Schindler\'s List Directed by Steven

Schindler's list directed by Steven Spielberg is considered to be of the most famous movies about the history of Holocaust, the most horrible page in the history of the twentieth century. This movie shows triumph of humanism and generosity over absurd mercantilism of Nazi human hating ideology of anti-Semitism. Schindler's List is a story about Austrian businessman Oskar Schindler who started his financially successful carrier on the hardships of Polish Jews in Krakow ghetto, but as a result turned into the savior of his laborers as he harbored 1,100 Jews from Nazis. Understanding the horrors of the Holocausts and his own passive participation in it, Oskar Schindler changes his views and decides to help Jews who were employed on his factory, by the end of the war he becomes a bankrupt as he spent all his fortune on bribing Nazis who were in charge of "Jewish question."

The example of Oscar Schindler was typical for the WW2 period as a number of businessmen who were unsuccessful during free economy era, desired to improve their financial situation on the base of free slave labor of Jews, who were subjected to Holocaust according to Hitler's plan. Such mercantile practices were very common among the whole population of Germany and its allies (especially Hungary), as a number of businessmen and small storeowners wanted to make their own profits on the hardships and misfortunes of others. Most of those who exchanged foodstuff in ghetto on money, jewels and other items of high value didn't have any sympathy to imprisoned Jews but only wanted to make profits on their grief. In fact such businesses were much similar to enterprises located in concentration camps, as labors totally depended upon the will of their owner. Schindler decided to start his business relying only on military sponsors, as he was a member of Nazi party, and on experience of Jews professionals from ghetto. Jews had to loan him money and from his side, Schindler guaranteed them share from the products, which would be produced on the factory in order to have some money to support a relatively bearable living. In such situation, Jews had no choice, but only to trust Schindler. In more universal scope such animosity was resulted by more than 15 years of depression in Germany, when country was experiencing economic stagnation, unemployment and humiliation. Radicalism and ultra nationalism of Hitler's ideology was inevitable, as Germans in majority were still the nation, which was not ready to live under the laws of democratic society, and still experiencing nostalgia for the times of Keiser, time of strict order, pan-Germanism, chauvinist ideology and militarism. Hitler's anti-Semitism was an integral compound of German nationalist ideology in its radical form and his ideas of Holocaust and expropriations from Jews were met with enthusiasm of Nazi fanatics. Such practices led to the feudalist brutalism, as a majority of German military enterprises were using slave labor of Jews and Slavs, turning on of the most democratic European economies, into a totalitarian one, which practiced slave labor.

Besides mercantilism of Germans in the years of WW2, which was stimulated by anti-Semitic policies of Nazi government, an integral component of Nazi administration became corruption, which quickly spread all over state and army hierarchy. Corruption is an integral component of any dictatorship or authoritarian regime, it may be masked but it's always present. Schindler's manipulations with German officials, his bribes and "presents" to different Nazi officials help him to save his workers from being killed or sent to concentration camps. In more global scope corruption which was present not only in Germany or Poland but on the Soviet occupied territories was demoralizing German army and apparatus, as a number of fascists, even those who were devoted to Hitler's ideas of Nazism, didn't consider neglecting of some norms for personal enrichment to be a serious crime.