In 1993, legendary director Steven Spielberg released two groundbreaking films, which could not have been more different from one another.

The first was Jurassic Park, a thrilling summer blockbuster and special effects landmark about bringing dinosaurs back from extinction, horrible grandfathers, and Newman's side gig.

The other was Schindler's List.

Widely considered one of the most heart-wrenching films ever made, Schindler's

tells the true story of Oscar Schindler, a German industrialist who, through his

ammoware and ammunition factories in occupied Poland and Czechoslovakia, succeeded in saving

over a thousand Jewish workers' lives.

Thanks to Spielberg's film, Schindler is today perhaps the

best known of the so-called righteous among the nations, individuals recognized by the

Yad Vashem Memorial Institution for assisting Jews and other victims of the Holocaust.

But Schindler was far from alone and his story bears striking resemblance to that of

another, more obscure figure, a fellow German

businessman named Otto Veit. This is the story of Nazi Germany's forgotten other

Oscar Schindler. Otto Max August Weight was born on May the 2nd, 1883, in Rostock Mecklenburg,

to working-class wallpaper hanger Max Weight and his wife Augusta. In 1888, the Veit family moved to Berlin, where Otto completed his schooling and joined

his father's business as a painter and gilder.

While traveling around Germany, Veit became interested in the political philosophy of anarchism,

making initial contact with anarchists groups in Hamburg.

Upon returning home to Berlin in 1903,

Veit became increasingly involved in the movement, even becoming an editor for the newspaper

Der Anarchist. Naturally, anarchism, like all radical movements, was viewed with suspicion

by the German imperial state, and Veit soon came under observation by the political police,

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