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I protested that I was no relation to Oskar Schindler, but this did not seem to make any difference to her.
"Perhaps as a reflection of France's relatively smaller economic role, Mr. Strauss-Kahn's exit appeared to create little concern and have much less impact internationally than the resignation in March for political reasons of his German Social Democratic counterpart, Oskar Lafontaine."
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).
The novel tells the story of Oskar Matzerath, who was born in 1928 in Danzig (as Grass himself was), a city on the border between Germany and Poland.
In an earlier scene, he seemed a figure from a Nazi-era movie: a Jew obsessed with a German woman, in this case Oskar's mother, whom he begs on bended knee to run away with him to London.