...Beginning with a character named Oskar Schindler who was a Nazi businessman interested in becoming a war profiteer. Schindler capitalizes on the changing economic times and war with a goal of economic gain. He begins this scheme by befriending the Nazi SS officers and later to befriend a well known successful Jewish accountant, Itzhak Stern. Schindler’s goal is to take over a confiscated pots and pans company and turn it into a manufacturing company to provide cookware kits for the troops. Manpower for such a plant is more profitable with Jewish employees that get paid less than the Polish. The Jewish employee’s compensation is being paid back in products that can be traded on the black market as well as safe keeping from becoming shipped off to concentration camps. As time goes on and the Nazi’s force the Jews into small walled-in areas referred to as ghettos. The only was to leave the ghetto was to have worker paperwork. Without your paperwork you were subject to consequences to include execution. With Schindler’s factory becoming known as a safe place, more people wanted to work for him in any capacity. With the influence of Stern and the increasing gravity of the situation in Krakow, Schindler seemed to become more protective over the Jewish especially his employees. A keen example of this is when Stern was placed on a cattle car to possibly go to a concentration camp because he forgot his work papers and Schindler was adamant in finding and saving him...
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...Character types in Schindlers list: Oskar Schindler: Oskar Schindler, war profiteer, womanizer, and Nazi Party member, becomes the unlikely hero and savior of about 1,100 Polish Jews during the Holocaust. He is essentially a con artist and moderately successful businessman who recognizes the potential for profit in wartime. He buys a formerly Jewish-owned enamelware factory and uses bribery and ingratiation to procure military contracts to make war supplies. At the beginning of his quest to become rich, he is indifferent to the Jewish situation, which he sees as merely an unfortunate result of war. A playboy with a large ego, Schindler routinely cheats on his wife and joins the Nazi Party not for ideological reasons but because it will help him make more money. Although he purchases the factory after it has been confiscated from Jewish owners and is given an apartment appropriated from wealthy Jews, Schindler feels no remorse and does not consider the origins of his good fortune. Schindler, initially concerned only with himself and the success of his moneymaking scheme, undergoes a change that prompts him to spend his fortune to save the lives of those he once exploited. His motive is never completely clear—and indeed, the real Schindler never revealed his motivations. However, the film does suggest that at least one of his incentives was obvious: Schindler simply could not sit by and watch people he knew be sent to death. His metamorphosis from a man of indifference to one...
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...survivor. Published in the year 1982, the book is a remarkable piece of literature that has won many awards including the Booker Prize in 1982. Keneally began his writing career as a writer who wrote ordinary books until he met Poldek Pfefferberg, the man who encouraged him to write Schindler’s List. Pfefferberg met Keneally in one of his stores and requested him to write the book, to raise awareness relating to the Holocaust system and the misery of thousands of Jews under the Nazis. At the same time, Keneally wanted the world to know about the good deeds of one man over evil. It was later made into a film in 1992, which won many academy awards as well. Schindler’s List tells the tale of a remarkable German businessman, Oskar Schindler, who with his wealth and manipulating abilities helps save the lives of thousands of Jews from being terminated by the Nazis. Keneally takes us back to 1939 when Germany invaded Poland and occupied its territory. Their extreme hatred towards the Jews forms one of the themes of this book. The Nazi soldiers were ordered to round up the Jewish families, separate the men and the women and move them to concentration camps. Set in Krakow, Poland, the book describes the conditions of the Polish Jews in these camps and their silent despair. Keneally describes Oskar’s childhood in his hometown Czechoslovakia. He describes his struggle to start a new life after moving to Poland. In search for a profitable business, Oskar meets Itzhak...
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...Oskar Schindler was portrayed as an extremely dynamic character throughout the movie, since his identity was subject to many drastic changes. In the beginning of the story, we were introduced to a dark and despicable man. A rich business tycoon who was identified for his multiple affairs, as well as his active participation in the Nazi party. Even though he did not follow the ideologies of the fascist group and joined solely for the purpose of gaining riches, he still provided aids to the Germany Army through his numerous factories and businesses. This made him simply a bad man in the eyes of the audience from the start. However, as Schindler was more exposed to the horrors truly being committed against the jewish people, he was characterized as a completely different human. This was kickstarted when he was advised by Itzhak Stern, his accountant, to hire Jews as workers for his factory. Oskar agreed to do so only because he would be paying them far less than Pole...
