SCHINDLER'S LIST MOVIE REVIEW: th-cam.com/video/JZzS2J-MlFE/w-d-xo.html This Movie Really Left Me Speechless.... Please Share And Like. Tell Me Your Thoughts On This History! I Apologize For The Intro, I Didn't Think It Was That Loud. Ok I Hate That I Have To Do This Sometimes But This Is Really Starting To Piss Me Off, I Have So Many People Insulting Me And My Intelligence Either It Being In A Polite Way Or In A Completely Disrespectful Way. Listen I Knew About The Holocaust Before I Watched This Movie, I Only Knew About 10% - 15% Of The Holocaust. Some People Really Making It Seem Like I Didn't Know Anything About The Holocaust Just Because Of The Way I Reacted To People Dying..... Like Are You Serious? How The Hell Else Am I Supposed To React? 😐 (When I Said I Was Never Taught This In School, I WAS TALKING ABOUT OSKAR SCHINDLER! I Wasn't Talking About The Holocaust.... It's Crazy How Now A Days You Have To Over Explain Everything..) This Was A "Movie Reaction" Not Some Damn School Book Report. Some People Also Think I Didn't Know The Holocaust Because Of Certain Things I Said... Bro Alot Of Things I Said In This Video Was Me Having My Mind Disshuffled, So Somethings Came Out Wrong. Like Yall Need To Chill The Hell Out And Stop Assuming Things And Trying To Interpret What I Say. After I Watched This Movie, I Took A Week A Actually Studied A lot On The Holocaust. Now I Would Say I Know Like 40% Of The Holocaust....
This movie came out when I was sixteen. It took me two or three times to get through it fully. A phenomenal movie about The Holocaust, that to this day some people say never happened. If you get the chance watch Roberto Begnini’s 1998 Best Foreign Film ‘Life Is Beautiful’. Equally powerful and told through the eyes of a European Jewish father in the latter years of the war (‘44-‘45) protecting his son from the horrors and atrocities around him. You will not be disappointed. Slight correction - Life is Beautiful is told through the eyes of a young boy who could not comprehend the horrors but sees it through the perspective his father illustrates for him.
Mellow, in answer to your question about the child in red during the liquidation of the ghetto...I have always thought that she represented Oskar Schindler's humanity or his compassion or empathy. Up until that point, the Jews were just an element in his scheme...a way to maximize his profits. But witnessing the brutality of the Germans clearing the Jews out like that shocked him awake, and he began to see them as human beings for the first time. 🖖✌
I highly recommend you read Night, by Eliie Wiesel. www.amazon.com/Elie-Wiesel-Night-Paperback-Revised/dp/B01FODC88O/ref=sr_1_10?crid=3CUJDT4SNK38Z&dchild=1&keywords=night+elie+wiesel&qid=1617140283&s=instant-video&sprefix=night+eli%2Cprime-instant-video%2C148&sr=1-10-catcorrl
Just 'cause you seemed confused: When Schindler threatened those two guards; "You'll be in southern Russia" he was implying he's have them sent to the Russian front lines, a notoriously deadly assignment for German soldiers. Also Amon Goeth's granddaughter is biracial, and learned about him by chance, when she found a book about her mothers own experience finding out about what he did! It's a whole crazy story, 2 generations finding out by complete surprise.
Worse to ignore , say that to literally the whole world whos ignoring basically the same shit happening with the Uyghurs in Concentration camps in China right fucking now
Don't allow anyone to tell you there is a good excuse for starving, harming, displacing, murdering a group of civilians. Not just for those souls that Hitler murdered.
Little known fact: every time this movie is broadcast on German television, there are no commercial breaks, to truly bring home the gravity of this story and not just have it be handled like a regular blockbuster
@@nathanlewis5682 I mean yeah, why wouldn’t it? It’s a grand but disgraceful part of our history, and the one thing we’re still mostly exclusively known for in the realms of history
The one time I've seen this movie was the first time it aired on American TV. It was presented with no commercials and no editing. My mom knew it was something important for me to see. I was about 12 and it was the first and only time I've seen such cruel violence.
German people own this atrocity and do everything in their power to not let it happen again. Meanwhile in America a huge chunk of the population deny racism is a problem.
Man fühlt sich zwar nicht mehr verantwortlich für die horrenden Verbrechen und Machenschaften der Nazis aber man trägt immernoch die Verantwortung, dafür zu sorgen, dass sie nie wieder passieren.
@@tomerart9544 הי תומר. תרגום לעברית של מה שכתבתי: "הוריו של פרלמן עלו לישראל, פלשתינה של אז, בשנות השלושים. לפני מלחמת העולם השנייה." אין שום התייחסות ל'פלשתין' במשמעותה כיום.
The actors who played the German soldiers would sometimes break down between takes because of what they were portraying. The other actors tried to comfort them, saying "we know this isn't who you are". The most mind bending thing is the violence and brutality in this film is toned down from what really happened. It is so important these stories are not lost so we can try and remember when these events happened so we can recognize the attitudes we they rise around us.
I remember when E! did a behind the scenes of the Film, they said during shooting Ralph Fiennes Scenes, they had some of the Real Life Schindler Jews who remember being around the real life monster Ralph played, and it was said they he was so convincing that when Ralph came out to meet them, they were trembling in fear.
I am Hispanic and raised a Jew. Living in the country. I can understand and experience hatred so easily. I was kidnapped as an infant and sent for adoption so someone in South America can collect a pay check. BTW, Chile is SO pro nazi to this day, it’s sickening. Barely all Chilean population are nazi, just a select few. But still. My crisis of identity has turned me into an alcoholic
@@Bonz-vc8zd my condolences for all the wrongs you have faced, that sounds awful. I've been down the dark road of alcoholism too, being completely hosed was standard protocol for years, it ain't fun. I tried a bigass dose of mushrooms and LSD together about six years ago now and I've been sober since with no effort on my part, it's one of those alcoholic miracles that never happens but did lol. I don't know, maybe see what a couple grams of mushrooms will do for you, it's helped a lot of people kick the sauce. It will help with the psychological aspect of things more than you can possibly imagine.
I’m the grandson of Holocaust survivors, and while I knew plenty about the Holocaust growing up, I hadn’t heard of Schindler at the time I first saw this movie in the theater at age 16.
@L M we spent more time learning about WW2 than almost any other time period. Even in English class I remember reading the book Night by Elie Wiesel in middle school. Watched Schindler’s List in class in high school. It’s just that people don’t pay attention to any of it and they just do the homework and remember enough for the tests and promptly forget about it
Robin Williams used to call Steve Spielberg every week cracking jokes, basically do a stand up comedy act on the phone while Spielberg was filming this movie so he can get a break from the heaviness of the scenes.
19:15 "Is that little girl even real?" She is used in the movie as a symbol of an innocent dying to the cruelty of men. But yes, a girl like her existed. Her name was Gittel Chill, a young 4 years old girl who was known in the ghetto for her bright red coat. Her parents fled to the countryside at the start of the war, and they couldn't bring their young baby with them, so they left her in the Krakow city with her uncle, who was a doctor in the ghetto. In the end, the little girl died during the extermination of the ghetto, and both her parents also didn't survive the war.
There was a man Nicholas Winton who saved over 600 children like this in the war. Decades later they held a ceremony in an opera house to honor him and asked everyone who he saved or was descended from someone he saved to stand up, and the entire audience of the oprea house stood before him.
Never be ashamed of what you don't know. The fact that you received this information with such humility, empathy, and compassion says more about your heart than whatever facts you may not have known.
I don't know about this comment. Every person that has iota of intelligence, maybe discernment is a better word, should know that Nazi Germany systematically, in their cold cruel logic murdered of millions of people because they were Jews. I knew about it when I was in 3rd grade.
@@jackasswhiskyandpintobeans9344 No one has identical lived experiences. So while you learned about it in school it doesn't mean others had the same access or opportunity. If someone doesn't know something you can't fault them for not knowing. You can only judge the willfully ignorant. This person is not willfully ignorant - he just wasn't exposed to this level of detail on the Jewish Holocaust. Now he knows, now he understands, now he will move forward and continue learning.
Yeah Thank You, We’re All Different People. As Whisky Learned This At The Age Of Three, I Didn’t Learn It Til Middle School And When They Taught Us They Just Breezed Through It. They Didn’t Go Into Much Detail And Didn’t Show Us Movies Like This Or Documentaries. It Was Basically Like Someone Showing Me A Picture Of Concentration Camp And Just Say, “That’s A Concentration Camp.... Ok Now Let’s Move On To The Next Chapter.”
@@HelloMellowXVI If you ever get the chance, there is a DVD documentary I watched years ago, "The Occult History of the Third Reich." Very informative, but made me physically and mentally ill when I first watched it.
I thought it was bad enough when I watched the movie or listen to the music from the movie but I can't even make it through these reactions without a good ugly cry. This movie has a direct line to the pain center of my brain.
Want to make another comment...you are the first person at the end of the film that went into prayer at the 3 minutes of silence Schindler asked for in your reaction video. I’ve been binging these videos all week. Seen probably 30-40 of them. You are the FIRST that went into prayer for the victims as Schindler asked. It was a real moment. Genuine. Not for views or clickbait. It was a moment of true humanity from you. Thank you for that.
During production, many of the actors/extras playing nazis were disappearing into the bathrooms for long periods of time. Spielberg became concerned that maybe there was a food poisoning issue with craft services. It turned out that they were crying, then pulling themselves back together when being called back to the set.
@@GullibleTarget Yes it was my ex-girlfriends father was an extra and many young germans were hired as extras for the movie Spielberg wanted real German speakers. Many of them struggled especially those playing the SS troops and her dad said for those of us who were german the shame was for many unbearable.
Your reaction is heartfelt. As a Jewish person of Holocaust survivors, I could not watch this movie only one time. 36 of my ancestors died in Auschwitz so for me it hits home. Thanks for this reaction though.... now you know.
@@jackasswhiskyandpintobeans9344 It's not just jewish people though. Many people are murdered for being different or believing in something different, even today. It has never really stopped, just changed places.
@@srccde A story. A few years ago at work on downtime. Was reading the wiki entry on the "Nanjing Massacre." Couldn't finish it. Made a comment to my co-worker that the event was mind numbingly horrid. She turned to me and said, "Well, my ancestors suffered X" I was at a loss for words, I remember thinking, "X was horrid but I wasn't talking about X." She rationalized suffering into a hierarchy of suffering. That is a scary prospect, because it means we have learned nothing.
The scene where Schindler cried at the end of the movie shows what good man he was. A good man dosent feel good about saving 1000 lives...he weeps for the 1 he couldn't
I was in 7th grade when Sept 11th happened. My teachers decided to change the curriculum. We read Anne Frank's diary, watched Schindlers list and Roots. They wanted to make sure we understood what hate can cause. And to be empathetic. I will never forget that.
And now 22nyears later, Israel has suffered a 9/11 of ten times per capita, American and other children in western democracies openly despise Jews and demand their extermination once again. What hate can cause lies only in the wake of total ignorance. That Israel came to America's aid and provided so much intelligence in the 'War on Terror' only to be utterly abandoned and despised now in their own time of need just shows how utterly vile human beings can be.
They actually invited survivors that were at this camp on to the set when they saw the lieutenant guy they almost had a heart attack at how well the actor played him.
A woman, i think her name was Ida pfefferberg was on the film Set. She startet shaking when she saw Ralph Fienes who played Amon Goeth in the SS Uniform.....
Fines said that he was in costume and an elderly polish woman spoke to him and said something to the effect of gushing and thanking him that "they" were finally back to "save us".
@@Caprieye789 An actual survivor visited the set, and as soon as she saw the actor she suffered a panic attack because apparently he looked, sounded and acted almost exactly the same as the actual Monster of a man.
One of the most horrifying aspects is that when Schindler Jews were shown the full movie and asked if it was overdramatized, they said that the reality was much worse than what this movie shows. Just shows how deprave humans can be to one another.
Amon Goetz killed as he did because he knew he wouldn't pay any price for his crimes. Imagine if Joe Biden said:" if any person kills an African American that person would not have to go to Jail." The murder of African Americans would skyrocket.
Not a surprise, for two reasons. 1. It would be unreleasable if they did (NC-17 if if was released at all, and unrated direct-to-video was barely a thing in 1993). 2. More importantly, the human mind. "Refuge in Audacity" is a common name for it. Once you go past a certain point, the brain tends to filter itself. He likely would've been accused of "overdoing" it simply because if people didn't know everything about the original actions, it would be nearly impossible to comprehend. I've heard of people who voted "not guilty" in trials simply because they refused to believe that a human was capable of doing what was described to them. This is why the Jews were brought into public view at the end of the war instead of rushed to treatment (Broad brush phrase there, but you get the idea). What happened was so vile that until they saw it personally rational people wouldn't believe it was really happening. That it was so extreme was likely one of the reasons (That and the propaganda and lies by the leaders, of course) that it managed to happen under people's noses. If people weren't generally aware that the holocaust was a point to suspend their usual disbelief, even the movie would seem a bit much. I suppose it makes a point when the movie doesn't *need* to be exactly what happened, and yet still gets a strong message across.
It makes you really think how they could stand doing the things they did. It's because they dehumanized the Jews and instead viewed them as vermin who needed to be exterminated. Truly horrifying stuff.
Sir, your review of Schindler’s list brought me to tears. This may be long, but I am an older Jewish lady and I do not know how to use less words to describe how you made me feel watching this movie and your reaction to it. You see, my family includes two holocaust survivors. They were from different families and actually managed to survive. Their stories are like this one, filled with luck, and randomness in a world gone mad. Their survival was against all odds, and sometimes their lives depended on other people, like Mr. Schindler, risking his own life to protect them, hide them, help them, feed them. Sometimes “just survive one more day” was what kept them alive.. Your reactions of “Why?!? How! What the Fuck?!!!!” are exactly what mine were when learning about the holocaust when I was very young, as you are now. Jewish people call the holocaust the Shoah. In fact, Spielberg actually set up something called the Shoah Foundation where he made it his mission in the 1990’s to record as many actual survivors’ stories on film before those people passed away (as many were getting so old by the 1990’s) so that people like you would be able to hear a true story directly from the actual mouths of those who survived the holocaust themselves. You can actually watch them on TH-cam now! My family history is recorded there as well. I only keep my family name from you as mine is only one story…like the small girl in the pink dress. Her character and the one bit of color in a long black and white film, was to show she was one of over 9 million people killed in the Shoah (6 million of them were Jews). I read that Speilberg made this movie to honor his children and his heritage as a Jew, telling the story of the Jews from an actual Jewish person behind the lens was so important to him. He also has several black children whom he adopted and he made the movie Amistad for them, to honor their black history and pay tribute to the horrors of slavery in America. However, it is you and your loving and heartfelt reactions to these events that moved me to write to you, as you were moved by the story of my people. Your reactions and your tears impacted me so powerfully that I struggle to find the words to tell you how much it meant to me, personally. You see, when we, as Jews, speak of the Shoah, our motto is Never Forget. And Never Again. It is our heartfelt hope that this never happens again in the world, to anyone - whether the group of people is black, or muslim, or women, or part of any group that people would begin to blame for the wrongs of the world. Which is why you speaking on the TH-cam about this is so important, so people will learn from the Shoah, perhaps of the dangers of blame and hate and the ability of humanity to be cruel and ruthless. We must, each of us, protect our world from that. It is said that if we do not learn from history, we are doomed to repeat it. To understand the Shoah (if such a thing is even possible), Jews try to educate people, and most especially young people like you, to watch for signs of how this was done. What frightens me most about the Shoah, is that the Nazis were human beings as well. That this actually happened. And that the people who did this were very smart. You see, managing to kill over 9 million people (6 million of whom were Jews) actually takes a lot of organization. It involves engineers, trains, time tables, and very complex plans. All of which requires smart people = lawyers, legislators, doctors, and people with much knowledge and learning. You see, what the Nazis did was totally legal in Germany, as the laws were changed slowly over time, once Hitler had people who thought like he did he worked tirelessly to get them in positions of power to recreate a world without Jews. It happened over the course of 10 years leading up to the events we see in the film. Taking away people’s rights slowly so they get used to one thing and think, well o.k., it sucks, but I guess it could be worse. Then in 2 months another small thing is put into place, you must wear a jewish star on your clothes. Then another thing is outlawed (right to have a business), then the right to own a home, then you must move to the ghetto, bringing only one suitecase…until we are ready to kill you as quickly as we can, using you as labor to make this plan happen. This plan was known as the Final Solution. What scares me also sometimes in these times is that this was done often through misinformation, much like we see today, where people are not sure exactly what news to believe. And if something sounds quite horrible they think, “this cannot be true!” That can be used to manipulate many minds and thoughts. As can the erasing of history and facts. When the Nazi in history watches the extreme actions and killings of people in the ghetto clearing in the film, he says “You see? We will erase the past six centuries!” it made my heart so cold and frightened. But I became frightened again when you said “I never learned about this in school.” I could see clearly the shock in your face that some of these facts were the first time you’ve encountered this. I worry that the Shoah will be erased in our time, by not teaching children and young people what really happened. I thought for many years that education would help the world, but education without morality and ethics, without compassion, can lead to much evil in this world. So I love that you are educating yourself (Bravo!) as well as other people through TH-cam about such important things. But most importantly - you are also doing it with an equal dose of compassion. Your empathy is epic and will serve you well in this life. I say all this to impress upon you what a special and talented person you are. Your ability to analyze and study film, your deep feelings about performances, your amazing talent to understand cinematography, color, and feel and express so beautifully what your thoughts are - you are truly very, very special. What also moved me is your humility. Apologizing for not being taught these things and not being a person to look things up…you found your way to this story, thank God. The failures of others who did not teach you this is not yours to bear, my dear boy. Just because you don’t know something yet is not your fault. Bless you for finding out things and for the wonderful reactions you have to new information! (I am very old and learn new things each day, how wonderful!) And without studying and reading or having it explained to you, you pick up exactly what I (with many words, perhaps nowhere nearly as effective as this Spielberg movie) could ever manage to teach you about the Shoah. I say this humbly, and in awe of your empathy and kindness toward the story of my people, the Jews, depicted in Shindler’s List. I hope with all my heart that you will find a career working in film and in analysis of film, as I can see how much you love it, and how your incredible talent and the truth of your feelings shines through. Please know that should you ever need a friend, or to talk or ask questions, if I can help you in any way, please contact me directly. I do not know how social media or the TH-cam works, but I will count on you and the cleverness of your generation to find me if you need advice or wisdom, or just a friend to talk to. I hope that at some point you revisit the subject of the Shoah with the movie, The Pianist. With your love of music, I think you will be equally moved by the performances, the music and the filmmaking. However, one of the things I love most about you is your laughter! Mel Brooks is also a Jew, and I watched your reactions tof Blazing Saddles and giggled along with you. I can’t wait to see more of you and your reviews! I would also humbly request that maybe you would enjoy Raising Arizona, as that movie makes me laugh my ass off, and I would hope it would bring you some joy. May you continue to find success making people think, making them laugh, and doing what you do best! May God bless you and keep you, may he shine his countenance upon you and bring you peace. With love and the deepest respect for your work, Heather
Sadly it does keep happening in various countries like Yemen, Many countries in Africa have had genocides in recent memory but no other country gets involved in that as its not bothering them in any way and until it does they won't.
