The shot at 2:29 is perfect. Jews on the bottom, Nazi rule on the top, and in the middle one man who plays both sides, protecting the bottom from the top.
The fact that he was corrupt, utterly selfish, a playboy, and completely amoral, was the only reason he was able to accomplish what he did. A truly wonderful imperfect contradictory man, and an amazing transformation.
@@tmfromdenmark9158 I watched an interview from a man and his wife who were saved by Schindler. They literally said "If he was a saint, he could not have done what he did" Watch this documentary on the subject, so that you can stop speaking from ignorance: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MtKJyi3h9aA.html
@@tmfromdenmark9158 Tbf Oscar did start out as a war profiteer determined to milk slave labour. However he certainly changed and sacrificed his fortune and life to save so many. I agree that calling him selfish is nuts, he also started activities to save people before it was clear that Germany might not win the war and certainly before it was clear they were going to lose.
I like the subtle detail of the commandant just standing there, as if considering Schindler's offered proposition, before turning down the opportunity and just leaving along with the rest of his men.
@@alexander1902is that a German protocol? In Commonwealth armies, the senior NCOs arrive first, then the rank and file, then the Jr officers, then the senior officers. Then the senior officers depart first, followed by the Jr officers, then the rank and file and the senior NCOs. To a Commonwealth soldier, this looks like an officer being deserted by his men.
@@StumpfForFreedom well I didn't take into consideration that they had realized they had lost the war and likely no longer had a job or a in some cases a conscription requirement.
Idk if this was just Spielberg taking creative licence in the story or this actually happened and Schindler just had the world's greatest luck EVER, but I found it really convenient that just as Schindler went flat broke, the war ended.
@@AllSystmsGo no, from my understanding, Schindler was using his finances to pay for all the workers he had in his factory (which was a safe haven). So my understanding is if he didn't keep paying the fees, then Schindler's factory would've shut down and all his workers may very well have been executed. So I found it incredibly lucky for Schindler and his workers that just as he lost all his money, the war ended. If it had gone on any further, this very well may have had a far more tragic ending.
@@virtualviking8447 Well the reason his money started running out was precisely because the war was ending. As germany were being pushed back and the war efforts have put the entire german economy focused on purely the war efforts, Schindler is forced to make bomb shells, which none of the workers are qualified for, and start losing his money.
watch europa the last battle. this movie presents what is truly going on think you know the truth, i dare you to watch this documentary in its entirety
That's actually the mourners Kaddish, which is the Jewish prayer for remembering the dead. In this case, this was remembering all those lost during the Holocaust and WW2 during this moment of silence
@@justinboyan573 I mean in this instance the Kaddish was probably being sung just for their dead Jewish friends and family but the Kaddish can be sung for anyone
My grandpa who was in World War 2 was one of the front lines who looked for mines or whatever. He was scared shitless being enlisted. I dont have any stories than that but I bet he killed a few people because there are Nazi metals in my house. One metal given only to women nurses. And another that was an eagle and Nazi symbol.
Many Germans would listen to BBC broadcasts late in the war, mainly because Goebbels propaganda could no longer be trusted. Though the SS hanged people just for listening….
A good movie. But why Hollywood never made a similar about the 7 million Ukrainians exterminated in 1933? The only one I've seen is Harvest of Sorrow, a movie with a second-rate script, no memorable music, unknown director, and even less known actors.
You started asking why Hollywood has never made a film about that subject, and followed it up with an example of a film about that subject. And the answer is simple: most people know about the holocaust. Hollywood aims to get the biggest audiences possible to make the most money, which is why most historical films in Hollywood stick to subject matters that everyone knows about.
Because they're not interested, just like how you're not interested in a movie about the Japanese atrocities in China. Don't go moralizing on us from your soapbox.
