 Jews from the Holocaust, Oskar Schindler was nothing if not a complex personality. But newly unearthed evidence suggests that he may have been far more complicated - and rather less heroic - than the character immortalised in the Steven Spielberg movie Schindler's List.
According to a new biography of the German industrialist, there was no Schindler's list, the legendary document containing names of Jewish employees at his Polish factory who were designated as "essential workers" and thus spared from the concentration camps.
Full Story (http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,12589,1359102,00.html)