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...Oskar Schindler was born in 1908 in the city of Zwittau, Moravia which is now part of the Czech Republic. Oskar grew up and attended a German-language school. Oskar's mother, Louisa Schindler, was a homemaker father, and Oskar’s father, Hans Schindler, was a factory owner . Oskar had one younger sister named Elfriede.. when Oskar was child, Schindler was popular and had many friends, but he was not a good student at all. In the middle of his friends were two sons of a rabbi. In the 1920s Schindler worked for his father selling farm equipment. In 1928, Oskar married a young woman named Emilie which caused problems in Oskar and his dad’s relationship which eventually led to Oskar leaving the family business. Meanwhile, the political landscape in Europe was undergoing major changes, Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party began their rise to power. Hitler began stirring up ethnic feelings among the Sudeten Germans, pointing out that their "rightful" ties were with Germany, not Czechoslovakia. By 1935 many Sudeten Germans joined the pro-Nazi Sudeten German Party. Schindler joined, too—not out...
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...movie follows Oskar Schindler, a Nazi made famous by saving 1.100 Jews from Auschwitz IIBirkenau. In 1939, the Nazis relocated the Polish Jews to the Krakow Ghetto, divided into two sections: A (Jews able to work) and B (Elderly and the infirm) as World War II began. Oskar Schindler comes to town in hopes that he can make money on the war, and he starts out by making many important Nazis his friends. Schindler starts up an Enamelware fabric, using Jews instead of Poles, because they are cheaper. He hires Izthak Stern, a Jewish accountant, to basically run his business, and as Stern hired the Jews, he made sure they were made Essential Workers, meaning they would be spared from concentration camps and/or death. Amon Goeth arrives in Krakow, where he will be overseeing Plazów concentration camp, a camp for the Jews of the Krakow Ghetto. Goeth orders the Krakow Ghetto section B to be exterminated and sends the section A Jews to Plazów. Schindler watches as the Nazis kills and terrorizes the Jewish Ghetto and obviously gains sympathy. Schindler befriends Goeth and talks/bribes him into letting some of the Jews work in his factory/sub-camp, this allows Schindler to both have his business run smoothly (by the help of Stern, who also helps Schindler bribe SS officials) and protect the Jews. While staying in Plazów Goeth picks out a Jewish girl to be his housekeeper, Helen Hirsch, and even though he does consider Jews to be rats, he falls in love with her. Schindler tries to save as many...
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...List shed light on people like Oscar Schindler helped Jews escape the Nazi genocide regardless of the risk to themselves and their families. The movie focused on one of the most darkest and horrific period in history. Millions of Jews were killed because of their ethnicity and religious beliefs. Schindler’s list enables people to understand the plight of the Jewish people in spite of all the atrocities committed against them. The movie revolves around a man called Oscar Schindler, whose main goal is to make money from the Jews relocation by attaining his own factory. He eventually procures a factory making army mess kits for the German military. Itzhak Stern a Jewish council member convinces several Jewish businessmen to lean Schindler the money to open the factory in exchange for small profits. Once Schindler has the funding to open the business, he hired workers from the Krakow ghetto, falsified documents to the government stating that the workers were needed for the war effort, so that these workers wouldn’t be sent to concentration camps or killed. As Schindler gained more wealth and power he had more experiences which tested his every moral fiber of his being and affected the decisions he made. After the Nazi completed a new concentration camp in Plaszow, they received orders to exterminate all the Jews in the Krakow ghetto in which Schindler witnessed the slaughter. After witnessing various executions of innocent Jews, Schindler wrestled with his conscious and he...
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...I believe that Oskar Schindler made a difference in history. The reason is that he bribed his money to have Jews work for him in order to keep his business going on during the war. Schindler is a member of the Nazi party and he bribed and paid money to the SS so that they would not execute the Jews and or hurt them. The Jews were thankful when he saved them from death and poor hospitality. Another person that is like Oskar Schindler is Berthold Beitz who is an director of an oil refinery in Poland. Oskar Schindler made a difference in history. Schindler saved 1,200 Jewish lives from certain death. The reason for that action is that he would not lose business of making products during the war. Later on, he would have his business produce ammunition for the war to support the Nazis that are fighting the Allies. The Jews were forced to make different types of ammunition that the Nazi’s used in the war. In the next paragraph, we would talk about how Schindler got the Jews....
