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.