"He came to my house once, and I put a bottle of cognac in front of him, and he finished it in one
sitting. When his eyes were flickering - he wasn't drunk - I said this is the time to ask him the
question 'why'? His answer was 'I was a Nazi, and I believed that the Germans were doing wrong...
when they started killing innocent people - and it didn't mean anything to me that they were Jewish,
to me they were just human beings, menschen - I decided I am going to work against them and I
am going to save as many as I can'. And I think that Oscar told the truth, because that's the way
he worked."
- Murray Pantirer, a Schindler survivor asked Oskar Schindler why he helped the Jews and he was given this
answer.
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