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...The holocaust is a tragedy that the entire world wished had never happened. In 1982 Thomas Keneally wrote Schindlers Ark which was based on the accounts from a Holocaust survivor. This story was later developed into a screenplay by Steven Zallian later to be a film directed by Steven Spielberg. Spielberg made the film to educate those who tried denying that persecution on such a grand scale ever happened. Though filmed in black and white the director chose to highlight a few images in color to draw attention and elicit emotion. The actress who portrayed “the little girl in red” is 24 years old now but the impact the film had on her disturbs her to this day. We are introduced to the girl in the screenplay on page 52; she is described as wearing small red shoes. In the movie the director chose a jacket instead of just the shoes. I think this was merely because it could be viewed easier by the audience. But why do both screenplay and movie use the color red. I believe red was chosen because it is a bold color that stands out but it is also the color of blood. It can be assumed that its significance was chosen to represent that amount of bloodshed during that time. The scene takes place in one of the ghetto’s. The screenplay describes this taking place during dawn. In the movie it appears to be later in the afternoon, but it is the weather that plays a more important role than the time of day. The movie sets the scene during a rainy and dreary day to coincide with the events that...
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...“CASO : SCHINDLER INDIA” I.- RESUMEN EJECUTIVO Schindler holding Ltda., unos de los mas prestigiosos fabricantes de escaleras mecánicas y ascensores del mundo, decide en el año 1998 expandir sus operaciones en la India apostando así un mercado en crecimiento y lleno de oportunidades que la compañía no dejara pasar. Buscando un modelo diferenciador para la llegada de la empresa a la India, Schindler Holding implantar un modelo de ascensores diferente a los ya existentes en el mercado local, apostando así a una reducción de costos de fabricación de ascensores estandarizados como la subcontratación de la totalidad de los componentes de proveedores locales y así poder establecer diferencia entre los competidores establecidos en el sector.- Para llevar a cabo dicho plan estratégico, Schindler brinda toda la confianza en la puesta en marcha del objetivo planteado a Silvio Nápoli, Ejecutivo joven de la compañía educado en la universidad Harvard, quien viaja junto a su familia a este nuevo desafío que la compañía a puesto sobre sus hombros.- Nápoli en la búsqueda de lograr implantar su plan de negocios, se vera expuesto a varios obstáculos en el desarrollo del plan de negocios establecidos con anterioridad para la empresa, estos provienen desde su misma compañía como también de factores externos que generan al final fuertes cambios en los diseños establecidos originalmente en los modelos de ascensores para la India.- Finalmente Nápoli tendrá que tomar decisiones...
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...The germans occupation of Poland was an ideal situation for a man like Oskar Schindler, a businessman and opportunist. Krakow was made seat of government for Nazi-occupied Poland. As more Officers and SS troop entered the city, new ways to profit from the conflict arose. One of the first scenes in the movie shows Schindler for the opportunist he was. He is shown drinking, laughing with and befriending high ranking Nazi Officers. The Nazis brought new opportunities for profit and Schindler makes sure to cultivate the right contacts to assure that he will secure his share. In 1939 Hitler invaded Poland. In real life, within a week of the invasion, Schindler moved to Krakow to find a way to benefit from the Nazis occupation. During this time he met Itzhak Stern. With money he borrowed from aquaintences of Stern’s, Schindler purchased a kitchenware factory and opened it in 1940 He hired Stern as his accountant and used Jews from Kracow ghetto as his work force. During this time Shindler had cultivated friendships with Officers in both the German Army and the SS. Through these friendships and with a few bribes, Schindler was able to secure numerous army contracts for pots and pans manufactured in his newly opened kitchenware factory. The persecution of Jews began immediately after the German Occupation. The Germans took over Jewish properties and seized companies, houses and valuables. The Jewish living quarter, know as the Krakow Ghetto was created on March 3...