I just read your comment currently watching this reaction video even though it's only 2 years old however I was taken to the movie theater to see this movie when I was about 13 this message I write to you maybe a little long as well and I hope you read it as far as I know nobody in my family is too but I don't know anything about my mother's father because she's the result of a rape so there's a whole side of my family that I don't know about but I was always abnormally intelligent and read a lot and found out about the Holocaust on my own long before we studied about it in school and it broke my heart something inside of me broke and even as a young girl I could understand that it wasn't right I had been in church and Sunday school since before I could walk and talk so I knew that the Jewish people were the chosen people of God so I have always felt a special kindred affection for them I became obsessed with learning everything I could about the Holocaust when I was only in the sixth grade some might have considered it abnormal or macabre but I was just trying to understand how somebody could be filled with so much hate that they could be put in a position of power to actually cause something like this to happen of course I remember watching The sound of music when I was younger but I was too young to understand what was going on and what the movie was actually about so by the time this movie came out in the theaters I was already well aware and well-educated on the history and events of the Holocaust I barely made it through the movie and by the time it was over and I went home I wanted to vomit my stomach hurts so bad I just felt like I had been put through an emotional shredder I have a very deep love and admiration for the Jewish and I would like to tell you that I have a very deep love respect and admiration for your two family members that are survivors of the Holocaust I myself am a survivor of a most horrific event and even though the two were completely unrelated I understand the fear and the terror and the state of mind that your relatives must have suffered through for the rest of their lives I just wanted to take a little bit of time out of my day you let you know that you your race your relatives and anyone who suffered during this time. Will always be held close with love in my heart have a blessed and lovely day Shalom ❤
Sadly, this is happening again. As you stated, it took Hitler years to place people in power, in various sectors. Now, the WEF has accomplished that and is so proud of it that they even said it for all to see and hear. They have infiltrated Govornments, the main stream media, the education system and more. Not just in one country, but on a global scale. The west was their main target and they achieved that. We are literally living through what you rightly stated should never happen again. It's only a matter of time before people are exterminated with biological weapons which will be much worse than covid, specificly designed to kill millions.
I am one of those such Jews that educate the young people about the Shoah. I lost all but my maternal grandmother & great grandmother in the the Shoah. I found out when I was in 6th grade and I just thrust myself into learning about it. I went to Israel to serve in the ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES. I did what I could to honor those that I lost.
There were actual Schindler Jews and death camp survivors on set during filming who served as advisors. When Ralph Fiennes walked on set in costume, he resembled the real Amon Goeth so much that some of the survivors began uncontrollably trembling with fear and panic to the point where they couldn't be around him when he was in character and left the set. Also, the girl in the red coat dies in the movie but actually survived the Holocaust and the war in real life. Interesting note is that Amon Goeth's granddaughter is a black woman who wrote a book titled My Grandfather Would've Shot Me when she found out about her lineage.
As a Jewish person, I respect you so much for reacting to this movie, and for remaining so open and respectful. Not only are you learning by watching this, your viewers who also not might be as familiar with the Holocaust are learning too. The atrocities in this movie are really only the the tip of the iceberg of what really happened. If you’re interested, I highly recommend the documentary “Shoah,” and the films “Life is Beautiful,” “The Devil’s Arithmetic,” and “The Pianist.” Also, Steven Spielberg was inspired to make this because he himself is Jewish. The Jewish people fundamentally have a relationship with the Holocaust, even if they didn’t lose family or have family living in Europe at the time because we understand that we have a duty to remember. It’s talked about every year on our high holy days, and on Holocaust Remembrance Day we farther in the synagogue and read off a portion of the 6 million names of those who died. Thank you again for reacting to this so that those lost will never be forgotten.
I'm italian and Life is Beautiful is a very overrated movie in my opinion. Train of Life (Train de vie) was much better. My best three movies about Shoa: The Pianist (i remember i couldn't speak for hours when i finished it for the first and only time, that's enough for me to bear), Schindler's List and Son of Saul.
@@vladimirmandingo6033 The Pianist is incredibly difficult to watch. Certainly a breathtakingly emotional film and you only have to watch it once for the full effect as you say.
Every person in the world has a duty to remember and learn from the Holocaust.. My grandmother (on my father’s side) was German and was a small child during WWII, she came from one of the families that resisted Hitler and his regime. And my Norwegian grandfather (on my father’s side) was put in a consentration camp because he was a part of the resistance.
“Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
The most extensively recorded act of genocide in human history, still in living memory for many people . . . and there are still those who deny it ever happened.
It really is amazing that some people can look at all the mountains of evidence and dismiss all of it because "BuT tHe DoOrS oF tHe gAs ChAmBeRs ArE mAdE oF wOoD sO iT's NoT rEaL!!!"
Regarding the red coat of the little girl, Spielberg said in an interview that something like this actually happened. They forced all the people to go to one place, but no-one took notice of a little girl in a bright red coat. He also said it was a symbol for the politics at the time. He said that he's convinced the people in power outside of Germany knew what happened at the time and let it happen. Just like the little girl in such an obvious colour could walk down a street full of soldiers rounding up and shooting Jews left and right, without anyone stopping her.
Spielberg's explanation for his use of color was to draw your eye to important characters and events. The candle flames that are extinguished representing the loss to come, the candles lit at the sabbath are hope renewed, etc... And the little girl shows the loss of an innocent going completely unremarked.
Rumor has it that he met a survivor on the scene in character and the lady almost went to cardiac arrest , he payed evil so well, that she thought that the real Aamon Göth is standing front of her.
You have got to be kidding me. He lost to The Fugitive? I'm sorry, but Tommy Lee Jones was playing the same thing he was always playing, there was no... yeah I can't even finish this comment.
@@MsLindaluu it is hard to believe, but is true, they gave the Oscar to Tommy Lee Jones for The Fugitive, but everybody agree that Fiennes was robbed, even DiCaprio deserved more for What's Eating Gilbert Grape than Tommy Lee Jones.
@@romulomontes8884 Tommy Lee Jones was arguably the least deserving nominee that year, not least of all because he was playing the same character he always played.
Ralph Fiennes played this role so well that a woman who survived under Amon Goeth and was visiting the set had a panic attack and had to leave, because he reminded her of Amon Goeth.
When he says, "those six centuries... they will be nothing but a rumor." That is how fragile information and "the truth" is. It makes me think of 1984.. "Those who control the present control the past. And those who control the past control the future." Something to think about today.
WWII German Attrocities, Continous Occupation of Cyprus for more than 45 years and counting, Invasion of Ukraine by, Wars in Afghanistan and Horrific Oppression of Afghanis by their own radical groups , Yemen, proxy wars.... The globe is a shit show of fairness and human rights and people look the other way. Even in Quatar, where thousands of workers constructing the World Cup stadiums live in abject conditions and thousands have dies, FIFA looks the other way and the world does not care. Yet, we hold the power, with what we choose and with what we boycott (to buy, to watch, to listen, to give our money and time to... ) for we are the customers,/powergives of every company, every governement. Instead of the few Evil men being afraind of the many good men, it is the contrary... Shame... It happened and it happens to them, it will happen again, to others as well. Power, Greed and Interests of they few can control the lives of millions..
@Dolf Dogeler You know you bitching about how “it’s so inaccurate” Yet you don’t offer any correction. Which really makes me think you’re trollfagging. Which is pretty sad.
@Dolf Dogeler not sure what you are trying to say? The film is inaccurate? The Holocaust is inaccurate? God forbid if you are a denier! You will stand before God and may HE have mercy. "I (God) will bless them that bless thee (Israel-Jewish ppl and (God will) Curse them that curseth thee (Israel-Jewish ppl)...and in thee (Israel) will all the families of the earth be blessed (the Messiah)..." Genesis 12:3
@Dolf Dogeler you antisemite. Holocaust happened because of ppl like you. I'm a Jew so don't tell me that i don't know what my ppl went thru. Again, You will stand before YHVH. (Nothing else to say to your hate)
When I saw this film in the theatre, it ended and the only sound in the theatre were the sounds of the movie goers crying. What seemed like an hour passed. Nobody moved. Nobody got up to leave the theatre. I finally made my way to the ladies room before leaving and strangers were hugging each other sobbing. A woman in her 50’s approached me crying and said “They told us this never happened. It was just rumors. They lied. How can this be?” We stood there crying with each other. Perfect strangers. United in our pain, our disgust, and our ignorance. The story that we were taught in the schools in the 1980’s was a very clean version of reality. It is my belief that every teenager in America should watch this film as a requirement. I was changed permanently after seeing this film.
This movie as well as the actual film footage of the camps should be required viewing. With a report due afterwards Until the history is taught, instead of being "sanitized" or erased, humans are doomed to repeat these horrors!
This is a movie. The balcony like shown in the movie was to the other side of the house, away from the camp. The SS-Kommandant Amon Göth had been arested in 1944 by Gestapo and brought to SS-court. Amon Göth was accused to steal from prisoners, torchured prisoners and killed prisoners. Amon Göth escaped in the chaos of the end of ww2. Please notice, that the SS accused ca. 800 SS-members due to stealing from prisoners, torchering prisoners and killing prisoners inside the concentration-camps. 2x SS-Comandants had been sentenced to death including execution. Please also notice, that the jewish-world-comitte declared "war on germany" on 24th march 1933 (without any reason). The jewish-world-comitte and his members repeatedly declared war on germany before ww2 started. Following the international-red cross germany was allowed to put the jews into jail due to the several jewish-war-declarations....like US and GB did with germans and japanese inside their countries. Dont get me wrong. For the people involved (torchered, murdered) it was a tragedy, but like always in history....even if a few are guilty the majority feels the trajedy. The official story, that Hitler was the "evil" who caused all this is WRONG. Like today, there are interests in the world who wanted a war with germany for good reason (in my opinion it has been the new money-and-trade-system from Hitler, which ignored the international finance industry in Wallstreet and City-of-London).
I remember being in 10th grade in high school when this movie came out and our history teacher took us to see this as a kind of field trip. We were goofy teenagers going in like “we get to skip school, to go to the movies? Great.” When it was over, I don’t think anyone talked for the entire bus ride back to school.
Yeah in grade 10 history class we watched this movie, pretty insane but made everyone learn the gravity of the history which is hard to do through just text
would "have" been. Would've is a contraction of "would have," not "woud of." Ditto could've, should've. Kinda like asking someone if they "have" done their homework, you don't ever say "Of you done your homework?"
Schindler’s list is based off a true story. And he is one of the only outsiders to be allowed to be buried in the sacred grounds he was buried in at the end
@UCPWm0k5DryRZQ8ymgYKh78w fuck off you uneducated piece of filth. This man was a treasure to the world and a savior of over 1000 people that were sentenced to death. Although I suppose you also thing that the Holocaust and 9-11 were also fabricated by the government and media, you should leave and shut your mouth
History repeats itself unless we learn from the past. And you can’t learn from what you don’t know. Maya Angelou said when you know better you do better. When we say “Never Again” this is what we mean. When we thank the “Greatest Generation” now you know who they were facing and why we can never again be silent when we see any injustice.
I am from germany i a can say for sure that in Reality it was even worse. They killed 2 years old kid by throwing them against a wall or put them under a train
I was 14 when I saw this movie at the cinema and I will never forget he experience. Usually when you are leaving a cinema, people are talking, laughing, discussing their favourite moments, etc. Not after Schindler's list. The cinema was packed and yet, we all walked out in total silence at the end.
Well, that is a good sign, that despite ignoring many unjust things in life a lot people have still a reachable humanity and sense of what really is right or not. People should bring it up a little from their inner depths to let it out occasionally more often.
When this film was released we were among many lined up early for tickets we saw the people who had watched the film before us come out with tears still streaming out of their eyes so naturally you wonder what was going on. Watching the film by the time the film finished there was not not a dry eye in the place no matter if you were male of female. Then it was our turn with tears still streaming out of our eyes to walk past those lined up for the next showing who were wondering what was going on.
I remember this from the theater as well, and was actually exactly the same age you were. My mother felt like this was an important enough topic to take me to see it even though I was underage for it, and I've never experienced an atmosphere like it before or since. In the end, I didn't feel ready to get up and walk out for a long time, and a bunch of others didn't seem to either, as many just sat there for long minutes into the credits, pulling themselves together enough to leave.
Some interesting things about Amon Göeth's descendants: 1) Monika Hertwig, the child of his lover never really knew the true extent of her father's wickedness UNTIL she sat in a movie theater and actually saw this movie! Can you imagine finding out that way? She was in a documentary (a few others have mentioned it in the comments) with a survior of her father's brutality. Poor woman ranted at Göeth's daughter, even though the daughter had nothing to do with her father's actions. 2) His grandaughter is a black woman - the daughter of a Nigerian man that Hertwig dated for a while. She found out who her grandfather was by picking up a book quite by accident in a library. It was so traumatising that she had to call her husband to pick her up, as it brought on an instant panic attack and she suffered months long depression afterwards. She wrote a book titled: My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me.
That information about Monika Hertwig seems to be not true. She first heard about who her father was from her grandmother. From there on she repeatedly got information bits about her father, until she got the whole story apparently, when her mother gave an interview about Monika Hertwig's father while she sat in the room next-door. When she watched Schindler's List, she had a mental breakdown. But she knew about her father before watching the movie.
That last scene made my cry like a baby. When he realizes looking at his possessions and equated them to the more people he could have saved if he had sold them.
Same with the 9th episode of the mini series Band of Brothers. Nearing end of ww2 in Europe as Germany was losing the war, multiple concentration camps were discovered by US and allied forces. Some of the local citizens in a town claimed to have no idea there was a concentration camp nearby.
