Schindler’s List

Schindler’s List

by

Thomas Keneally

Marek Biberstein tries to get Reichert, a man with connections in the SS, to pass on bribe money so that more Jews will be allowed to remain in the Cracow ghetto, despite orders for them to be moved out. The attempt is unsuccessful. Oskar Schindler says that Reichert is clearly a “crook,” but Stern muses that sometimes dealing with crooks is the only available option.
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...try to prevent this as much as possible. In particular he bribes a man named Reichert, who has contacts in the SS. Eventually, the scheme is found out, and both Biberstein... (full context)