Surely Schindler should have been "The German Winton"?
Not diminishing his remarkable achievements, but Schindler did make money out of some of the arrangements he made.
Winton did not.
What he did, he did in a true, unalloyed spirit of humanity, and his humility is an example to all.
Righteous among the nations.
So are you suggesting that making money is wrong, Jim? If I remember, Schindler ensured that muh of what his Jews produced was actually of poor quality or simply didn't work.
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No.
I'm suggesting that Winton's achievements outshone those of Schindler.
I would dispute this strongly.
Sir Nicholas was, without doubt, a man worthy of great respect for what he did - over 800 children rescued from Prague in 1939.
Now, it is that date that is important. It is before the war had actually started, before the crystalisation of the 'Final solution to the Jewish Question'.
Schindler's factory was taken over by the Nazi's to produce goods for the German Army, pots, pans and shells among other things. His factory and workforce were moved to Auschwitz, I think, and it he used his contacts to do the best he could to keep his Jewish workforce from harm. He himself was under investigation by the Gestapo on more than one occasion and was lucky to survive by using Nazi's that he knew far too much about who were terriffied of what he might say if he were tortured.
As to charging the Jews to get them out, Schindler died destitute, he used the money he collected to pay bribes to the Nazi's to get his people out.
Please do not belittle Schindler because he was German and, initially a Nazi and a profiteer, his later conversion is thus all the more remarkable, or build up Sir Nicholas because he was British, they both deserve the greatest respect for what they accomplished.
