![]() In February 1939, five months after the German annexation of the Sudetenland, he joined the Nazi Party. Schindler began working with the Amt Auslands/Abwehr (Office of the Military Foreign Intelligence) of the German Armed Forces in 1936. ![]() He also served in the Czechoslovak army and in 1938 attained the rank of lance corporal in the reserves. ![]() After the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the end of World War I, Schindler became a citizen of the newly established Czechoslovak Republic.Īfter attending a series of trade schools and marrying Emilie Pelzl in 1928, Schindler held a variety of jobs, including working in his father's farm machinery business, opening a driving school, and selling government property. Schindler was an ethnic German and a Catholic. Oskar Schindler (1908–1974) was born on April 28, 1908, in Zwittau, Austria-Hungary (today Svitavy, Czechia). ![]()
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