Steven Spielberg had family that died in the Holocaust. He felt compelled to tell about it through his art, which is film. My grandparents went through this hell, but worse because they ended up in the camps after the ghetto. It was a terrible time, and we must never forget it, lest we repeat it.
My gf had a great gran who was Dutch and she told me she grew up during the Holocaust, she used to make the Nazi soldiers at the camps cookies to distract them while others helped those imprisoned escape. Wish I could have met her
I am from germany i a can say for sure that in Reality it was even worse. They killed 2 years old kid by throwing them against a wall or put them under a train
I had ancestors, too, who ended up going from Italy, as Italian Jews, to Auschwitz. They were not supposed to but when the Germans were being chased out of N. Italy, were my relatives were interred in work camps near Trieste, they were sent to Auschwitz. I know we say we must remember and we do remember but it keeps happening. Not on this scale, 10 million dead that we know of (not just Jews but homosexuals, etc), but in Bosnia, we watched it happen! We knew and did little. It is happening today in Nigeria. It is happening in China. It has been happening since WWII and before. We can remember all we want but it will never stop because humans are, when push comes to shove, evil. We are the only animal that kills for sport. Rapes. Goes to war. No other species does. Anyway, I wish you peace. Shalom.
I'm German and I was a 11 or 12 when I first watched this movie. I think first my Dad watched it with me on TV. Later I saw it once or twice in school too. It's such an important movie, even though despite being absolutely bone chilling it still barely scratches the full depths of atrocities committed in that time. The more you learn and read about that time, especially of eye witness accounts of survivors, the worse and worse it gets. I remember having nightmares when in 12th grade I had to read and study a book about the atrocities committed by 'doctors' who did 'experiments' on concentration camp inmates, with not anesthesia and an ever inevitable outcome. The memory culture in Germany is strong about the holocaust. WWII and the atrocities committed by Germany are basically a topic every single year latest from 6th grade in various angles and intensities (as to be age appropriate). Most school children eventually visit a concentration camp. We still had the chance to talk to a survivor on our visit. Sadly younger generations don't get that chance anymore. True, some young people are annoyed with the amount of holocaust related material they are presented with throughout their childhood, but I do think most eventually come around and understand the severity of this part of our history. To grow up in Germany and deny the holocaust or refuse the responsibility for its remembrance you have to be in willful denial and ideologically completely lost. As for the topic of national guilt, or the guilt people feel today about WWII and the holocaust. I do not think that any German born after WWII feels 'guilt' about it. It's a very off choice of word. We were not there. We had no say in it. HOWEVER, we do feel strong responsibility to try and understand how the nation could drift into a mass insanity like that, how millions of people could be dehumanized and deprived of their right to live like that, what are the early signs to look out for, what way does a nation's constitution have to be built to prevent these kind of things from happening, and to achieve all these things we need to never ever forget it and take responsibility as a people. One example for the way the German constitution changed to prevent such atrocities or at least to make murderers in war accountable for their actions is, how German soldiers are by constitution not absolved anymore from the responsibility for their actions by claiming they were just carrying out orders. If a German soldier follows any order that goes against basic human rights and international conventions of war, he or she is a war criminal, period. The reason for this is that after the war thousands and thousands of murderers of the holocaust had that one excuse 'I was just following orders.' Now if orders go against our constitution or violate basic human rights, they are not to be followed, or else you're complicit in a crime. That's just one small example of how the constitution changed to prevent such atrocities from happening again. Sadly even today their are still racists and anti-Semitic people in Germany, just like many places in the world. There will always be people who carry nothing but evil in their heart. All we can do is to do all we can to make sure they never gain majority or real influence ever again. The holocaust can never be made up for. The sheer scope of the atrocities... there is no real redemption to be had. But we do owe it to all the victims - Jews, Sinti and Roma, political opponents, homosexuals and physically as well as mentally disabled people - who were murdered, ripped off their loved ones and all they possessed, we owe it to them to still keep trying to remember and prevent it from happening again.
Unlike in America where they let the losers of war write their own history. That is why there are people today in America that question if slavery was really that bad.
I had a girlfriend from Germany (we're still great friends to this day) who watched this movie once. Asked her about what her people think about this and she said that "We don't ever talk about it because most are so deeply ashamed of it being a part of our own history."
The guy that played the German commander is the same guy that played Voldamort. He apparently played the roll so well that some of the extras on the set, who were actual survivors of this story in real life, had panic attacks because they remember the guy and he portrayed him so accurately.
@@Sodapop-rd5kupeople should forget voldemort, Amon Goeth was the most evil villain he ever played. And the worst part is, that the real Goeth seemed to be even more gruesome.
When oscar talks about sending those officers to southern Russia.... he was talking about having them transferred to the Russian front to fight the red army, which was not a particularly ideal assignment to be given and officers and soldiers would do anything to avoid being transferred there because of how brutal the fighting and conditions were.
Especially since getting captured by the Americans was far better then being captured by the Russians. Some reports from German POWs during ww2 when asked how the Americans treated them they go, “I mean they gave us food, let us sleep, I guess pretty good” not saying that we didn’t commit war crimes too just saying 😂
@@chasescanlon6488 which is why in the final years of the war german troops tried to get as far west as they could so they could try an surrender to American and British forces..... don't worry after the war the allies changed the definition of war crimes so they couldn't be held accountable for the atom bomb attacks on Japan or any of the other things they did that would normally be classed as war crimes.
My school in Sweden. We went to Schindler’s factory, Auschwitz, museums and learnt the WW2 history in Warsawa for a week. So we could see history for ourselfs. They did that every year for every student for free. I think that is the best way of learning. To actually see history
How wonderful that your school educates all of its students, regardless of finances, about such an important part of history. It's harder being in Australia but I still visited an Extermination Camp in Austria whilst I visited Europe many years ago. It's something that everyone should learn about so that it can never occur again.🇦🇺
Going to the Warsaw museum, Krakow, and Auschwitz/ Birkenau was the best and saddest trip i have ever taken. I had never even heard of the Polish resistance fighters of Warsaw before i went there. I also never knew that Russia stayed on the outskirts of Warsaw while Germans were flattening the city and killing off the resistance fighters all because they wanted to colonize Warsaw after the Germans were done.
My mother's best friend was born in a camp. The only reason she survived was because before capture, her mother was a doctor and was useful to them. She was almost 2 when the camps were liberated. She's still alive in Paris. Her mother died at 103 years old. My mother's friend told me that the only thing she remembers (again, she was barely 2) from the entire ordeal was an American soldier giving her chocolate.
A fact about Ralph Fiennes in this movie. One of the women who was a girl during these events that was a Schindler Jew visited the set of the movie during filming. When she saw him in character and in costume as Amon Goeth she fell to the ground in shock and fear because he looked and acted EXACTLY like she remembered him from the concentration camps.
21:05 When this movie was being made, a Holocaust survivor visited the set... And she lost it when she saw the actor for Amon, like that monster was back from the dead... Her reaction confirmed for everyone that this movie did not exaggerate anything. Amon was very well portrayed in the movie, which terrifies me.
@@stevevorgias6734 Not in this instance, but his daughter did say she could basically tell which actor was her dad from the jump, which is just further confirmation.
trivia: he was expelled from the third reich because even they couldn't tolerate his actions. how bad do you have to be that even the Nazis don't want anything to do with you?
I watched a documentary about the making of this movie. And it said that the real Amon Göth was even more evil and cruel than in the movie. Spielberg was afraid that people might not believe it if he made this character more true to the historic person ..so for the sake of the movie he played it down a bit.
It's kind of like the of hacksaw ridge. They actually took out parts of Desmond Doss' story because the filmmakers thought no one would believe it if they left those parts in.
I can get through every scene without crying until i get to the “I could have got more” scene. Survivors guilt is a terrible terrible suffer to bear the rest of your life
The real Oskar Schindler dealt with it for the rest of his life. The bribes he paid during the war to save all of the Schindler Jews' lives bankrupted him. He lived in poverty for the rest of his life.
Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goeth was one of the greatest villainous performances of all time, he ranks up there with Heath Ledger's Joker, Javier Bardem's Anton Chigurh, and Anthony Hopkins' Hannibal Lecter.
Yep. While filming the movie, they had one of the real Schindler survivors on set, and she was getting anxiety watching him perform and had to leave because it reminded her of the real person.
Yes, the Schindler Jews are real. There's a documentary where Amon Goeth's daughter meets the Jewish woman whom he kept as his house mistress during their time at his camp. It's worth a watch. Very interesting. Don't apologize. You're learning about something. You're obviously very serious and thoughtful about it and that comes across.
do you know the name of the documentary? i would love to watch it, ive been following the holocaust for a long time now since i didnt pay attention in high school and it really is something i want to learn everything i can about... its so scary how people can be capable of such a inhumane existence and the scary thing to me is if it has happened once, it can happen again.
@@brittnyjones9146 It's called Inheritance. Here's a link to the wiki article about it, for some background: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inheritance_(2006_film)
I lost family at Auschwitz and this movie crushes me every time. I’m so glad you took the time to watch this because our memories will help ensure this never happens again. Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it. Respect
Sadly, I lost my great-grandpa there as well. One day, the guards were shooting into the gathered crowd on the main square without provocation. Recoil from his rifle made my dear great-grandpa lose his balance and he tumbled over the railing of his watchtower. 😞
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you for watching this and reacting to it. I am 64 and my father was in the Army in WWII. His unit liberated one of the smaller concentration camps and he was never the same. People tell me how he was before the war but that was not the man I grew up with. If we don't take care history repeats itself...this could happen again.
@@gerosuarez2 the point was that history repeats itself and I can compare the Holocaust because look how many black people slavery mercilessly slaughtered??! So yeah f&-+ off
@@gerosuarez2 black lives matter is a Marxist organization bc it wants to bring attention to horrific treatment of black people .... See it's this same BS talking points that caused the Holocaust and every other atrocity ... You cannot support black people and not support BLM ... There are crappy people in every organization that doesn't mean the the message is wrong... Which goes to show disingenuous people like you who want to muddy the water and conflate 2 different issues .
The part at the end where he expresses remorse over the Jews he didn’t save is the most tragic scene in the history of cinema. It’s a scene thats significance simply cannot be captured in words. I’m not ashamed to admit that I’ve teared up every time I’ve watched the scene, it’s just that heartbreaking.
My history teacher in 10th grade showed my class this movie. Every. Single. Person. In that class cried from this movie. Nobody knew the story and we were all shocked. It’s probably the most powerful movie I’ve ever seen.
So did mine, this was in Finalnd many years ago. I remember some of my classmates making jokes during some of the scenes while I was just trying to stop myself from falling apart.. Maybe they were just foolish and thought it was "just another movie", maybe it was a defense mechanism, to make light of it. Either way, my view on my classmates changed that day.
Yes, yes, massive credit to the actors. But, my God, can we take a second to appreciate the absolutely perfect musical score John Williams and his crew composed to go along with the visuals? The main theme of Schindler's List is the most beautiful peace of music mankind has ever written.
“Why is he trying to make faulty shells?” By the end Schindler doesn’t want to do anything that can aid the German war effort. There is some debate about the historical accuracy of this scene, but it falls basically in line with Schindler’s feelings turning against the German war effort.
I have my doubts about this scene being true. Towards the end of the war, the Germans were running out of basically everything and definitely would notice if a factory wasn't producing anything
@@daustin8888 No no it's truth my great uncle told me he worked for one of his company's in 1939 to 1949. Mr. Oscar Schindler was good man and never wanted death.
@@daustin8888 it's true, but dramatized for cinema. The real story was that due to having so many "unskilled" laborers, the ammunition wasn't up to Wehrmacht standards. It does go into being historically true though because, after Schindler realizes that the ammunition was failing tests, he decided to help sabotage the Nazi war effort by encouraging ammunition to be assembled with loose tolerances (rendering them useless)
@@daustin8888 The Germans did not care, if there were shells being sent out to the front lines, they would be overrun within a couple weeks, if people did notice then they could blame the destroyed logistical lines or other nonsense, or Oskar would've paid off anyone saying otherwise. The Germans had many other factories that were making actual shells, Oskars factory was just a drop in the bucket, its a horrendous thought.
I visited Krakow three years ago. The Schindler factory is still there and has photos of the people he saved. The guided tour of Auschwitz has to have been the most harrowing, but important, experiences I've had. Man's inhumanity to man knows no bounds. We must never forget lest we end up with the same again. Such an honest reaction. Thank you.
18:40 The little girl in red was because the real Schindler's changing moment was watching a little girl in red wondering the streets during the whole ordeal while no one else cared.
It signified that as blatantly obvious (red coat) the atrocities were, the world turned a blind eye (little girl wandering around and no one doing anything).
Spielberg commented on this. The girl was the turning point and that all this violence was happening around her and she just walked calmly to her hiding spot. Later in the movie, Schindler sees her dead body in a pile and that must have really made it harder on him.
That little girl in red symbolises the America's ignorance upon the chaos happening with Jews. They did nothing about it even though they could have stopped it at right time 😥 And at the end they show the girl dead which says the Hope from America is Gone!!
@@sankethhs6559 How could they stop it? They could have bombed the gas chambers, but then the SS would have gone back to shooting the Jews. To do anything would have revealed that Great Britain had broken the Enigma and Lorenz codes, and if the Germans had changed them, it might have extended the war by 2 years, by which time the Nazis would have exterminated millions more.
Schindler's list is one of the most heartbreaking movies out there. It takes you on a journey and shows you how the evils of humanity can be overcomed by a simple act of kindness
The fact that you were so shocked watching the various scenes of atrocities in the movie (randomly shooting people for fun) is a reminder to me of how horrendous it all was. When I watched this movie for the first time, I wasn't as shocked as you were, because I knew more background knowledge about what happened in the holocaust and in the war. Seeing your reaction reminds me of how shocked I should be, and how shocked everybody should be, at the events which happened.
I’ve always been frightened of the expression “those who are ignorant of the past are doomed to repeat it”. I’m glad you saw this movie. Doesn’t matter if you’re 25 or 95! I’m glad you were able to cry.
My father had two sons, the younger and his mother were killed in Auschwitz, the older was 16 years old and my father told me that he survived working in a factory but died right after the liberation by sickness. It was a shock when I saw the movie and find my brother's name in the list. My name Arabella is composed by the name of his sons Artur and Bella may they rest in peace 🌹
I had heard they were not teaching this in history class anymore, and had hoped that it wasn't true. My grandma's little brother died in WWII, guess no one's supposed to care
I seriously just rewatched this today. This film was voted #8 in the greatest American films. It was voted "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress in 2004 and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
And it is important to preserve this movie. This and other pieces of media that help us remember the times where humanity stood as low as possible. Especially with all those Holocaust deniers appearing everywhere nowadays.
@@RTuga02 Back when I was a teenager, PBS had a show that included film shot at the concentration camps when they were liberated. I watched it, because I knew I had to learn and never forget.
Sadly not many knew this story until Thomas Keneally wrote about in his book Schindler's Ark The film rights was taken by Spielberg who did a masterly job of bringing it to the screen. Since the film came out it has become one of if not the most famous film ever. Today there are supposedly between 10,000 and 12,000 Schindlerjuden alive around the world so Oscar Schindler saved many, many more lives than those who worked for him.
"I knew the people who worked for me. When you know people, you have to behave toward them like human beings." - Oskar Schindler This is not a quote from the movie. It is a quote from the man himself.
"What inspired Stephen Spielberg to make this movie". Stephen is Jewish. His family were victims of the holocaust and he felt compelled to tell this story. The story of Schindler's list is real.
In addition to not taking a salary for this film, Spielberg also started the USC Shoah Foundation, which recorded as many testimonies from Holocaust survivors as possible so that they would not be forgotten.
I taught my kids history because they don’t teach it in school anymore. They did reports on the Holocaust n the teachers should have been embarrassed because they asked my kids so many questions ( they knew so little) Their reports were done with presentations in old suitcases . Parents have to take part in their kids education because our public schools are awful !!!!
@@loridiaz9601 Yea, since my sister is homeschooling and is crap at history, I'm gonna have to teach my nieces and nephews this stuff. They are gonna be shookith!
I Knew About The Holocaust.... I Only Knew Like 10%, I Forgot Exactly When I Said They Didn't Teach Me This But I Am Sure I Was Talking About Oskar Schindler...
@@HelloMellowXVI I think you were referring to him as well. I know I didn't learn about him in school. There is a part of me that thinks it makes sense you wouldn't learn the gritty details in school because it so horrific. It's hard for me, an adult, to process. But we gotta know what it looks like so we can spot the signs of it coming around again. Some might say that the structure of our learning has such gaps by design. It is a cynical position, but the older I get, the more I learn on my own, the more patterns I see. The most I can do is impart this knowledge to my son, and encourage others to do the same.
