The end

Toward the end of the novel, Germany was slowly losing the war. Many prisoners had to undergo many embarrassments  and cruelty. At the beginning of the war Oskar Schindler was a very wealthy man but at the end of the war, his fortunes were drained.  When the war ended Oskar was rewarded and honored by many Jewish Organizations, the survivors of his camps could not of been more grateful and more happy for what he risked his life to do for strangers. He would be thanked for the rest of his life. Amon Goeth, was arrested, at the time of his arrest he was an over weight and cruel man. Two years later, he was thinned out by diabetes and was hanged. Before he was executed, Goeth saluted Hitler. Goeth had no sorrows for what he did, he did not even feel guilty for all the innocent lives he took. In Germany, Schindler was stoned and abhorred. He decided to move to Argentina to become a farmer. Thomas Keneally used great details in this novel, it can be said in my opinion that this is one of the greatest books I have ever read. It was a book that I could almost not put down. His words, have a huge impact on me and made me realize and think about what people had to face during this war.

Sentimentalist

It can be said that Oskar was a gambler, was a sentimentalist who loved the transparency, the simplicity of doing good. Thomas Keneally describes the complex nature of the holocaust in this book with such detail, it shows the true cruel nature and violence that many Jewish and other prisoners of war had to face, but Keneally focuses on the actions and ambitious of Oskar as well. Oskar spends all of his life saved fortunes to protect the Jews. He does the opposite of the what is expected. Oskar continually wines and dines with the SS men, in order to get them to do him favors or to recruit Jewish prisoners into his camp.

Oskar Schindler could see the evil of the concentration camps. Schindler decided that he would start his own camp. Emaila camp. Unlike all the other camps, Oskar made his camp humane and live able. So many Jewish people wanted to live in Schindler's camp. An SS soldier that stood out the most in this book was Amon Goeth. I would say that he was one of the harshest soldier in the concentration camp. He had a fascination with killing people. In the morning he would have a daily killing spree. Every person in the camp was afraid of him. Goeth would find, the smallest  and almost unnoticeable "crime." There was a mother and daughter peeling potatoes, Goeth said they were peeling the potatoes too slowly and shot them both.

Vernichtugslagers

The holocaust is much known for its labor camps, and the gas chambers. Thomas Keneally talks about these in great detail,  I can almost imagine myself being there.  Many people were sent to the Vernichtugslagers (extermination camps). The worst of the extermination camps was Auschwitz, Keneally says that 10,000 deaths a day was normal. The SS soldiers would tell the Jewish people to go into a room, to take a deep breathe, it would "help" clear there lungs. No one ever walked out of that room. The Nazis would take the dead bodies, and before burning them recycle their skin and hair. Keneally does so good at describing these horrors, that it catches my attention greatly.

Girl in the red coat

Oskar Schindler was arrested twice. The first time was not clear of what he was arrested for. His second arrest was for breaking provisions of the race and resettlement act. Oskar Schindler kissed a Jewish girl, and was thought of as a "Jew kisser." The horrors of the Holocaust become more real as you read more in depth in the book. Thomas Keneally goes into detail about the different type of killings in different labor camps.  All children who went to Tarnow were shot, to Stutthof were drowned, to Breslau were to be operated on, and if you were elderly you would be sent to into a room filled with gas. One specific detail in this book that caught my attention, was Oskar Schindler's fascination with a little girl in a red coat. He talks about this little girl with the red coat as if she was conspicuous. This little girl in the red coat would haunt Oskar for the rest of his life.

Movement into ghettos

Further into the book, Thomas Keneally talks about the movement of Jewish people into ghettos  I thought that this was a turning point in the book. Oskar Schindler hired Jewish people to work in his factory, he told them "if you work here, you will survive the war." Many people believed Herr Schindler's words. Thomas Keneally continues to talk about the cruelty of Nazi Germany. In detail, he describes the propaganda that was placed on the streets and the conditions of the ghettos. The conditions that the SS soldiers forced the jewish people to live in were contemptible.

Synagogue

The book Schindler's list opens up in the Autumn of 1943, it describes Oskar Schindler as a tall, classy man with strong features. The first three chapters of Schindler's list by Thomas Keneally were monotonous. They seemed to drag on, and were not interesting to me. I felt that the first three chapters could have ended sooner. Thomas Keneally seemed to drag on about subjects that had little affect to the story. The book started to change in the fourth chapter, it began to talk about the cruelty of the Nazi soldiers. At the end of the chapter, Thomas Keneally talks about the Nazi's going into a  synagogue during prayer, making the Jewish people spit on a Torah, and when Max Redlicht refused to spit on the Torah, the Nazi's shot him and the rest of the people. Thomas Keneally makes it clear that Oskar Schindler does not share the same thoughts or views of the Jewish race as the Nazi's do.