"The humanitarian who deceived Hitler" - "At any moment he could have been executed for treason. But for five years he protected 1100 Jews destined to die under Gestapo terror" - Issue of the American CORONET magazine, September 1959. At the center of the issue is a major article with fascinating details about Oskar Schindler and his rescue of Jews by Kurt Grossmann.
An early and fascinating article about how Schindler saved hundreds of Jews from certain death. The writer reveals unknown details of how Oscar Schindler risked himself in order to save as many Jews as possible during the war years. Among other things, it describes how he paid bribes out of his own pocket to Nazi officials every day for each Jewish worker he employed in the factory, tells of Jews unfit for labor whom he hid in the factory in order to smuggle them out through the underground, the Jew Schindler saved seconds before being executed by firing squad by bribing the SS man about to carry it out with a bottle of vodka, how Schindler saved a Jew sentenced to death at Plaszow by a cash bribe shortly before he was to be executed. It also describes how he saved all his Jewish workers by transferring them from his factory producing kitchen utensils to a factory producing strategic weapons for the Luftwaffe, and how he saved a transport of 300 women already on their way to Auschwitz, and the heroic way he rescued his workers until the end of the war. The writer concludes by describing the moving reunion between Schindler and 200 of his Jewish workers in New York in June 1957, and relates the lesser-known fact that even former SS men living in New Jersey after the war involved in real estate named a street "Schindler Drive" in commemoration of his nobility.
186 p. Complete issue. 19 cm. Very good condition.
