dant of the Plaszow forced labor camp. He was the man that Schindler dealt with to buy the people he saved. He had experience at three other camps: Sobibor, Belzec, and Treblinka. He was a cruel man, and got true pleasure out of watching others suffer, particularly Jews. He would pass his mornings by using his high-powered, scoped rifle to shoot at children playing in the camp. He often used it as an incentive to work harder or faster. For example, some young men hauling coal were moving too slowly for his liking, so he shot one of them so the rest would move faster. He was tried and hung after the war, and defiant and arrogant until the end, he saluted Hitler right before he was hung. (Bulow “Oskar...”).In the movie Schindler’s List, Goeth is portrayed exactly as he was, a cruel, heartless, drunk, womanizer. The movie goes so far as to show the actions he actually did. Some of Goeth’s ideas of ‘fun’ are described, and in the movie, they show him shooting a man pushing coal, basically just for the hell of it.In total, Schindler, over 1,000 people. The numbers vary slightly depending on which source is being looked at. However, most sources agree on a number between 1,200 and 1,300. To think that this many people owe their lives to one single man is incredible. At the end of the movie Schindler’s List, the remaining survivors and their descendants are shown, along with a list on-screen, of how many people Schindler saved, and how many descendants there are today “German Rescuers...”, Bulow “Why Did He Do It?”, and Bulow “Oskar Schindler” are sources that are in agreement with those numbers.In the movie, Schindler is shown bribing, and lying consistently to get the people he wanted. He pays off Goeth for each person he adds to his list to the point where he is broke. In real life, Schindler did exactly that, spent money saving Jews, until he was ...
