By the end of World War II, Oskar Schindler, a greedy Nazi spy, had spent most of his fortune, and created a living legacy, saving over 1,200 Jews from death in concentration camps. Today there are more than 8,500 descendants of the Schindler Jews. Schindler was not the most likely hero. First, he was a Nazi spy. Second, he was greedy. And finally he used cheap Jewish labor to make himself very wealthy in a factory he took over after it was seized from its Jewish owners. Over time, though, the things he saw changed him. Schindler ultimately spent millions of dollars in bribes, and risked his own life to save as many Jews as he could. He became a leader who did what he could do to protect innocent people during a war against them, and he became a ray of hope to a people who had lost everything.
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