Schindler's List Directed by Steven Term Paper

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Hitler's anti-Semitism was an integral compound of German nationalist ideology in its radical form and his ideas of Holocaust and expropriations from Jews were met with enthusiasm of Nazi fanatics. Such practices led to the feudalist brutalism, as a majority of German military enterprises were using slave labor of Jews and Slavs, turning on of the most democratic European economies, into a totalitarian one, which practiced slave labor.

Besides mercantilism of Germans in the years of WW2, which was stimulated by anti-Semitic policies of Nazi government, an integral component of Nazi administration became corruption, which quickly spread all over state and army hierarchy. Corruption is an integral component of any dictatorship or authoritarian regime, it may be masked but it's always present. Schindler's manipulations with German officials, his bribes and "presents" to different Nazi officials help him to save his workers from being killed or sent to concentration camps. In more global scope corruption which was present not only in Germany or Poland but on the Soviet occupied territories was demoralizing German army and apparatus, as a number of fascists, even those who were devoted to Hitler's ideas of Nazism, didn't consider neglecting of some norms for personal enrichment to be a serious crime.
Making a conclusion I would like to say that the individual exploit of Oskar Schindler was not the only one in the history of the WW2. Perhaps, he was one who saved the biggest number of Jewish refugees, but in every country there were thousands and millions of common citizens who did their best to save their countrymen in the years of war, no matter what nationality they were: Jews, Gypsies or Slavs. Human-hating ideology of Nazis didn't spread all over Europe, as chauvinism was and remains alien for all Eastern and Western European nations, as it contradicts with Christian values of humanism and morality which form the basis of Western civilization. Anti-Semitic ideology of Germans failed, as it didn't find support among population of occupied countries of Eastern Europe, neither it was supported by most of German allies.….....

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