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27/11/2004
Schindler biography causes controversy
A new biography of the German businessman Oskar Schindler has caused controversy claiming he was the not the man presented in Thomas Keneally's book Schindler's Arc, later made into a film by Stephen Spielberg.
The book claims that the famous 'list' containing the names of factory workers he saved from concentration camps, was not drawn up by Schindler. Based on recently discovered documents, the book is by an American history Academic called David Crowe.
Entitled Oskar Schindler: The Untold Account of his Life, Wartime Activities and the True Story behind the List, it asserts that Schindler was in jail when the list was drawn up and it was put together by other people.
Professor Crowe, who also works with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum said in a New York Times article that, Steven Spielberg was "a very wonderful, tender man, but Schindler's List was theatre, and not in an historically accurate way." Thomas Keneally countered this by saying that while Schindler may not have written the lists himself, he was "personally responsible for the fact there was a list".
The book also alleges that Schindler was in charge of a German unit instrumental in planning the Nazi invasion of Poland.
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