Oskar Schindler was someone you wouldn't think to be a rescuer of the Jews. The reason that it is so surprising that he would work to help the Jews is that he was a Nazi.
http://www.shalomshow.com/holocaust_heroes.htm
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/schindler.html
http://www.shalomshow.com/holocaust_heroes.htm
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/schindler.html