How did Schindler manage to get workers moved to his factory?

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Key Moves Schindler Used to Relocate His Workers

1. Claiming Workers Were “Essential” Schindler designated many Jewish workers as essential to the war economy—first for enamelware production, later for munitions—and used this status to protect them from SS deportation orders. This helped him argue that they shouldn’t be sent to camps or killed.

2. Bribery and Connections with Nazi Officials He repeatedly bribed SS officers, Amon Göth (commandant of Płaszów), and other officials to allow favorable exceptions. These payments helped him secure permission to maintain a sub-camp at his factory and later to transfer his workers to Brünnlitz.

3. Setting Up a Subcamp at His Factory Schindler persuaded Göth to let him establish a subcamp at his “Emalia” enamelware factory in Kraków for Jews working at his plant. This gave him greater control over their safety, living conditions, and whether they'd be sent to death camps.

4. Preparation of Lists (“Schindler’s Lists”) As Nazi plans to close down camps and move inmates toward extermination intensified, Schindler arranged to have lists made of workers eligible for transfer. Jewish associates (notably Marcel Goldberg and Mietek Pemper) compiled and typed them. These lists determined who would be sent to Schindler’s munitions factory in Brünnlitz instead of being deported to Auschwitz or other camps.

5. Relocating the Factory and Workforce In October 1944, Schindler got permission to move from Kraków (where Emalia was located) to Brünnlitz (in what was then German-controlled Sudetenland). He managed the transfer of about 1,100 people—around 800 men from Plaszów and others including women (some mistakenly sent toward Auschwitz but rescued with further bribes) to work in his “factory camp.”

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If you want, I can also map out the historical vs movie differences in how these moves are shown—there are some notable gaps.