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Businessman Oskar Schindler (second from left) at a party in German-occupied Kraków. Schindler, who was a member of the Nazi Party, regularly socialized with Nazi German officials in the city. He used these connections to enrich himself and to work around the German occupation authorities' rules and regulations. Eventually, Schindler also used these relationships as he attempted to help protect Jewish forced laborers in his factory. April 28, 1942, Kraków, Poland.
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