Re:Ask HN: Have you ever regretted working on a product?
by cyphar on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @08:11AM
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Oskar Schindler was a Nazi party member who owned an ammunitions factory and saved 1200 Jewish people in Nazi Germany (the movie Schindler's List was based on his life story), but I couldn't find any mention of him sabotaging his own wares. I would imagine this would've led to more suspicion on his factory, where he secretly employed many Jewish workers illegally.
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Re:Ask HN: Have you ever regretted working on a product?
by sjcsjc on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @09:13AM
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>> sabotaging his own wares
The movie implies that he did so:
"Stern, if this factory ever produces a shell that can actually be fired... I'll be very unhappy."
Re:Ask HN: Have you ever regretted working on a product?
by abecedarius on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @10:47AM
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It's a great movie, but I wouldn't depend on it alone for a fact like that.
The Lives of Others, another serious and moving film, shows the protagonist solo-monitoring a dissident in order to not report the latter's dissidence. The Stasi required its spies to work in pairs to plug that specific vulnerability. This was crucial to the plot and gave people a false idea of what resistance to a then-modern tyranny is like. (Disclaimer: actual East German dissidents have approved of the movie, while I'm just a guy with an opinion.)