The day after POTUS again said there were very fine people among the tiki-torch marching white supremacists who chanted “Jews will not replace us”; the day after another shooting in a synagogue in CA—remembering the birthday of Oskar Schindler, born 111 years ago, 4/28/1908.

Not anyone’s candidate for a hero: an opportunist and profiteer, member of the Nazi party, a gambler, faithless husband, who made a fortune off slave labor. Yet something impelled him to turn his business into a pretext for saving lives: as many as 1200.