14 Real Life Heroes Who Have Changed The World

2. Oskar Schindler

Oskar Schindler was a German industrialist who was part of the Nazi party and is credited for saving the lives of over one thousand Jewish people. He did this by employing them in his factories in Poland where he provided the army with enamel cookware and as time went on, he then bribed members of the Nazi party with money and gifts so that they would not harm his Jewish workers. Initially his business was set up in order to make him a wealthy man and he hired Jews because they were allocated a cheaper wage because of the Nazi regime which was implemented.

This however changed when Schindler learned of the devastating goings on inside the concentration camps, and he fought to protect as many Jewish people as he could. After the war, he was in danger of being arrested as a criminal of war and he was made bankrupt after spending all of his money on bribes and on his employees. He later survived on donations from Schindlerjuden (Schindler's Jews) sent from all over the world by the jews that he saved during the war.