@@1957bumpy Fact is a story about people inadvertently starving due to a rejection of Darwinian evolution leading to broken agricultural policy is nowhere near as interesting, shocking, and disturbing as the industrialisation of mass murder for the sake of extermination. The story of dumb bureaucracy and soviet assumed exceptionalism has been explored plenty of times based on an event which is a microcosm of all the problems: Chernobyl. Like with the holocaust, the shocking part isn't purely the number or people affected or killed, it is the politics and cognitive dissonance and delusion surrounding it that leads people to be monsters and cause untold destruction and totally unnecessary and horrific suffering which lasts a very long time. That is what makes a movie, and why things such as famine are more the subject of documentaries rather than movies.
A masterpiece EXCEPT for this speech. Did Spielberg really think he could sum up the Holocaust in a few words from Mr. Schindler? And if I were one of these slave laborers, I'd be far more interested in wreaking revenge on the guards who made my life a living hell for years instead offering forgiveness. After what they'd done to me, I sure wouldn't allow them to just slip away quietly if I could help it.
I hope your an athist, because if you are christian or jewish, you really need to go to church more often if you think that is the way. Your literally arguing like the nazis (the nazis saw themselfs as saviors of germany, saving them from the evil opression of the jews and getting revenge) And if you ever paid any slight moment of attention in history class, then you would know that revenge has never achieved anything except more suffering for everyone. Additionally, this isnt Ausschwitz. This was a factory labour camp in Bohemia/Czechia. It was far more modest then the death camps or ceoncentraiton camps. They were there solely to work, not to get killed. The "kill them all" order referred to in this scene was an order given to all camps to liquidate the prisoners in case the enemy troops were getting close. Its also pretty clear that it wasnt the SS apart from the camp commandant, it was basically average people because in 1945 there werent many prime age men around anymore for guard duty in a work camp. This was done by people not fit to serve on the frontline by this point. Also, revenge isnt justice. Its just adding one more murder and one more murderer to the list. Additionally, you are advocating for collective punishmeant. There is a reason why not a single country with any justice system operates like that. Never be judge and jury and never judge based on affiliation, ethnicity or race. It would make you nothing better then the people you want to get revenge on.
The stupidity of this comment, the Jews were starved beyond belief, made to do hard labor every single day, and were kept in ridiculously small spaces where they could hardly breath because of the overcrowding, they weren’t given anything close to an adequate amount of water for survival. And most of them were gassed or murdered. I’d imagine after all this, anyone would just be feeling thankful that the horrors they had to endure for so long is over. And even if they did have a fighting instinct, I doubt any of them would have the energy because of the lack of provisions given and having there ambition broken in every day for years.
@@noobster4779 I have no idea why you brought Atheism into this. Church going Germans of the 1940s were subject to having Hitler's birthday announced and celebrated from the pulpit, with the full consent of the Catholic church. Why are you hoping that someone who says something emotionally charged is in a different camp to you? Whatever groups you identify with, it is just as full of rotten apples as any other group. Never forget that.
@@thomasshelby4646 The Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising put up a pretty good fight! They held out for nearly a month against incredible odds. Some do have a fighting spirit in them.
The Jews indeed resisting, the resistance started as soon as 1939 with many joined underground resistance units and even joined Allied & Soviet army. The Jews in this scenario/scene is weaponless and doesn't have chance against the guard, their only mercy is Schindler persuasion and charisma to SS guard. Instead of throwing lives into meaningless confrontation, they chose to forgive em and continue to live on.
@@sussy_6998 killing Palestinians, stealing their land, tearing down their houses, and forcing the majority of them to flee to foreign countries the last 75 years makes no difference to you? To Satan?
Both were equally brutal and undemocratic regimes. I agree though that Soviet crimes should be more widely known, we owe it to their victims and survivors to remember, too.
@@quartzy_jane2153 Untrue. The commies are far worse than the national socialists, which is why their ideology spread and killed hundreds of millions. Had NS been successful, it would have eventually died off. NS, unlike the commies, does not promise free land, equality based on nothing and so on..