You are very kind and considerate to apologise to anyone you may offend. But not knowing isn't a crime. You are doing exactly the right thing educating yourself about these difficult topics. It was brave of you to post openly your reactions where you are upset, as it invites assholes to criticise, but these are the moments I love that you shared. It shows you have compassion and empathy. I rate you highly my dude, keep doing your thing. I'm subscribed.
There was a camp survivor on set who saw the actor playing Aemon Goth, and she had a panic attach because he portrayed him so well. The actor sat down and talked her through it by reminding her that he was gone, and would never hurt anyone else evre again.
It’s said that those stones placed in the movie are still here to this day. Steven didn’t make you watch the movie, he made you feel it. Thanks for the great reaction!
The actor playing Amon Goth was so good that when some of the victims who were working on advisory roles for the film were shaken. He got the body language, speech, and everything so close.
Ralph Fiennes, arguably one of my favorite actors, because of this movie. He embodied evil like no one ever has. Insane. When Goth fixes his hair and hails the big "H" just before his hanging, blows my mind... Had I known he was Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter series, I would have watched everyone!
@@nolifealan9746 yes that is because if he did play everything to part, the film wouldn’t have been able to release. Amon Göth was an evil, evil man. No one could have been able to bear watching it. It wouldn’t have been allowed.
My history teacher let us watch this in history when i was 15/16 during that module....i remember it was the first time i heard a whole classroom quiet for 3 lessons! 😢 i knew about it because my Dad is a history enthusiast, especially wars, he said to me the most important thing in my life is to read! Read anything and everything you can about anything! ❤ thats how you come to know and appreciate and learn xx
Me, crying, while watching another man crying over this absolute heartbreak of a movie. You don't know me/I don't know you, but I hope all is well with you and your family.
I'm German and my grandfather survived a concentration camp, so I grew up with the history. There's no need to apologize for not knowing more about it. Your video was so open minded and respectful, and like you said: you're still young. You took time to educate yourself after seeing the movie. I'm a white German chick, there are tons of things I don't know about Black American history. The best we can do is stay open minded and be ready to listen and learn.
I think researching is the way to do (that's why internet is such a fantastic tool), but testimonies of survivors aside, I wouldn't advise anyone to "listen" people to learn about any historical event because there's always the risk of strong bias. Trusting people too much especially if it's about something they have strong opinions on, is recipe for disaster. I'm not talking about you in particular but I noticed that for a lot of people being openminded is often mistaken for being gullible. Trust academic research and sources, even if it's just a summary of it.
@@xenotypos your attitude is correct when we're talking about something like ""race scientists"" who use ""science"" to determine people inferior or climate change deniers, not well-documented genocide.
@@bee4590 You're beside the point. Read again, why do you assume the "well-documented" part is what I was refering to if I specifically said "Trust academic research and sources" ?
To answer your question about Schindler threatening to send the German soldiers to southern Russia. Hitler fought on two fronts. While he fought western Europe, he also invaded Russia. (You can't fight a two-front war.) A Russian winter in summer clothes was a bad deal, and most German soldiers who were trapped deep in Russia froze to death. By the millions. They had no supplies, gasoline, food, or clothes. Don't beat yourself up. There are some amazing resources out there on WW2 that aren't laborious reads.
I thought that this threat is about fighting on the frontline. Remember, while Poland was captured and the Nazis there only had to do easy tasks, there was a full-scale war in USSR, and by the way, the southern part of German army in Russia was the one that was attacking Stalingrad. So yeah, it would not be the most pleasant experience for people who are mostly responsible for paperwork
you are not quite right. Schindler threatened the German soldiers to send them to the south of Russia, because at that time the battle for Stalingrad was taking place - one of the bloodiest battles in human history, which is why Shinder said "southern Russia" and not just "Russia", because Stalingrad is in the south .. In some parts of the Wehrmacht, the life expectancy of soldiers was on average 24 hours, during these 24 hours someone or something will kill you.
It's kinda scary to think how much more successful Hitler could've actually been in winning had he put all of the effort into fighting the allied front instead of also being in Russia. Especially considering they were on good terms at the beginning of the war before his surprise attack on them.
@@erin-shhmerin3704 In Mein Kampf Hitler made it perfectly clear he would invade Russia if he ever came into power. The book was published in 1922, but few people read it, even after Hitler did rise to power. Hardly any Germans even bothered reading Mein Kampf, because it was such a dull, boring screed. If people had read the book they wouldn't have let Hitler take control of the country. Invading Russia was a no-win proposition, and everyone knew it.
My elementary school in Sweden organized for the 8th graders to watch this film in the cinema every year on international holocaust remembrance day. A holocaust survivor also came to speak and he sat with us in our classroom. His name was Benny Grünfeld. I will never forget that experience, and I will teach my children everything I know. What happened should never be forgotten.
A truly devastating film, the effect never fades. Your reaction was so genuine and full of empathy, the best I have seen. Well done bud, I think it maybe changed you the way it changed me.
Back in 1955 my dad was in Germany as part of his national service,he was 18. This was only 10yrs afer the wars end! One of the places the army took them as an army education exercise was Bergen Belsen. This was only one of the many concentration camps, they went in the camp as chatty 18yr old lads ,they came out as quiet men!! The bit that he remembers the most to this day ,he's now 85,is one building that was left as it was found at the liberation. Three rooms were sealed with glass so you could see the 40,000 pairs of spectacles, shoes and false teeth!!! Total respect to your viewing of this film! I'm 55 and it gets me every time I've seen it!
I went through an exhibit on the Holocaust at the Imperial War Museum in London. They ask for no one to take pictures and for you to be silent and respectful. I went from happy and enjoying my day to very very somber.
"They say those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it." It is our duty as human beings is to make sure this doesn't happen to any group ever again
@@7svn.I'm not saying those events didn't happen and they need to be address however in china right now they have actual concentration camps holding muslim minorities.
What's sick is during the Holocaust remembrance week at my university, my prof was telling the class the Holocaust never happened, and instead had us focus on the Rwandan genocide. The people who try to deny the Holocaust ever happened are the people who want history to repeat itself, only with a different outcome.
This was a privilege to watch, thank you for reacting as raw as you did. History can be brutal. You learned about one of the darkest and most important events in human history.
Interesting thing about the incredible music, John Williams actually went to Spielberg and said "Steve I can't do the score for this movie, I'm not good enough." Spielberg replied "I know, but you're the best alive, so you'll do it"
Slight correction that changes the meaning of the quote: Williams said that he wasn't good enough to write the score, there were better composers to choose. Spielberg responded, "I know, but they're all dead." I believe in addition to the gracious (and deserved) compliment to Williams, Spielberg was implying that the only other people who could have done justice to the score were Jewish musicians, specifically the ones who had suffered through this--except they never made it out of Poland/Germany/Austria. (As it happens, Leonard Bernstein died in 1990, which is likely when the film was in production. He probably wouldn't have been considered since Spielberg and Williams are so simpatico, but IMHO if for whatever reason Williams couldn't have done the score, Bernstein would've been a fantastic choice. I do wonder what kind of score he'd've written. Gorgeous, no doubt. But Williams's music here is without equal in evoking painful grief of those lost, and bittersweet celebration of those whom Schindler helped to survive.)
The actor who played the camp commander Amon Göth not only did a great job, he also looked like the real Amon Göth. He looked so much like the real Amon Göth that his mere sight gave real life survivors of the events a full blown mental breakdown.
They don't teach it in school anymore because they are trying to hide history. Sound familiar? It was mandatory for us to watch this movie in 12th grade, but they stopped it because parents complained.
It's disturbing to me how little my grandkids and their friends know about history or geography. I'm paraphrasing but the saying goes ppl who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
I think they do teach it but people are so focused on other things right now and often how well you retain information is just by how that history is taught
The fact that Cancel Culture is trying to hide the harsh history is already disturbing as hell. As a History Major, it outright infuriates and disgusts me that people out there think this shouldn’t be taught.
I remember watching this in high school. I'm grateful for my English teacher for exposing us to this part of history which was not even 100 years ago. Your genuine response/reaction is exactly how we should be--indignant of the atrocities of the Holocaust, especially so we will not be doomed to repeat it due to our lack of ignorance. I appreciate you for displaying honest emotions and vulnerability.
Ive watched the scene where the Schindler Jews place the stones on his grave a hundred times, and I’ve openly weeped every time. It’s the most powerful cinematic scene I’ve ever witnessed.
When I was a young nurse, around early nineties, one of my favorite patients was an elderly lady named Rose…I’m leaving her last name anonymous. She told me the most awful story. She was a twin and she and her sister had experiments done on them by the evil Dr. Mengele. Her sister didn’t survive and she was so sick from what he did that they placed her in hospital to get better so he could continue his experiment. While in hospital they heard the Americans would soon be there to liberate the camp. Orders were to kill everyone in the hospital. She said a kindly German nurse took pity on her and had her hide in the supply closet behind stacks of sheets and that is how she survived. I remember she said not all the German people were evil. She felt that many were terrified and trapped in the horror also. I never forgot her and never forgot her trauma or that she still had faith in the goodness of people.
All these truly incredible stories of survivors.. Because everybody who didn't have some incredible thing happen did not survive. It's gutwrenching to say the least.
A bit of trivia for you. While Spielberg was in the casting phase of this movie, he and his wife and mother went to see a play that Liam was in, his mother leaned over and whispered in his ear “there’s your Schindler”.
@@oliverhughes610 uhm yea exactly gotta keep mind in the movie they merely skim the surface of the camps and other atrocities if they went by the book and what actually happened the movie wouldn't exist or you referring to things that characters did? cant really say or not say what they did unless you were there
@@eibbor171 One absolutely can say what characters did or did not do, because there is a tremendous amount of evidence and records to point to it. We know exactly which characters are real and which ones are fictitious, who was where at what point, and who did what at what point. I made a larger comment on its own but I will copy/paste it here for your benefit: True story is a stretch. It's important to note that this film is based on a book, which is itself a work of fiction based on true events. There are a number of important things the book/film invent for drama and storytelling purposes, or skip over to present characters in a certain way. Schindler did not compile the list himself (hence the book being called Schindler's Ark). That task fell to a clerk named Marcel Goldberg. He compiled several lists over several months, with no real numerical boundary set by Buscher, and engaged in corruption as to who went on them. Schindler himself openly admitted that he had nothing to do with it. The 'girl in the red dress' scene is fiction. Schindler and his wife knew of the upcoming liquidation of the ghetto and were nowhere near the hill to watch it take place. Stern, Ben Kingsley's character, did not exist. His character is a composite of several real people. The idea that Schindler collapsed into his arms crying about not having done more is laughable - he was proud of what he had accomplished and said as much in a speech earlier that day. Schindler was a liar, a drunk, a cheat, an agent of the German Abwehr (military intelligence) - and a hero. The flaws in his character that the film totally neglects in fact serve to make his increasing determination to help people more remarkable. But the manner in which he helped people and the way in which his attitude is depicted in this film is heavily, heavily dramatised. As for Amon Göth? On 13 September 1944, Göth was relieved of his position and charged by the SS with theft of Jewish property (which belonged to the state, according to Nazi regulations), failure to provide adequate food to the prisoners under his charge, violation of concentration camp regulations regarding the treatment and punishment of prisoners, and allowing unauthorised access to camp personnel records by prisoners and non-commissioned officers. He was awaiting trial in Austria but the rapidly approaching defeat meant that the charges were dropped and he was condemned to a mental institution. He would be arrested there by the US military at the end of the war in Europe, and re-imprisoned at Dachau, until he was properly identified. He was tried in Poland in 1946 and executed by hanging. Had the SS tried him, he would very likely have been shot.
@Positive Vibes It is not bs. You want to be loved like every human being does. And it is exactly this that connects people. You can argue all day against it. Be bitter and hateful or call what i write bullshit or how i and others are delusional for that statement. But like a torpedo that is already in the water and will hit 100% my words will reach you one day. Not today, not tomorrow but one day for sure. You like everyone else want to be loved by someone and when that day happens my words will come true and reach you. Now write your cringy answer about how fucked up the world is. I still have already won as love always finds a way :)
The beginning scene where Schindler is making friends with Nazi officers is where he gets his power from he's really just a German civilian but with friends in high places he might as well be an officer Edit: Spielberg decided to make the film because of the amount of anti-semitism and holocaust denial that was flaring up. It's based on a book called Schindler's Ark that was based on true events
SCHINDLER'S LIST MOVIE REVIEW: th-cam.com/video/JZzS2J-MlFE/w-d-xo.html
This Movie Really Left Me Speechless.... Please Share And Like. Tell Me Your Thoughts On This History! I Apologize For The Intro, I Didn't Think It Was That Loud.
Ok I Hate That I Have To Do This Sometimes But This Is Really Starting To Piss Me Off, I Have So Many People Insulting Me And My Intelligence Either It Being In A Polite Way Or In A Completely Disrespectful Way.
Listen I Knew About The Holocaust Before I Watched This Movie, I Only Knew About 10% - 15% Of The Holocaust. Some People Really Making It Seem Like I Didn't Know Anything About The Holocaust Just Because Of The Way I Reacted To People Dying..... Like Are You Serious? How The Hell Else Am I Supposed To React? 😐 (When I Said I Was Never Taught This In School, I WAS TALKING ABOUT OSKAR SCHINDLER! I Wasn't Talking About The Holocaust.... It's Crazy How Now A Days You Have To Over Explain Everything..)
This Was A "Movie Reaction" Not Some Damn School Book Report. Some People Also Think I Didn't Know The Holocaust Because Of Certain Things I Said... Bro Alot Of Things I Said In This Video Was Me Having My Mind Disshuffled, So Somethings Came Out Wrong. Like Yall Need To Chill The Hell Out And Stop Assuming Things And Trying To Interpret What I Say. After I Watched This Movie, I Took A Week A Actually Studied A lot On The Holocaust. Now I Would Say I Know Like 40% Of The Holocaust....
This movie came out when I was sixteen. It took me two or three times to get through it fully. A phenomenal movie about The Holocaust, that to this day some people say never happened. If you get the chance watch Roberto Begnini’s 1998 Best Foreign Film ‘Life Is Beautiful’. Equally powerful and told through the eyes of a European Jewish father in the latter years of the war (‘44-‘45) protecting his son from the horrors and atrocities around him. You will not be disappointed.
Slight correction - Life is Beautiful is told through the eyes of a young boy who could not comprehend the horrors but sees it through the perspective his father illustrates for him.
When he starts breaking down, talking about how he could have done more, is the part that gets me the most. 😥
Mellow, in answer to your question about the child in red during the liquidation of the ghetto...I have always thought that she represented Oskar Schindler's humanity or his compassion or empathy. Up until that point, the Jews were just an element in his scheme...a way to maximize his profits. But witnessing the brutality of the Germans clearing the Jews out like that shocked him awake, and he began to see them as human beings for the first time. 🖖✌
I highly recommend you read Night, by Eliie Wiesel. www.amazon.com/Elie-Wiesel-Night-Paperback-Revised/dp/B01FODC88O/ref=sr_1_10?crid=3CUJDT4SNK38Z&dchild=1&keywords=night+elie+wiesel&qid=1617140283&s=instant-video&sprefix=night+eli%2Cprime-instant-video%2C148&sr=1-10-catcorrl
Just 'cause you seemed confused:
When Schindler threatened those two guards; "You'll be in southern Russia" he was implying he's have them sent to the Russian front lines, a notoriously deadly assignment for German soldiers.
Also Amon Goeth's granddaughter is biracial, and learned about him by chance, when she found a book about her mothers own experience finding out about what he did! It's a whole crazy story, 2 generations finding out by complete surprise.
It's ok not to know.
It's good to learn.
It's bad to forget.
It's worse to ignore.
No truer words can be spoken about this period of horror!
Resist . Insist. Persist
Worse to ignore , say that to literally the whole world whos ignoring basically the same shit happening with the Uyghurs in Concentration camps in China right fucking now
@@PowerfullMG the nazi camps were by far worse than the ones in china
Don't allow anyone to tell you there is a good excuse for starving, harming, displacing, murdering a group of civilians. Not just for those souls that Hitler murdered.
Little known fact: every time this movie is broadcast on German television, there are no commercial breaks, to truly bring home the gravity of this story and not just have it be handled like a regular blockbuster
Felicia of German girl in America said world War 2 history is required subject in schools in Germany.
