Oskar Schindler (April 28, 1908 - October 9, 1974)
Today is the birth anniversary of Oskar Schindler, the Nazi party member and a German industrialist who saved thousands of Jews (the 1200 Schindlerjuden or the 'Schindler Jews' in his factories and their over 8000 descendants now), from Hitler's concentration camps and gas chambers.
The movie Schindler's List is a milestone event in telling us the larger-than-life humanitarian side of Oskar Schindler who initially thought of and made quick money by manipulating the Jew resources and manpower in the Nazi ghettos for Jews.
Oskar Schindler tells us the 'good in us' is certainly more powerful and is as universal as the evils like Nazism or Fascism.
It just needs its spark. Realizing it is individual. Schindler could realize it. Countless others couldn't. And this prospect about 'good' and 'bad' sides of humanity is timeless.
This final scene from the movie directed by Steven Spielberg is a moving tribute to the Man and to the 'good' side of being a human being, to the 'good' in all of us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIp_8RNNX4k
The conversation as filmed in the movie, as sourced from IMDB:
Oskar Schindler: I could have got more out. I could have got more. I don't know. If I'd just... I could have got more.
Itzhak Stern: Oskar, there are eleven hundred people who are alive because of you. Look at them.
Oskar Schindler: If I'd made more money... I threw away so much money. You have no idea. If I'd just...
Itzhak Stern: There will be generations because of what you did.
Oskar Schindler: I didn't do enough!
Itzhak Stern: You did so much.
[Schindler looks at his car]
Oskar Schindler: This car. Goeth would have bought this car. Why did I keep the car? Ten people right there. Ten people. Ten more people.
[removing Nazi pin from lapel]
Oskar Schindler: This pin. Two people. This is gold. Two more people. He would have given me two for it, at least one. One more person. A person, Stern. For this.
[sobbing]
Oskar Schindler: I could have gotten one more person... and I didn't! And I... I didn't!