Jitka Gruntová
Jitka Gruntová (born May 8, 1945 in Blansko , Czechoslovakia ) is a Czech historian and politician ( KSČM ).
Life
After postgraduate studies in museology at the Masaryk University in Brno , Gruntová worked as a teacher in Březové nad Svitavou from 1991. From 1985 to 1995 she conducted research on the Groß-Rosen concentration camp .
The truth about Oskar Schindler - why there are legends about “good Nazis”
In her book, The Truth about Oskar Schindler - which is why there are legends about "good Nazis" criticized Gruntová perception Oskar Schindler , which especially in the public by the film Schindler's List by Steven Spielberg was coined. The positive reports about Oskar Schindler mostly came from senior employees, while the statements of simple workers received little attention. There were also reports of hunger and abuse. The workers of Schindler also owe their liberation to the Red Army . They bought their survival through their will to survive, hard work and partly their fortune. Gruntová points out that while he was still alive, Schindler wanted to create an image that would transform his role as a war profiteer into a benefactor role. So he got in touch with Fritz Lang to have his story filmed.
“Such works of art serve a purpose: they create and spread legends, not history. You want history to play out like this. With "good", "human" Nazis. The unspoken message resonates: If there were such noble characters in such a criminal system, the whole system cannot have been so criminal. We want to know: Who was this Oskar Schindler who provided the template for such a film? How and where did he live, what did he do or what he did not do? Is it justified to put it on a pedestal? "
literature
- The truth about Oskar Schindler. Why there are legends about “good Nazis”. Translated and edited by Klaus Kukuk, edition ost, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-360-01815-1 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Jitka Gruntová in the catalog of the German National Library
- Review of the book on Le Bohèmien
- Website of Jitka Gruntová
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.databazeknih.cz/zivotopis/jitka-gruntova-9167
- ↑ https://le-bohemien.net/2012/11/13/schindlers-verborgene-listen/
- ↑ https://le-bohemien.net/2012/11/13/schindlers-verborgene-listen/
- ↑ http://www.gruntova.cz/oskar-schindler/die-wahrheit-__ber-oskar-schindler
- ↑ http://www.gruntova.cz/oskar-schindler/die-wahrheit-__ber-oskar-schindler
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gruntová, Jitka |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 8, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Blansko , Czechoslovakia |