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Schindler's List

Thomas Keneally
1982 · 398 pages

Oskar Schindler, a Nazi profiteer, spent the fortune he made on slave labor buying more than a thousand Jews out of the camps. Keneally builds him from survivors' testimony and offers no explanation.

★ 6.4