@@nathanlewis5682 I mean yeah, why wouldn’t it? It’s a grand but disgraceful part of our history, and the one thing we’re still mostly exclusively known for in the realms of history
The one time I've seen this movie was the first time it aired on American TV. It was presented with no commercials and no editing. My mom knew it was something important for me to see. I was about 12 and it was the first and only time I've seen such cruel violence.
German people own this atrocity and do everything in their power to not let it happen again. Meanwhile in America a huge chunk of the population deny racism is a problem.
Man fühlt sich zwar nicht mehr verantwortlich für die horrenden Verbrechen und Machenschaften der Nazis aber man trägt immernoch die Verantwortung, dafür zu sorgen, dass sie nie wieder passieren.
The solo violin in the soundtrack is played by Itzhak Perlmann, his parents were saved by Oscar Schindler
Perlman's parents immigrated to Israel, then Palestine, during the 30s. Before WW2
@@MsShelie Palestine doesnt exist
@@tomerart9544 הי תומר. תרגום לעברית של מה שכתבתי: "הוריו של פרלמן עלו לישראל, פלשתינה של אז, בשנות השלושים. לפני מלחמת העולם השנייה."
אין שום התייחסות ל'פלשתין' במשמעותה כיום.
@@MsShelie I thought you meant Israel, and then they went to Palestine
@@cg558 nothing just stating the obvious I guess
The actors who played the German soldiers would sometimes break down between takes because of what they were portraying. The other actors tried to comfort them, saying "we know this isn't who you are".
The most mind bending thing is the violence and brutality in this film is toned down from what really happened. It is so important these stories are not lost so we can try and remember when these events happened so we can recognize the attitudes we they rise around us.
I believe that they almost got rated X, one of the only movies that would be been at that rate.
Proves the depth of the nazi war crimes.
I remember when E! did a behind the scenes of the Film, they said during shooting Ralph Fiennes Scenes, they had some of the Real Life Schindler Jews who remember being around the real life monster Ralph played, and it was said they he was so convincing that when Ralph came out to meet them, they were trembling in fear.
I am Hispanic and raised a Jew. Living in the country. I can understand and experience hatred so easily. I was kidnapped as an infant and sent for adoption so someone in South America can collect a pay check. BTW, Chile is SO pro nazi to this day, it’s sickening. Barely all Chilean population are nazi, just a select few. But still. My crisis of identity has turned me into an alcoholic
@@Bonz-vc8zd my condolences for all the wrongs you have faced, that sounds awful. I've been down the dark road of alcoholism too, being completely hosed was standard protocol for years, it ain't fun. I tried a bigass dose of mushrooms and LSD together about six years ago now and I've been sober since with no effort on my part, it's one of those alcoholic miracles that never happens but did lol. I don't know, maybe see what a couple grams of mushrooms will do for you, it's helped a lot of people kick the sauce. It will help with the psychological aspect of things more than you can possibly imagine.
The most heartbreaking line I think I’ve ever heard in cinema is when Schindler said “ I could have got one more person... and I didn’t.”
Indeed
Yip, Tom Hanks "earn this" line at the end of Saving Private Ryan is another one!
A selfish person says "I've helped enough." A righteous person says "I could have helped more."
@@coffeetalk924 I thought that was lame
Yes that always makes me cry like a baby
Don't beat yourself up over not knowing about this. History isn't taught very well in most countries.
Truth. I didn't know about this until I finally watched this movie(and I only watched the film maybe...three years ago?)
It's pretty embarrassing tbh. I don't think what school what country should make a difference at his age.
@@Miliusmedici what?
I’m the grandson of Holocaust survivors, and while I knew plenty about the Holocaust growing up, I hadn’t heard of Schindler at the time I first saw this movie in the theater at age 16.
@L M we spent more time learning about WW2 than almost any other time period. Even in English class I remember reading the book Night by Elie Wiesel in middle school. Watched Schindler’s List in class in high school. It’s just that people don’t pay attention to any of it and they just do the homework and remember enough for the tests and promptly forget about it
Robin Williams used to call Steve Spielberg every week cracking jokes, basically do a stand up comedy act on the phone while Spielberg was filming this movie so he can get a break from the heaviness of the scenes.
@@Gnossiene369 what are you talking about? Spielberg said this in an interview. Even Robin Williams said he did it.
@@Gnossiene369 Remember they are both Jews that lost family in the Holocaust, so Robin Williams understood how badly it was devastating his friend.
@@Gnossiene369 That's a pretty shitty response. It's not rude at all, what are you even on about?
@@VadulTharys Robin Williams isn’t Jewish
@@Gnossiene369 uhh, maybe relax dude
19:15 "Is that little girl even real?"
She is used in the movie as a symbol of an innocent dying to the cruelty of men. But yes, a girl like her existed. Her name was Gittel Chill, a young 4 years old girl who was known in the ghetto for her bright red coat. Her parents fled to the countryside at the start of the war, and they couldn't bring their young baby with them, so they left her in the Krakow city with her uncle, who was a doctor in the ghetto.
In the end, the little girl died during the extermination of the ghetto, and both her parents also didn't survive the war.
There was a man Nicholas Winton who saved over 600 children like this in the war. Decades later they held a ceremony in an opera house to honor him and asked everyone who he saved or was descended from someone he saved to stand up, and the entire audience of the oprea house stood before him.
I once went to a history lecture given by a woman who was saved by him as a child. It was incredible.
He was knighted for his work.
There should be a movie about him.
It was touching to see.
IIRC he kept it all a secret until his wife accidently found out
Never be ashamed of what you don't know. The fact that you received this information with such humility, empathy, and compassion says more about your heart than whatever facts you may not have known.
I don't know about this comment. Every person that has iota of intelligence, maybe discernment is a better word, should know that Nazi Germany systematically, in their cold cruel logic murdered of millions of people because they were Jews. I knew about it when I was in 3rd grade.
@@jackasswhiskyandpintobeans9344 No one has identical lived experiences. So while you learned about it in school it doesn't mean others had the same access or opportunity. If someone doesn't know something you can't fault them for not knowing. You can only judge the willfully ignorant. This person is not willfully ignorant - he just wasn't exposed to this level of detail on the Jewish Holocaust. Now he knows, now he understands, now he will move forward and continue learning.
Yeah Thank You, We’re All Different People. As Whisky Learned This At The Age Of Three, I Didn’t Learn It Til Middle School And When They Taught Us They Just Breezed Through It. They Didn’t Go Into Much Detail And Didn’t Show Us Movies Like This Or Documentaries. It Was Basically Like Someone Showing Me A Picture Of Concentration Camp And Just Say, “That’s A Concentration Camp.... Ok Now Let’s Move On To The Next Chapter.”
@@HelloMellowXVI 3rd grade, not 3yo. As a 9yo I did not know enough about life to be morally outraged.
@@HelloMellowXVI If you ever get the chance, there is a DVD documentary I watched years ago, "The Occult History of the Third Reich." Very informative, but made me physically and mentally ill when I first watched it.
I see that everyone watching has signed up for the group cry session today.
It's good to know I was not crying alone.
I ain’t crying! 😭😭😭😭😭
I thought it was bad enough when I watched the movie or listen to the music from the movie but I can't even make it through these reactions without a good ugly cry. This movie has a direct line to the pain center of my brain.
I'm not crying,i swear,but yeah it sad
If you don't cry or at least have a heavy heart or ponder about morality when you watch this then your inhuman
Want to make another comment...you are the first person at the end of the film that went into prayer at the 3 minutes of silence Schindler asked for in your reaction video. I’ve been binging these videos all week. Seen probably 30-40 of them. You are the FIRST that went into prayer for the victims as Schindler asked. It was a real moment. Genuine. Not for views or clickbait. It was a moment of true humanity from you. Thank you for that.
During production, many of the actors/extras playing nazis were disappearing into the bathrooms for long periods of time. Spielberg became concerned that maybe there was a food poisoning issue with craft services. It turned out that they were crying, then pulling themselves back together when being called back to the set.
Not true.
To have worked onset of this film would have been something else.
I was wondering how you know it’s not true?
@@GullibleTarget how do you know?
@@GullibleTarget Yes it was my ex-girlfriends father was an extra and many young germans were hired as extras for the movie Spielberg wanted real German speakers.
Many of them struggled especially those playing the SS troops and her dad said for those of us who were german the shame was for many unbearable.
Your reaction is heartfelt. As a Jewish person of Holocaust survivors, I could not watch this movie only one time. 36 of my ancestors died in Auschwitz so for me it hits home. Thanks for this reaction though.... now you know.
What is truly baffling to me is that Jews are being harassed, persecuted and murdered today and no one bats an eye.
@@jackasswhiskyandpintobeans9344 It's not just jewish people though. Many people are murdered for being different or believing in something different, even today. It has never really stopped, just changed places.
@@srccde I responded and it was deleted...hmmm.
@@jackasswhiskyandpintobeans9344 ?
@@srccde A story. A few years ago at work on downtime. Was reading the wiki entry on the "Nanjing Massacre." Couldn't finish it. Made a comment to my co-worker that the event was mind numbingly horrid. She turned to me and said, "Well, my ancestors suffered X" I was at a loss for words, I remember thinking, "X was horrid but I wasn't talking about X." She rationalized suffering into a hierarchy of suffering. That is a scary prospect, because it means we have learned nothing.
The scene where Schindler cried at the end of the movie shows what good man he was. A good man dosent feel good about saving 1000 lives...he weeps for the 1 he couldn't
❤
The shepherd came back for the 1 after having 99. ❤️
I was in 7th grade when Sept 11th happened. My teachers decided to change the curriculum. We read Anne Frank's diary, watched Schindlers list and Roots. They wanted to make sure we understood what hate can cause. And to be empathetic. I will never forget that.
And now 22nyears later, Israel has suffered a 9/11 of ten times per capita, American and other children in western democracies openly despise Jews and demand their extermination once again. What hate can cause lies only in the wake of total ignorance. That Israel came to America's aid and provided so much intelligence in the 'War on Terror' only to be utterly abandoned and despised now in their own time of need just shows how utterly vile human beings can be.
Back when schools used to be something.
I agree the history curriculum in schools should show movies or documentaries like this movie. It really shows what happened before our generation.
1 million Iraqis still died after that, though.. Bush lied.
@@moniquesbeautylifeover50 They still do this in school for me as someone currently in school.
They actually invited survivors that were at this camp on to the set when they saw the lieutenant guy they almost had a heart attack at how well the actor played him.
I want to know more about this
A woman, i think her name was Ida pfefferberg was on the film Set. She startet shaking when she saw Ralph Fienes who played Amon Goeth in the SS Uniform.....
Fines said that he was in costume and an elderly polish woman spoke to him and said something to the effect of gushing and thanking him that "they" were finally back to "save us".
@@Caprieye789
An actual survivor visited the set, and as soon as she saw the actor she suffered a panic attack because apparently he looked, sounded and acted almost exactly the same as the actual Monster of a man.
@Dolf Dogeler
Excuse me?
One of the most horrifying aspects is that when Schindler Jews were shown the full movie and asked if it was overdramatized, they said that the reality was much worse than what this movie shows. Just shows how deprave humans can be to one another.
Amon Goetz killed as he did because he knew he wouldn't pay any price for his crimes.
Imagine if Joe Biden said:" if any person kills an African American that person would not have to go to Jail." The murder of African Americans would skyrocket.
Not a surprise, for two reasons.
1. It would be unreleasable if they did (NC-17 if if was released at all, and unrated direct-to-video was barely a thing in 1993).
2. More importantly, the human mind. "Refuge in Audacity" is a common name for it. Once you go past a certain point, the brain tends to filter itself. He likely would've been accused of "overdoing" it simply because if people didn't know everything about the original actions, it would be nearly impossible to comprehend. I've heard of people who voted "not guilty" in trials simply because they refused to believe that a human was capable of doing what was described to them.
This is why the Jews were brought into public view at the end of the war instead of rushed to treatment (Broad brush phrase there, but you get the idea). What happened was so vile that until they saw it personally rational people wouldn't believe it was really happening. That it was so extreme was likely one of the reasons (That and the propaganda and lies by the leaders, of course) that it managed to happen under people's noses.
If people weren't generally aware that the holocaust was a point to suspend their usual disbelief, even the movie would seem a bit much. I suppose it makes a point when the movie doesn't *need* to be exactly what happened, and yet still gets a strong message across.
It makes you really think how they could stand doing the things they did. It's because they dehumanized the Jews and instead viewed them as vermin who needed to be exterminated. Truly horrifying stuff.
@@matthewcastleton2263 And that's sadly still the way why and how people can write horrible things about other people.
It is sad, but human beings are capable of anything. Anything.
I read that a survivor was asked how accurate the movie was. He replied, "Not brutal enough."
@Steven GENNERO Bootz I love to learn and read about historic people. Do you remember the name of the book?
@Steven GENNERO Bootz Found it! Thank you so much.
Yeah they really hide the violence... And the black and white doesnt help I think.
Even youtube censor historic archives... But reality is closer to that th-cam.com/video/T6P_LiWqRO0/w-d-xo.html
@@kolapso3687 If it had been in color it would have been an exploitation film.
Sir, your review of Schindler’s list brought me to tears. This may be long, but I am an older Jewish lady and I do not know how to use less words to describe how you made me feel watching this movie and your reaction to it. You see, my family includes two holocaust survivors. They were from different families and actually managed to survive. Their stories are like this one, filled with luck, and randomness in a world gone mad. Their survival was against all odds, and sometimes their lives depended on other people, like Mr. Schindler, risking his own life to protect them, hide them, help them, feed them. Sometimes “just survive one more day” was what kept them alive.. Your reactions of “Why?!? How! What the Fuck?!!!!” are exactly what mine were when learning about the holocaust when I was very young, as you are now. Jewish people call the holocaust the Shoah. In fact, Spielberg actually set up something called the Shoah Foundation where he made it his mission in the 1990’s to record as many actual survivors’ stories on film before those people passed away (as many were getting so old by the 1990’s) so that people like you would be able to hear a true story directly from the actual mouths of those who survived the holocaust themselves. You can actually watch them on TH-cam now! My family history is recorded there as well. I only keep my family name from you as mine is only one story…like the small girl in the pink dress. Her character and the one bit of color in a long black and white film, was to show she was one of over 9 million people killed in the Shoah (6 million of them were Jews). I read that Speilberg made this movie to honor his children and his heritage as a Jew, telling the story of the Jews from an actual Jewish person behind the lens was so important to him. He also has several black children whom he adopted and he made the movie Amistad for them, to honor their black history and pay tribute to the horrors of slavery in America.
However, it is you and your loving and heartfelt reactions to these events that moved me to write to you, as you were moved by the story of my people. Your reactions and your tears impacted me so powerfully that I struggle to find the words to tell you how much it meant to me, personally. You see, when we, as Jews, speak of the Shoah, our motto is Never Forget. And Never Again. It is our heartfelt hope that this never happens again in the world, to anyone - whether the group of people is black, or muslim, or women, or part of any group that people would begin to blame for the wrongs of the world. Which is why you speaking on the TH-cam about this is so important, so people will learn from the Shoah, perhaps of the dangers of blame and hate and the ability of humanity to be cruel and ruthless. We must, each of us, protect our world from that. It is said that if we do not learn from history, we are doomed to repeat it.
To understand the Shoah (if such a thing is even possible), Jews try to educate people, and most especially young people like you, to watch for signs of how this was done. What frightens me most about the Shoah, is that the Nazis were human beings as well. That this actually happened. And that the people who did this were very smart. You see, managing to kill over 9 million people (6 million of whom were Jews) actually takes a lot of organization. It involves engineers, trains, time tables, and very complex plans. All of which requires smart people = lawyers, legislators, doctors, and people with much knowledge and learning. You see, what the Nazis did was totally legal in Germany, as the laws were changed slowly over time, once Hitler had people who thought like he did he worked tirelessly to get them in positions of power to recreate a world without Jews. It happened over the course of 10 years leading up to the events we see in the film. Taking away people’s rights slowly so they get used to one thing and think, well o.k., it sucks, but I guess it could be worse. Then in 2 months another small thing is put into place, you must wear a jewish star on your clothes. Then another thing is outlawed (right to have a business), then the right to own a home, then you must move to the ghetto, bringing only one suitecase…until we are ready to kill you as quickly as we can, using you as labor to make this plan happen. This plan was known as the Final Solution. What scares me also sometimes in these times is that this was done often through misinformation, much like we see today, where people are not sure exactly what news to believe. And if something sounds quite horrible they think, “this cannot be true!” That can be used to manipulate many minds and thoughts. As can the erasing of history and facts. When the Nazi in history watches the extreme actions and killings of people in the ghetto clearing in the film, he says “You see? We will erase the past six centuries!” it made my heart so cold and frightened. But I became frightened again when you said “I never learned about this in school.” I could see clearly the shock in your face that some of these facts were the first time you’ve encountered this. I worry that the Shoah will be erased in our time, by not teaching children and young people what really happened. I thought for many years that education would help the world, but education without morality and ethics, without compassion, can lead to much evil in this world. So I love that you are educating yourself (Bravo!) as well as other people through TH-cam about such important things. But most importantly - you are also doing it with an equal dose of compassion. Your empathy is epic and will serve you well in this life.
