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Indeed, in the book Schindler's List, there are two persons named Schindler: Oskar Schindler, the protagonist, who was a Catholic Sudetendeutscher (ethnic German from Bohemia or Moravia); and a Brigadier Schindler, an official with the Wehrmacht procurement office in Berlin (who one presumes was not Jewish).
Thernstrom's anecdote about how Powell became brigadier general is ambiguous on its face.
She offers as an example Powell's promotion to brigadier general by President Carter's Secretary of the Army Clifford Alexander.
He was replaced eventually by a brigadier general named La Fayette C. Baker, who recorded his exploits of derring-do in a memoir called The Secret Service in the Late War (1874)--the first in a long line of agents' kiss-and-tells (click for a brief review).
One reason Powell wasn't on the original list is that he was, at 42, below the age normally considered eligible for promotion to brigadier general.