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.