I say all this to impress upon you what a special and talented person you are. Your ability to analyze and study film, your deep feelings about performances, your amazing talent to understand cinematography, color, and feel and express so beautifully what your thoughts are - you are truly very, very special. What also moved me is your humility. Apologizing for not being taught these things and not being a person to look things up…you found your way to this story, thank God. The failures of others who did not teach you this is not yours to bear, my dear boy. Just because you don’t know something yet is not your fault. Bless you for finding out things and for the wonderful reactions you have to new information! (I am very old and learn new things each day, how wonderful!) And without studying and reading or having it explained to you, you pick up exactly what I (with many words, perhaps nowhere nearly as effective as this Spielberg movie) could ever manage to teach you about the Shoah. I say this humbly, and in awe of your empathy and kindness toward the story of my people, the Jews, depicted in Shindler’s List. I hope with all my heart that you will find a career working in film and in analysis of film, as I can see how much you love it, and how your incredible talent and the truth of your feelings shines through.
Please know that should you ever need a friend, or to talk or ask questions, if I can help you in any way, please contact me directly. I do not know how social media or the TH-cam works, but I will count on you and the cleverness of your generation to find me if you need advice or wisdom, or just a friend to talk to.
I hope that at some point you revisit the subject of the Shoah with the movie, The Pianist. With your love of music, I think you will be equally moved by the performances, the music and the filmmaking. However, one of the things I love most about you is your laughter! Mel Brooks is also a Jew, and I watched your reactions tof Blazing Saddles and giggled along with you. I can’t wait to see more of you and your reviews! I would also humbly request that maybe you would enjoy Raising Arizona, as that movie makes me laugh my ass off, and I would hope it would bring you some joy. May you continue to find success making people think, making them laugh, and doing what you do best! May God bless you and keep you, may he shine his countenance upon you and bring you peace.
With love and the deepest respect for your work,
Heather
Sadly it does keep happening in various countries like Yemen, Many countries in Africa have had genocides in recent memory but no other country gets involved in that as its not bothering them in any way and until it does they won't.
@@micheletrainor1601 genocides still happen and it’s terrible. Simultaneously, there are not comparable to the Holocaust, so let’s not do that.
I just read your comment currently watching this reaction video even though it's only 2 years old however I was taken to the movie theater to see this movie when I was about 13 this message I write to you maybe a little long as well and I hope you read it as far as I know nobody in my family is too but I don't know anything about my mother's father because she's the result of a rape so there's a whole side of my family that I don't know about but I was always abnormally intelligent and read a lot and found out about the Holocaust on my own long before we studied about it in school and it broke my heart something inside of me broke and even as a young girl I could understand that it wasn't right I had been in church and Sunday school since before I could walk and talk so I knew that the Jewish people were the chosen people of God so I have always felt a special kindred affection for them I became obsessed with learning everything I could about the Holocaust when I was only in the sixth grade some might have considered it abnormal or macabre but I was just trying to understand how somebody could be filled with so much hate that they could be put in a position of power to actually cause something like this to happen of course I remember watching The sound of music when I was younger but I was too young to understand what was going on and what the movie was actually about so by the time this movie came out in the theaters I was already well aware and well-educated on the history and events of the Holocaust I barely made it through the movie and by the time it was over and I went home I wanted to vomit my stomach hurts so bad I just felt like I had been put through an emotional shredder I have a very deep love and admiration for the Jewish and I would like to tell you that I have a very deep love respect and admiration for your two family members that are survivors of the Holocaust I myself am a survivor of a most horrific event and even though the two were completely unrelated I understand the fear and the terror and the state of mind that your relatives must have suffered through for the rest of their lives I just wanted to take a little bit of time out of my day you let you know that you your race your relatives and anyone who suffered during this time. Will always be held close with love in my heart have a blessed and lovely day
Shalom ❤
Sadly, this is happening again.
As you stated, it took Hitler years to place people in power, in various sectors. Now, the WEF has accomplished that and is so proud of it that they even said it for all to see and hear.
They have infiltrated Govornments, the main stream media, the education system and more. Not just in one country, but on a global scale. The west was their main target and they achieved that.
We are literally living through what you rightly stated should never happen again.
It's only a matter of time before people are exterminated with biological weapons which will be much worse than covid, specificly designed to kill millions.
I am one of those such Jews that educate the young people about the Shoah. I lost all but my maternal grandmother & great grandmother in the the Shoah. I found out when I was in 6th grade and I just thrust myself into learning about it. I went to Israel to serve in the ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES. I did what I could to honor those that I lost.
There were actual Schindler Jews and death camp survivors on set during filming who served as advisors. When Ralph Fiennes walked on set in costume, he resembled the real Amon Goeth so much that some of the survivors began uncontrollably trembling with fear and panic to the point where they couldn't be around him when he was in character and left the set. Also, the girl in the red coat dies in the movie but actually survived the Holocaust and the war in real life. Interesting note is that Amon Goeth's granddaughter is a black woman who wrote a book titled My Grandfather Would've Shot Me when she found out about her lineage.
As a Jewish person, I respect you so much for reacting to this movie, and for remaining so open and respectful. Not only are you learning by watching this, your viewers who also not might be as familiar with the Holocaust are learning too. The atrocities in this movie are really only the the tip of the iceberg of what really happened. If you’re interested, I highly recommend the documentary “Shoah,” and the films “Life is Beautiful,” “The Devil’s Arithmetic,” and “The Pianist.” Also, Steven Spielberg was inspired to make this because he himself is Jewish. The Jewish people fundamentally have a relationship with the Holocaust, even if they didn’t lose family or have family living in Europe at the time because we understand that we have a duty to remember. It’s talked about every year on our high holy days, and on Holocaust Remembrance Day we farther in the synagogue and read off a portion of the 6 million names of those who died. Thank you again for reacting to this so that those lost will never be forgotten.
I'm italian and Life is Beautiful is a very overrated movie in my opinion. Train of Life (Train de vie) was much better.
My best three movies about Shoa: The Pianist (i remember i couldn't speak for hours when i finished it for the first and only time, that's enough for me to bear), Schindler's List and Son of Saul.
@@vladimirmandingo6033 The Pianist is incredibly difficult to watch. Certainly a breathtakingly emotional film and you only have to watch it once for the full effect as you say.
Every person in the world has a duty to remember and learn from the Holocaust..
My grandmother (on my father’s side) was German and was a small child during WWII, she came from one of the families that resisted Hitler and his regime.
And my Norwegian grandfather (on my father’s side) was put in a consentration camp because he was a part of the resistance.
May your God Bless you,
We shall never forget.
“Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The most extensively recorded act of genocide in human history, still in living memory for many people . . . and there are still those who deny it ever happened.
@@darastarscream it’s despicable.
It’s already happening unfortunately for all of us
We have that today.... Even some law makers that believe what's going on today is okay never understanding history themselves.
It really is amazing that some people can look at all the mountains of evidence and dismiss all of it because "BuT tHe DoOrS oF tHe gAs ChAmBeRs ArE mAdE oF wOoD sO iT's NoT rEaL!!!"
Regarding the red coat of the little girl, Spielberg said in an interview that something like this actually happened. They forced all the people to go to one place, but no-one took notice of a little girl in a bright red coat. He also said it was a symbol for the politics at the time. He said that he's convinced the people in power outside of Germany knew what happened at the time and let it happen. Just like the little girl in such an obvious colour could walk down a street full of soldiers rounding up and shooting Jews left and right, without anyone stopping her.
Spielberg's explanation for his use of color was to draw your eye to important characters and events. The candle flames that are extinguished representing the loss to come, the candles lit at the sabbath are hope renewed, etc... And the little girl shows the loss of an innocent going completely unremarked.
@@phydeux That's how I understood the red coat too. This innocent child walking amidst the carnage and the terror and the anguish and the inhumanity
The actress that played the little girl is from Krakow, Poland
IMO seeing the girl in red changed Schindler. He just realized the innocence of the little girl and how wrong this was. He gained more humanity.
Ralph Fiennes did an amazing job depicting the worst of humanity
Fiennes had to TONE DOWN his portrayal from the real thing. They had Holocaust survivors as advisors for accuracy; he gave them flashbacks.
Sad part is Göth was not the worst of them
Rumor has it that he met a survivor on the scene in character and the lady almost went to cardiac arrest , he payed evil so well, that she thought that the real Aamon Göth is standing front of her.
Ralph Fiennes did an amazing job playing the worst of humanity!
Amon goethe is literally a case study of evil...
Ralph Fiennes was totaly robbed in the Oscar, man, his performance was monstrously perfect and terrifying.
@sean smyth yes
@sean smyth US Marshall, but yes.
You have got to be kidding me. He lost to The Fugitive? I'm sorry, but Tommy Lee Jones was playing the same thing he was always playing, there was no... yeah I can't even finish this comment.
@@MsLindaluu it is hard to believe, but is true, they gave the Oscar to Tommy Lee Jones for The Fugitive, but everybody agree that Fiennes was robbed, even DiCaprio deserved more for What's Eating Gilbert Grape than Tommy Lee Jones.
@@romulomontes8884 Tommy Lee Jones was arguably the least deserving nominee that year, not least of all because he was playing the same character he always played.
Ralph Fiennes played this role so well that a woman who survived under Amon Goeth and was visiting the set had a panic attack and had to leave, because he reminded her of Amon Goeth.
That was the actual Helen Hirsch.
Really ???? :-O
@@91Rudd yep.
the fact that he didnt win the oscar and that tommy lee jones won over him is a crime
@@matiassaenz9128 he didn't win because he played a nazi
When he says, "those six centuries... they will be nothing but a rumor." That is how fragile information and "the truth" is. It makes me think of 1984.. "Those who control the present control the past. And those who control the past control the future." Something to think about today.
WWII German Attrocities, Continous Occupation of Cyprus for more than 45 years and counting, Invasion of Ukraine by, Wars in Afghanistan and Horrific Oppression of Afghanis by their own radical groups , Yemen, proxy wars....
The globe is a shit show of fairness and human rights and people look the other way. Even in Quatar, where thousands of workers constructing the World Cup stadiums live in abject conditions and thousands have dies, FIFA looks the other way and the world does not care.
Yet, we hold the power, with what we choose and with what we boycott (to buy, to watch, to listen, to give our money and time to... ) for we are the customers,/powergives of every company, every governement. Instead of the few Evil men being afraind of the many good men, it is the contrary...
Shame... It happened and it happens to them, it will happen again, to others as well.
Power, Greed and Interests of they few can control the lives of millions..
And sadly, there are those in power today that are trying to erase the past for their own gain.
@Dolf Dogeler You know you bitching about how “it’s so inaccurate” Yet you don’t offer any correction. Which really makes me think you’re trollfagging. Which is pretty sad.
@Dolf Dogeler not sure what you are trying to say? The film is inaccurate? The Holocaust is inaccurate? God forbid if you are a denier! You will stand before God and may HE have mercy. "I (God) will bless them that bless thee (Israel-Jewish ppl and (God will) Curse them that curseth thee (Israel-Jewish ppl)...and in thee (Israel) will all the families of the earth be blessed (the Messiah)..." Genesis 12:3
@Dolf Dogeler you antisemite. Holocaust happened because of ppl like you. I'm a Jew so don't tell me that i don't know what my ppl went thru. Again, You will stand before YHVH. (Nothing else to say to your hate)
When I saw this film in the theatre, it ended and the only sound in the theatre were the sounds of the movie goers crying. What seemed like an hour passed. Nobody moved. Nobody got up to leave the theatre. I finally made my way to the ladies room before leaving and strangers were hugging each other sobbing. A woman in her 50’s approached me crying and said “They told us this never happened. It was just rumors. They lied. How can this be?” We stood there crying with each other. Perfect strangers. United in our pain, our disgust, and our ignorance. The story that we were taught in the schools in the 1980’s was a very clean version of reality. It is my belief that every teenager in America should watch this film as a requirement. I was changed permanently after seeing this film.
Over here it´s part of education in almost every school...
Your comment brought tears from my eyes.
This movie as well as the actual film footage of the camps should be required viewing. With a report due afterwards
Until the history is taught, instead of being "sanitized" or erased, humans are doomed to repeat these horrors!
I saw it in theater as well. Noone spoke. Noone moved for minutes after. It was like a funeral
This is a movie. The balcony like shown in the movie was to the other side of the house, away from the camp.
The SS-Kommandant Amon Göth had been arested in 1944 by Gestapo and brought to SS-court. Amon Göth was accused to steal from prisoners, torchured prisoners and killed prisoners. Amon Göth escaped in the chaos of the end of ww2.
Please notice, that the SS accused ca. 800 SS-members due to stealing from prisoners, torchering prisoners and killing prisoners inside the concentration-camps. 2x SS-Comandants had been sentenced to death including execution.
Please also notice, that the jewish-world-comitte declared "war on germany" on 24th march 1933 (without any reason). The jewish-world-comitte and his members repeatedly declared war on germany before ww2 started.
Following the international-red cross germany was allowed to put the jews into jail due to the several jewish-war-declarations....like US and GB did with germans and japanese inside their countries.
Dont get me wrong. For the people involved (torchered, murdered) it was a tragedy, but like always in history....even if a few are guilty the majority feels the trajedy.
The official story, that Hitler was the "evil" who caused all this is WRONG. Like today, there are interests in the world who wanted a war with germany for good reason (in my opinion it has been the new money-and-trade-system from Hitler, which ignored the international finance industry in Wallstreet and City-of-London).
I remember being in 10th grade in high school when this movie came out and our history teacher took us to see this as a kind of field trip. We were goofy teenagers going in like “we get to skip school, to go to the movies? Great.” When it was over, I don’t think anyone talked for the entire bus ride back to school.
Neat that your school actually allowed you to see it and learn some history.
Yeah in grade 10 history class we watched this movie, pretty insane but made everyone learn the gravity of the history which is hard to do through just text
yeah it was the same walking g out of a theatre full of adults just throat clearing and sniffles
This is why history MUST be taught to each generation. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Too late your government decided it’s not needed in schools anymore Apparently its not relevant history. I know real great.
Can't get away with stuff' like that today. Too many cameras everywhere.
No shame. None. Your reaction was pure. You learned. That’s human. That’s good human.
Shut up 😒
You shut up.
I didn't cry when i first watched it knowing such treatment was real... But the End almost made me tear up
Full of compassion and that's a great thing to have and if everyone had what you have then there would of been no pure evil Nazi scum
would "have" been. Would've is a contraction of "would have," not "woud of." Ditto could've, should've. Kinda like asking someone if they "have" done their homework, you don't ever say "Of you done your homework?"
Schindler’s list is based off a true story. And he is one of the only outsiders to be allowed to be buried in the sacred grounds he was buried in at the end
Dude not just that.. Descendants of the people he saved come to Oskar's grave every year. Every year!
@@oskarfjortoft don't mind him he's a nazi sympathizer, they deny the holocaust ever happened
@Dolf Dogeler so tell us smart boy, where do you get your real history?
@UCPWm0k5DryRZQ8ymgYKh78w fuck off you uneducated piece of filth. This man was a treasure to the world and a savior of over 1000 people that were sentenced to death. Although I suppose you also thing that the Holocaust and 9-11 were also fabricated by the government and media, you should leave and shut your mouth
@Dolf Dogeler
Nazi troll.
- Why would you show such terrible and awfully offensive acts so openly?
- So that way they have nowhere to hide.
History repeats itself unless we learn from the past. And you can’t learn from what you don’t know. Maya Angelou said when you know better you do better. When we say “Never Again” this is what we mean. When we thank the “Greatest Generation” now you know who they were facing and why we can never again be silent when we see any injustice.