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...Schindler India case The ascend of Silvio Napoli up the corporate ladder of Schindler was swift enough to give him greater responsibilities than most managers possess at the age of 33. The business plan to enter the Indian market was a strategic one – one which meant greater presence of Schindler in the market elevating its market share and revenues. There were several challenges though, in the process that presented themselves like two-edged swords to Napoli and company. Napoli was in-charge of the project and had to be accountable for the happenings in India to Alfred Schindler and the VRA. Amongst the various personal and business issues, the key issue that was of the highest concern for Napoli while setting up the plan in India was the fact that the project had over-run its development time and had not yet registered its first sales in spite of the business plan conjuring sales of 50 elevators in the first year. The cost of importing the raw materials and the plant to set up the manufacturing facilities was of an even greater concern for Napoli. Already lagging behind in the costs and the time targets, Napoli had to conjure up things so that within the next 4 months he would be in a position to begin selling in the Indian market. It is true that he had a team of exceptional managers under him, however, this did not help him fight the uncertainties laden with the project – standardization was one standard that was not consistent for the company. There were more instances...
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...evaluate Silvio’s first seven months as general manager of the Indian company? What advice would you offer? De entrada se debe ser consciente de la incertidumbre que siempre existe al abrir nuevos mercados, especialmente en tales como lo es la India. A esto hay que sumarle lo comentado en la pregunta anterior y es que curricularmente Napoli no tenía experiencia en la ejecución de planes de negocio y desde Schindler lo sabían. Éstas, son dos realidades que se debían tener en cuenta antes de evaluar a Napoli. Analizando sus primeros meses, vemos que afrontó los siguientes desafíos: a. Aprobación de los directivos indios de un ascensor no estándar, que requería una pared trasera de cristal. b. Las presiones en los costes debido a los incrementos de los aranceles aduaneros sobre los componentes de ascensores importados. c. Aumento de precios de transferencia de las líneas de productos de bajo costo importadas de las fábricas europeas de Schindler. d. Las peticiones de piezas y especificaciones de diseños e ingeniería no eran atendidas por las plantas europeas de Schindler. Personalmente creo que, aunque los...
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...Schindler’s List Essay Oskar Schindler would never have been anyone’s ideal savior, especially for the Jewish community. He was an open member of the Nazi party, a womanizer, a gambler, an alcoholic, and an extremely money hungry man, but insight of all of this he was successfully able to rescue over twelve hundred Jewish men and women from death. Schindler was a very tall and handsome man. Needless to say, he was adored by all the young women he met eyes with. However, Schindler fell for a beautiful young girl named Emily. After only six weeks of courtship, they were married. Sadly, after only a few months of marriage, Schindler began to heavily abuse alcohol. He also had several affairs resulting in two children out of wedlock. In 1929, during the Great Depression, the Schindler family business went bankrupt. At this time, Schindler’s father left his mother, and she died soon after. Finding himself jobless, Schindler sought work in nearby Poland as a machinery salesman. The saving of the first Schindler Jews began in 1939, when he came to Krakow in the wake of the German invasion. In Krakow, he took over two previously Jewish owned companies that dealt with the manufacture and sales of kitchenware products. In one of the businesses, however, Schindler was merely a trustee. Looking more for his own power, he opened up a small enamel shop right outside of Krakow near the Jewish ghetto. Here, he employed mostly Jewish workers. This in turn saved them from being...
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...Source: wallpapers.pixxp.com Case Study Silvio Napoli at Schindler India Was Silvio the right choice? hochschule hof University of Applied Sciences Univ ersityof Applied Sciences PROS: He developed the business plan Int. Experience CONS: Age and family situation Personality and cultural background (France & USA) Experience with Swatch Project Lack of adaptation to foreign cultures No similar post before Well educated No sales and technical experience in the elevator business 2 Was Silvio the right choice? hochschule hof University of Applied Sciences Univ ersityof Applied Sciences Blindly sticking to his business plan Lack of soft skills Failed to convince the team of his plan Harsh leadership style not suitable in India Probably not the right person for this particular position as general manager 3 How to evaluate the Silvio`s first seven moths as general manager? hochschule hof University of Applied Sciences Univ ersityof Applied Sciences “The first step is always the hardest!” Teething problems in establishing the business Still in the “learning process” Too ambitious plans Having build a reasonable management team Sold the first elevators (although customized) Having failed to meet the demand of the Indian market 4 How to advice Silvio? hochschule hof University of Applied Sciences Univ ersityof Applied Sciences Do you still want to work for Schindler in India? Better adapting to Indian values in terms of leadership...
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