Sudeten is a term used to describe ethnic Germans from a politically contested region that belonged to Czechoslovakia in the time leading up to World War II. Oskar Schindler and his wife, Emilie, were both Sudeten Germans.
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Chapter 36
...of another one of Schindler’s wildly generous whims. Steinberg was a doctor in a small Sudeten work camp. He heard a rumor about Brinnlitz and visited the camp to see if...
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