I am from germany i a can say for sure that in Reality it was even worse. They killed 2 years old kid by throwing them against a wall or put them under a train
@@lelouchvibritagna2997 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
I was 14 when I saw this movie at the cinema and I will never forget he experience. Usually when you are leaving a cinema, people are talking, laughing, discussing their favourite moments, etc. Not after Schindler's list. The cinema was packed and yet, we all walked out in total silence at the end.
Well, that is a good sign, that despite ignoring many unjust things in life a lot people have still a reachable humanity and sense of what really is right or not. People should bring it up a little from their inner depths to let it out occasionally more often.
When this film was released we were among many lined up early for tickets we saw the people who had watched the film before us come out with tears still streaming out of their eyes so naturally you wonder what was going on. Watching the film by the time the film finished there was not not a dry eye in the place no matter if you were male of female. Then it was our turn with tears still streaming out of our eyes to walk past those lined up for the next showing who were wondering what was going on.
I remember this from the theater as well, and was actually exactly the same age you were. My mother felt like this was an important enough topic to take me to see it even though I was underage for it, and I've never experienced an atmosphere like it before or since. In the end, I didn't feel ready to get up and walk out for a long time, and a bunch of others didn't seem to either, as many just sat there for long minutes into the credits, pulling themselves together enough to leave.
Some interesting things about Amon Göeth's descendants: 1) Monika Hertwig, the child of his lover never really knew the true extent of her father's wickedness UNTIL she sat in a movie theater and actually saw this movie! Can you imagine finding out that way? She was in a documentary (a few others have mentioned it in the comments) with a survior of her father's brutality. Poor woman ranted at Göeth's daughter, even though the daughter had nothing to do with her father's actions. 2) His grandaughter is a black woman - the daughter of a Nigerian man that Hertwig dated for a while. She found out who her grandfather was by picking up a book quite by accident in a library. It was so traumatising that she had to call her husband to pick her up, as it brought on an instant panic attack and she suffered months long depression afterwards. She wrote a book titled: My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me.
They did a whole documentary on her and Rudolf Hoess's nephew. It was a while ago, but If you can find it, definitely worth a look.
That information about Monika Hertwig seems to be not true. She first heard about who her father was from her grandmother. From there on she repeatedly got information bits about her father, until she got the whole story apparently, when her mother gave an interview about Monika Hertwig's father while she sat in the room next-door. When she watched Schindler's List, she had a mental breakdown. But she knew about her father before watching the movie.
That last scene made my cry like a baby. When he realizes looking at his possessions and equated them to the more people he could have saved if he had sold them.
Same with the 9th episode of the mini series Band of Brothers. Nearing end of ww2 in Europe as Germany was losing the war, multiple concentration camps were discovered by US and allied forces. Some of the local citizens in a town claimed to have no idea there was a concentration camp nearby.
Steven Spielberg had family that died in the Holocaust. He felt compelled to tell about it through his art, which is film. My grandparents went through this hell, but worse because they ended up in the camps after the ghetto. It was a terrible time, and we must never forget it, lest we repeat it.
My gf had a great gran who was Dutch and she told me she grew up during the Holocaust, she used to make the Nazi soldiers at the camps cookies to distract them while others helped those imprisoned escape. Wish I could have met her
I am from germany i a can say for sure that in Reality it was even worse. They killed 2 years old kid by throwing them against a wall or put them under a train
I am really sorry for you losing your grandparents that way. I hope we Germans learned a lesson from it 😔
I had ancestors, too, who ended up going from Italy, as Italian Jews, to Auschwitz. They were not supposed to but when the Germans were being chased out of N. Italy, were my relatives were interred in work camps near Trieste, they were sent to Auschwitz. I know we say we must remember and we do remember but it keeps happening. Not on this scale, 10 million dead that we know of (not just Jews but homosexuals, etc), but in Bosnia, we watched it happen! We knew and did little. It is happening today in Nigeria. It is happening in China. It has been happening since WWII and before. We can remember all we want but it will never stop because humans are, when push comes to shove, evil. We are the only animal that kills for sport. Rapes. Goes to war. No other species does. Anyway, I wish you peace. Shalom.
Unfortunately this will be repeated to some group, religion, or race again.
I'm German and I was a 11 or 12 when I first watched this movie. I think first my Dad watched it with me on TV. Later I saw it once or twice in school too. It's such an important movie, even though despite being absolutely bone chilling it still barely scratches the full depths of atrocities committed in that time. The more you learn and read about that time, especially of eye witness accounts of survivors, the worse and worse it gets. I remember having nightmares when in 12th grade I had to read and study a book about the atrocities committed by 'doctors' who did 'experiments' on concentration camp inmates, with not anesthesia and an ever inevitable outcome.
The memory culture in Germany is strong about the holocaust. WWII and the atrocities committed by Germany are basically a topic every single year latest from 6th grade in various angles and intensities (as to be age appropriate). Most school children eventually visit a concentration camp. We still had the chance to talk to a survivor on our visit. Sadly younger generations don't get that chance anymore. True, some young people are annoyed with the amount of holocaust related material they are presented with throughout their childhood, but I do think most eventually come around and understand the severity of this part of our history. To grow up in Germany and deny the holocaust or refuse the responsibility for its remembrance you have to be in willful denial and ideologically completely lost.
As for the topic of national guilt, or the guilt people feel today about WWII and the holocaust. I do not think that any German born after WWII feels 'guilt' about it. It's a very off choice of word. We were not there. We had no say in it. HOWEVER, we do feel strong responsibility to try and understand how the nation could drift into a mass insanity like that, how millions of people could be dehumanized and deprived of their right to live like that, what are the early signs to look out for, what way does a nation's constitution have to be built to prevent these kind of things from happening, and to achieve all these things we need to never ever forget it and take responsibility as a people.
One example for the way the German constitution changed to prevent such atrocities or at least to make murderers in war accountable for their actions is, how German soldiers are by constitution not absolved anymore from the responsibility for their actions by claiming they were just carrying out orders. If a German soldier follows any order that goes against basic human rights and international conventions of war, he or she is a war criminal, period. The reason for this is that after the war thousands and thousands of murderers of the holocaust had that one excuse 'I was just following orders.' Now if orders go against our constitution or violate basic human rights, they are not to be followed, or else you're complicit in a crime. That's just one small example of how the constitution changed to prevent such atrocities from happening again.
Sadly even today their are still racists and anti-Semitic people in Germany, just like many places in the world. There will always be people who carry nothing but evil in their heart. All we can do is to do all we can to make sure they never gain majority or real influence ever again. The holocaust can never be made up for. The sheer scope of the atrocities... there is no real redemption to be had. But we do owe it to all the victims - Jews, Sinti and Roma, political opponents, homosexuals and physically as well as mentally disabled people - who were murdered, ripped off their loved ones and all they possessed, we owe it to them to still keep trying to remember and prevent it from happening again.
Well said. ❤️
Unlike in America where they let the losers of war write their own history. That is why there are people today in America that question if slavery was really that bad.
Thank you for this very thoughtful and important comment.
I had a girlfriend from Germany (we're still great friends to this day) who watched this movie once. Asked her about what her people think about this and she said that "We don't ever talk about it because most are so deeply ashamed of it being a part of our own history."
Moin..danke für den sehr fundierten Kommentar..ich hätte es nicht besser formulieren können..well done👍
The guy that played the German commander is the same guy that played Voldamort. He apparently played the roll so well that some of the extras on the set, who were actual survivors of this story in real life, had panic attacks because they remember the guy and he portrayed him so accurately.
Imagine how shitty he must feel playing as such an evil character tho too
@@Sodapop-rd5kupeople should forget voldemort, Amon Goeth was the most evil villain he ever played. And the worst part is, that the real Goeth seemed to be even more gruesome.
iirc the movie Amon Goethe is a toned down version of the actual dude. how he treated helen hirsch his maid would be seen as kindness
@@Pascal1607 Ralph also played lead the budapest hotel. he was hilarious!! tremendous actor with a wide range
Actually he took the part of Voldemort because his niece and nephew told him he had to do it.
When oscar talks about sending those officers to southern Russia.... he was talking about having them transferred to the Russian front to fight the red army, which was not a particularly ideal assignment to be given and officers and soldiers would do anything to avoid being transferred there because of how brutal the fighting and conditions were.
Look up the Siege of Leningrad. But don't eat anything first.
@@darastarscream yeh I've read about it before.
Especially since getting captured by the Americans was far better then being captured by the Russians. Some reports from German POWs during ww2 when asked how the Americans treated them they go, “I mean they gave us food, let us sleep, I guess pretty good” not saying that we didn’t commit war crimes too just saying 😂
Especially in the later war years, the Russian front was a virtual death sentence.
@@chasescanlon6488 which is why in the final years of the war german troops tried to get as far west as they could so they could try an surrender to American and British forces..... don't worry after the war the allies changed the definition of war crimes so they couldn't be held accountable for the atom bomb attacks on Japan or any of the other things they did that would normally be classed as war crimes.
My school in Sweden. We went to Schindler’s factory, Auschwitz, museums and learnt the WW2 history in Warsawa for a week. So we could see history for ourselfs. They did that every year for every student for free. I think that is the best way of learning. To actually see history
I went aswell, with my school in Gothenburg. Back in 2015/2016 i think.
How wonderful that your school educates all of its students, regardless of finances, about such an important part of history. It's harder being in Australia but I still visited an Extermination Camp in Austria whilst I visited Europe many years ago. It's something that everyone should learn about so that it can never occur again.🇦🇺
@@krisushi1 absolutely! We must learn history to not repeat it
Going to the Warsaw museum, Krakow, and Auschwitz/ Birkenau was the best and saddest trip i have ever taken. I had never even heard of the Polish resistance fighters of Warsaw before i went there. I also never knew that Russia stayed on the outskirts of Warsaw while Germans were flattening the city and killing off the resistance fighters all because they wanted to colonize Warsaw after the Germans were done.
@@B-Killin You should read up about the "Katyn Massacre" if you haven't already.
My mother's best friend was born in a camp. The only reason she survived was because before capture, her mother was a doctor and was useful to them. She was almost 2 when the camps were liberated. She's still alive in Paris. Her mother died at 103 years old. My mother's friend told me that the only thing she remembers (again, she was barely 2) from the entire ordeal was an American soldier giving her chocolate.
A fact about Ralph Fiennes in this movie. One of the women who was a girl during these events that was a Schindler Jew visited the set of the movie during filming. When she saw him in character and in costume as Amon Goeth she fell to the ground in shock and fear because he looked and acted EXACTLY like she remembered him from the concentration camps.
not really "Fun"
@@Boki_86 I meant interesting, poor choice of words
@Necramonium She wasn't the only survivor on the set. There were some others employed as consultants, and they freaked out, too.
I’m not so sure the fact was a fun fact
And Ralph immediately broke character and went to comfort her.
21:05 When this movie was being made, a Holocaust survivor visited the set...
And she lost it when she saw the actor for Amon, like that monster was back from the dead...
Her reaction confirmed for everyone that this movie did not exaggerate anything. Amon was very well portrayed in the movie, which terrifies me.
Ralph Fiennes won a BAFTA for best supporting actor for this role. The man is remarkable.
I think that was his daughter
@@stevevorgias6734 Not in this instance, but his daughter did say she could basically tell which actor was her dad from the jump, which is just further confirmation.
Many survivors said they underrepresented his brutality, which is horrifying to even try and think about.
trivia: he was expelled from the third reich because even they couldn't tolerate his actions. how bad do you have to be that even the Nazis don't want anything to do with you?
I watched a documentary about the making of this movie. And it said that the real Amon Göth was even more evil and cruel than in the movie. Spielberg was afraid that people might not believe it if he made this character more true to the historic person ..so for the sake of the movie he played it down a bit.
It's kind of like the of hacksaw ridge. They actually took out parts of Desmond Doss' story because the filmmakers thought no one would believe it if they left those parts in.
Ralph Fiennes should of won an oscar for his roll in this movie. He did absolutely amazing
I can get through every scene without crying until i get to the “I could have got more” scene. Survivors guilt is a terrible terrible suffer to bear the rest of your life
Same here. Most powerfully empathetic scene I've ever witnessed
Same. It's the only scene in film I always cry from the bottom of my soul at. I can just feel his pain.
That is the one scene that affects me the most....and Liam played it so very well...one of the BEST performances in cinema history! 🤯🥺😭😭😭
The real Oskar Schindler dealt with it for the rest of his life. The bribes he paid during the war to save all of the Schindler Jews' lives bankrupted him. He lived in poverty for the rest of his life.
I dont cry at alot of movies but this bit got me
Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goeth was one of the greatest villainous performances of all time, he ranks up there with Heath Ledger's Joker, Javier Bardem's Anton Chigurh, and Anthony Hopkins' Hannibal Lecter.
Yep. While filming the movie, they had one of the real Schindler survivors on set, and she was getting anxiety watching him perform and had to leave because it reminded her of the real person.
yeah almost as good as the guy who plays Lord Voldemort.
And it was Fiennes' FIRST movie role.
Should check out Jason Clarke as Reinhard Heydrich in ‘Killing Heydrich’ / ‘The Man with the Iron Heart’
@@orcanimal And when Ralph saw it, he immediately broke character and went to comfort her.
Yes, the Schindler Jews are real. There's a documentary where Amon Goeth's daughter meets the Jewish woman whom he kept as his house mistress during their time at his camp. It's worth a watch. Very interesting. Don't apologize. You're learning about something. You're obviously very serious and thoughtful about it and that comes across.
There's also a documentary that has Himmler's daughter Gudrun gives remorse to surviving Jews.
do you know the name of the documentary? i would love to watch it, ive been following the holocaust for a long time now since i didnt pay attention in high school and it really is something i want to learn everything i can about... its so scary how people can be capable of such a inhumane existence and the scary thing to me is if it has happened once, it can happen again.
@@brittnyjones9146 It's called Inheritance. Here's a link to the wiki article about it, for some background: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inheritance_(2006_film)
@@djlp2212 That sounds interesting. Do you know what it's called? I'd like to see it.
@@mytvcompilationstation9690 I saw it on Netflix but can't remember the name.
I lost family at Auschwitz and this movie crushes me every time. I’m so glad you took the time to watch this because our memories will help ensure this never happens again. Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it. Respect
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Unfortunately it is already being repeated, just on a global scale.
I am so sorry. Are you ok? Xx
Sadly, I lost my great-grandpa there as well. One day, the guards were shooting into the gathered crowd on the main square without provocation. Recoil from his rifle made my dear great-grandpa lose his balance and he tumbled over the railing of his watchtower. 😞
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you for watching this and reacting to it. I am 64 and my father was in the Army in WWII. His unit liberated one of the smaller concentration camps and he was never the same. People tell me how he was before the war but that was not the man I grew up with. If we don't take care history repeats itself...this could happen again.
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Yet in this country we ignore what happens to black people , and say that BLM doesn't matter
@@gerosuarez2 wtf are you talking about ?? And I dare !
@@gerosuarez2 the point was that history repeats itself and I can compare the Holocaust because look how many black people slavery mercilessly slaughtered??! So yeah f&-+ off
@@gerosuarez2 black lives matter is a Marxist organization bc it wants to bring attention to horrific treatment of black people .... See it's this same BS talking points that caused the Holocaust and every other atrocity ... You cannot support black people and not support BLM ... There are crappy people in every organization that doesn't mean the the message is wrong... Which goes to show disingenuous people like you who want to muddy the water and conflate 2 different issues .
The part at the end where he expresses remorse over the Jews he didn’t save is the most tragic scene in the history of cinema. It’s a scene thats significance simply cannot be captured in words. I’m not ashamed to admit that I’ve teared up every time I’ve watched the scene, it’s just that heartbreaking.
Don’t be ashamed, emotions are normal and it’s ok to cry 👍 .
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do
My history teacher in 10th grade showed my class this movie. Every. Single. Person. In that class cried from this movie. Nobody knew the story and we were all shocked. It’s probably the most powerful movie I’ve ever seen.
This and American history X
So did mine, this was in Finalnd many years ago. I remember some of my classmates making jokes during some of the scenes while I was just trying to stop myself from falling apart.. Maybe they were just foolish and thought it was "just another movie", maybe it was a defense mechanism, to make light of it. Either way, my view on my classmates changed that day.
You should watch Hotel Rwanda.
Yes, yes, massive credit to the actors. But, my God, can we take a second to appreciate the absolutely perfect musical score John Williams and his crew composed to go along with the visuals? The main theme of Schindler's List is the most beautiful peace of music mankind has ever written.
“Why is he trying to make faulty shells?”
