Oskar Schindler quotes

Oskar Schindler was a German industrialist and member of the Nazi Party, best known for saving the lives of more than a thousand Jews during the Holocaust. His efforts involved employing Jewish workers in his factories and protecting them from deportation and death. He is remembered as a humanitarian who risked everything to save others in a time of great darkness. Here are 11 of his quotes:

I hated the brutality, the sadism, and the insanity of Nazism. I just couldn't stand by and see people destroyed. I did what I could, what I had to do, what my conscience told me I must do. That's all there is to it. Really, nothing more.

Oskar Schindler

Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen.

Oskar Schindler

I knew the people who worked for me. When you know people, you have to behave towards them like human beings.

Oskar Schindler

Now you are finally with me, you are safe now. Don't be afraid of anything. You don't have to worry anymore.

Oskar Schindler

I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.

Oskar Schindler

What is there to say? They are my friends. I would do it again, over and over - for I hate cruelty and intolerance.

Oskar Schindler

We must differentiate between guilt and duty. The soldier on the front, like the common man, who does his duty everywhere, should not be held responsible for the actions of a few who also called themselves Germans.

Oskar Schindler

The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.

Oskar Schindler

The persecution of Jews in occupied Poland meant that we could see horror emerging gradually in many ways.

Oskar Schindler