By the end Schindler doesn’t want to do anything that can aid the German war effort. There is some debate about the historical accuracy of this scene, but it falls basically in line with Schindler’s feelings turning against the German war effort.
I have my doubts about this scene being true.
Towards the end of the war, the Germans were running out of basically everything and definitely would notice if a factory wasn't producing anything
@@daustin8888 No no it's truth my great uncle told me he worked for one of his company's in 1939 to 1949. Mr. Oscar Schindler was good man and never wanted death.
@@daustin8888 it's true, but dramatized for cinema. The real story was that due to having so many "unskilled" laborers, the ammunition wasn't up to Wehrmacht standards. It does go into being historically true though because, after Schindler realizes that the ammunition was failing tests, he decided to help sabotage the Nazi war effort by encouraging ammunition to be assembled with loose tolerances (rendering them useless)
@@daustin8888 The Germans did not care, if there were shells being sent out to the front lines, they would be overrun within a couple weeks, if people did notice then they could blame the destroyed logistical lines or other nonsense, or Oskar would've paid off anyone saying otherwise. The Germans had many other factories that were making actual shells, Oskars factory was just a drop in the bucket, its a horrendous thought.
Whomever saves one life, saves the world entire.
"Southern Russia" means he's gonna have them sent to the Eastern front which was a death sentence basically.
I visited Krakow three years ago. The Schindler factory is still there and has photos of the people he saved. The guided tour of Auschwitz has to have been the most harrowing, but important, experiences I've had. Man's inhumanity to man knows no bounds. We must never forget lest we end up with the same again.
Such an honest reaction. Thank you.
18:40 The little girl in red was because the real Schindler's changing moment was watching a little girl in red wondering the streets during the whole ordeal while no one else cared.
It signified that as blatantly obvious (red coat) the atrocities were, the world turned a blind eye (little girl wandering around and no one doing anything).
Spielberg commented on this. The girl was the turning point and that all this violence was happening around her and she just walked calmly to her hiding spot. Later in the movie, Schindler sees her dead body in a pile and that must have really made it harder on him.
That little girl in red symbolises the America's ignorance upon the chaos happening with Jews. They did nothing about it even though they could have stopped it at right time 😥
And at the end they show the girl dead which says the Hope from America is Gone!!
@@sankethhs6559 How could they stop it? They could have bombed the gas chambers, but then the SS would have gone back to shooting the Jews. To do anything would have revealed that Great Britain had broken the Enigma and Lorenz codes, and if the Germans had changed them, it might have extended the war by 2 years, by which time the Nazis would have exterminated millions more.
@@sankethhs6559 that is absolutely not true and some propaganda bullshit right there.
Schindler's list is one of the most heartbreaking movies out there. It takes you on a journey and shows you how the evils of humanity can be overcomed by a simple act of kindness
The fact that you were so shocked watching the various scenes of atrocities in the movie (randomly shooting people for fun) is a reminder to me of how horrendous it all was. When I watched this movie for the first time, I wasn't as shocked as you were, because I knew more background knowledge about what happened in the holocaust and in the war. Seeing your reaction reminds me of how shocked I should be, and how shocked everybody should be, at the events which happened.
I had very similar reactions to his without his but with less crying.
I’ve always been frightened of the expression “those who are ignorant of the past are doomed to repeat it”. I’m glad you saw this movie. Doesn’t matter if you’re 25 or 95! I’m glad you were able to cry.
What’s worse is those who seek to suppress history intend to repeat it.
My father had two sons, the younger and his mother were killed in Auschwitz, the older was 16 years old and my father told me that he survived working in a factory but died right after the liberation by sickness. It was a shock when I saw the movie and find my brother's name in the list. My name Arabella is composed by the name of his sons Artur and Bella may they rest in peace 🌹
They STOPPED teaching this in school, along with lots of other history. When we forget history, we are likely going to repeat it.
🤣🤣🤣fact you believe this bullshit.
Bro shut up
I had heard they were not teaching this in history class anymore, and had hoped that it wasn't true.
My grandma's little brother died in WWII, guess no one's supposed to care
It's like they say, history always repeats itself
@@joannamcpeak7531 it depends on country. I'm Canadian. We watched this movie in our WW2 history class. Google if a country does mot teach it dose.
I seriously just rewatched this today. This film was voted #8 in the greatest American films. It was voted "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress in 2004 and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
And it is important to preserve this movie. This and other pieces of media that help us remember the times where humanity stood as low as possible.
Especially with all those Holocaust deniers appearing everywhere nowadays.
@@RTuga02 Back when I was a teenager, PBS had a show that included film shot at the concentration camps when they were liberated. I watched it, because I knew I had to learn and never forget.
@@RTuga02 Thank you!
as it should be
Sadly not many knew this story until Thomas Keneally wrote about in his book Schindler's Ark The film rights was taken by Spielberg who did a masterly job of bringing it to the screen.
Since the film came out it has become one of if not the most famous film ever. Today there are supposedly between 10,000 and 12,000 Schindlerjuden alive around the world so Oscar Schindler saved many, many more lives than those who worked for him.
The scene when he tries to kill the worker and the gun jams actually happened, the guy he tried to shoot was a rabbi
In fact he was three people. Since they didnt want to hire 3 separate actors they just combined the three.
Fact. It's in the book.
"I knew the people who worked for me. When you know people, you have to behave toward them like human beings."
- Oskar Schindler
This is not a quote from the movie. It is a quote from the man himself.
Good afternoon, my name is Otama. I am a Wilderness Explorer in Tribe 54, Sweat Lodge 12 , are you in any need of assistance today sir?
@@handmethatpochitussy sorry. Didn’t have enough balloons to get my place off the ground.
"What inspired Stephen Spielberg to make this movie".
Stephen is Jewish. His family were victims of the holocaust and he felt compelled to tell this story. The story of Schindler's list is real.
In addition to not taking a salary for this film, Spielberg also started the USC Shoah Foundation, which recorded as many testimonies from Holocaust survivors as possible so that they would not be forgotten.
"I wasn't taught this in school."
There's so much. So many things we should know, so we never do them again.
I taught my kids history because they don’t teach it in school anymore. They did reports on the Holocaust n the teachers should have been embarrassed because they asked my kids so many questions ( they knew so little) Their reports were done with presentations in old suitcases .
Parents have to take part in their kids education because our public schools are awful !!!!
@@loridiaz9601 Yea, since my sister is homeschooling and is crap at history, I'm gonna have to teach my nieces and nephews this stuff. They are gonna be shookith!
I Knew About The Holocaust.... I Only Knew Like 10%, I Forgot Exactly When I Said They Didn't Teach Me This But I Am Sure I Was Talking About Oskar Schindler...
@@HelloMellowXVI I think you were referring to him as well. I know I didn't learn about him in school. There is a part of me that thinks it makes sense you wouldn't learn the gritty details in school because it so horrific. It's hard for me, an adult, to process. But we gotta know what it looks like so we can spot the signs of it coming around again. Some might say that the structure of our learning has such gaps by design. It is a cynical position, but the older I get, the more I learn on my own, the more patterns I see. The most I can do is impart this knowledge to my son, and encourage others to do the same.
You are very kind and considerate to apologise to anyone you may offend. But not knowing isn't a crime. You are doing exactly the right thing educating yourself about these difficult topics. It was brave of you to post openly your reactions where you are upset, as it invites assholes to criticise, but these are the moments I love that you shared. It shows you have compassion and empathy. I rate you highly my dude, keep doing your thing. I'm subscribed.
There was a camp survivor on set who saw the actor playing Aemon Goth, and she had a panic attach because he portrayed him so well. The actor sat down and talked her through it by reminding her that he was gone, and would never hurt anyone else evre again.
It’s said that those stones placed in the movie are still here to this day. Steven didn’t make you watch the movie, he made you feel it. Thanks for the great reaction!
That's what Jewish people put on graves instead of flowers.
The actor playing Amon Goth was so good that when some of the victims who were working on advisory roles for the film were shaken. He got the body language, speech, and everything so close.
Ralph Fiennes, arguably one of my favorite actors, because of this movie. He embodied evil like no one ever has. Insane.
When Goth fixes his hair and hails the big "H" just before his hanging, blows my mind...
Had I known he was Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter series, I would have watched everyone!
worst part is he downplayed it The real Amon Goth makes this one look tame.
@@nolifealan9746 yes that is because if he did play everything to part, the film wouldn’t have been able to release. Amon Göth was an evil, evil man. No one could have been able to bear watching it. It wouldn’t have been allowed.
He’s a phenomenal actor. He even said it was tough playing Goeth
My history teacher let us watch this in history when i was 15/16 during that module....i remember it was the first time i heard a whole classroom quiet for 3 lessons! 😢 i knew about it because my Dad is a history enthusiast, especially wars, he said to me the most important thing in my life is to read! Read anything and everything you can about anything! ❤ thats how you come to know and appreciate and learn xx
The "I could have done more" scene never fails to make me cry.
Me, crying, while watching another man crying over this absolute heartbreak of a movie. You don't know me/I don't know you, but I hope all is well with you and your family.
I'm German and my grandfather survived a concentration camp, so I grew up with the history. There's no need to apologize for not knowing more about it. Your video was so open minded and respectful, and like you said: you're still young. You took time to educate yourself after seeing the movie. I'm a white German chick, there are tons of things I don't know about Black American history. The best we can do is stay open minded and be ready to listen and learn.
I think researching is the way to do (that's why internet is such a fantastic tool), but testimonies of survivors aside, I wouldn't advise anyone to "listen" people to learn about any historical event because there's always the risk of strong bias. Trusting people too much especially if it's about something they have strong opinions on, is recipe for disaster. I'm not talking about you in particular but I noticed that for a lot of people being openminded is often mistaken for being gullible. Trust academic research and sources, even if it's just a summary of it.
@@xenotypos Listening to the survivors is always the right thing to do.
@@xenotypos your attitude is correct when we're talking about something like ""race scientists"" who use ""science"" to determine people inferior or climate change deniers, not well-documented genocide.
@@bee4590 You're beside the point. Read again, why do you assume the "well-documented" part is what I was refering to if I specifically said "Trust academic research and sources" ?
@@xenotypos There is bias in everything my friend, science and historical documents just like to feign objectivity.
Oscar was a true man with a heart of gold and a true hero. He didn’t need a mask or cape.
"I could have gotten one more person. And I didn't"
Tears.every.single.time!
Oskar Schindler didn’t start out as a saint, but he ended up being one anyway.
To answer your question about Schindler threatening to send the German soldiers to southern Russia. Hitler fought on two fronts. While he fought western Europe, he also invaded Russia. (You can't fight a two-front war.) A Russian winter in summer clothes was a bad deal, and most German soldiers who were trapped deep in Russia froze to death. By the millions. They had no supplies, gasoline, food, or clothes.
Don't beat yourself up. There are some amazing resources out there on WW2 that aren't laborious reads.
I thought that this threat is about fighting on the frontline. Remember, while Poland was captured and the Nazis there only had to do easy tasks, there was a full-scale war in USSR, and by the way, the southern part of German army in Russia was the one that was attacking Stalingrad. So yeah, it would not be the most pleasant experience for people who are mostly responsible for paperwork
you are not quite right.
Schindler threatened the German soldiers to send them to the south of Russia, because at that time the battle for Stalingrad was taking place - one of the bloodiest battles in human history, which is why Shinder said "southern Russia" and not just "Russia", because Stalingrad is in the south ..
In some parts of the Wehrmacht, the life expectancy of soldiers was on average 24 hours, during these 24 hours someone or something will kill you.
It's kinda scary to think how much more successful Hitler could've actually been in winning had he put all of the effort into fighting the allied front instead of also being in Russia. Especially considering they were on good terms at the beginning of the war before his surprise attack on them.
@@erin-shhmerin3704 In Mein Kampf Hitler made it perfectly clear he would invade Russia if he ever came into power. The book was published in 1922, but few people read it, even after Hitler did rise to power. Hardly any Germans even bothered reading Mein Kampf, because it was such a dull, boring screed. If people had read the book they wouldn't have let Hitler take control of the country. Invading Russia was a no-win proposition, and everyone knew it.
The Soviets destroyed 80% of German military, being deployed to the eastern front was almost a death sentence
My elementary school in Sweden organized for the 8th graders to watch this film in the cinema every year on international holocaust remembrance day. A holocaust survivor also came to speak and he sat with us in our classroom. His name was Benny Grünfeld. I will never forget that experience, and I will teach my children everything I know. What happened should never be forgotten.
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Same, we also watched this movie in class and also had a survivor come talk about how he hid in the concentration camps to survive
@@valandhol9four680 Wow you were so lucky yo meet them❤
@@ilincabogza Sad we didnt record what he said. I was 14, dont remember many details :(
I'm from Oklahoma and we did the same thing! I even visited the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC later that year.
A truly devastating film, the effect never fades. Your reaction was so genuine and full of empathy, the best I have seen. Well done bud, I think it maybe changed you the way it changed me.
Back in 1955 my dad was in Germany as part of his national service,he was 18. This was only 10yrs afer the wars end! One of the places the army took them as an army education exercise was Bergen Belsen. This was only one of the many concentration camps, they went in the camp as chatty 18yr old lads ,they came out as quiet men!! The bit that he remembers the most to this day ,he's now 85,is one building that was left as it was found at the liberation. Three rooms were sealed with glass so you could see the 40,000 pairs of spectacles, shoes and false teeth!!! Total respect to your viewing of this film! I'm 55 and it gets me every time I've seen it!
I went through an exhibit on the Holocaust at the Imperial War Museum in London. They ask for no one to take pictures and for you to be silent and respectful. I went from happy and enjoying my day to very very somber.
"They say those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it." It is our duty as human beings is to make sure this doesn't happen to any group ever again
@Carl Le Pauvre yes in china with the muslims for there organs
usa with mexicans, they are in cages also mexicans been treaded bad for many years now, look up 1914 or 1915 cant remember bath riots
@@7svn.I'm not saying those events didn't happen and they need to be address however in china right now they have actual concentration camps holding muslim minorities.
What's sick is during the Holocaust remembrance week at my university, my prof was telling the class the Holocaust never happened, and instead had us focus on the Rwandan genocide.
The people who try to deny the Holocaust ever happened are the people who want history to repeat itself, only with a different outcome.
And yet it has and is. But it's still important to know, you are right.
This was a privilege to watch, thank you for reacting as raw as you did. History can be brutal. You learned about one of the darkest and most important events in human history.
Truly human reaction. Anyone who doesnt cry in the ending of Schindlers List, I cant trust em
Interesting thing about the incredible music, John Williams actually went to Spielberg and said "Steve I can't do the score for this movie, I'm not good enough." Spielberg replied "I know, but you're the best alive, so you'll do it"
Slight correction that changes the meaning of the quote: Williams said that he wasn't good enough to write the score, there were better composers to choose. Spielberg responded, "I know, but they're all dead." I believe in addition to the gracious (and deserved) compliment to Williams, Spielberg was implying that the only other people who could have done justice to the score were Jewish musicians, specifically the ones who had suffered through this--except they never made it out of Poland/Germany/Austria.
(As it happens, Leonard Bernstein died in 1990, which is likely when the film was in production. He probably wouldn't have been considered since Spielberg and Williams are so simpatico, but IMHO if for whatever reason Williams couldn't have done the score, Bernstein would've been a fantastic choice. I do wonder what kind of score he'd've written. Gorgeous, no doubt. But Williams's music here is without equal in evoking painful grief of those lost, and bittersweet celebration of those whom Schindler helped to survive.)
The actor who played the camp commander Amon Göth not only did a great job, he also looked like the real Amon Göth. He looked so much like the real Amon Göth that his mere sight gave real life survivors of the events a full blown mental breakdown.
Mila Pfeffenberg specifically
Ralph Fiennes played him. Amazing actor.
They don't teach it in school anymore because they are trying to hide history. Sound familiar?
It was mandatory for us to watch this movie in 12th grade, but they stopped it because parents complained.
It's disturbing to me how little my grandkids and their friends know about history or geography. I'm paraphrasing but the saying goes ppl who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
I think they do teach it but people are so focused on other things right now and often how well you retain information is just by how that history is taught
We were forced to watch this in 8th grade and then write papers about it. Still done to this day
The fact that Cancel Culture is trying to hide the harsh history is already disturbing as hell. As a History Major, it outright infuriates and disgusts me that people out there think this shouldn’t be taught.
@@SnowyWarrior where ? What country if U.S. what school district ?
I remember watching this in high school. I'm grateful for my English teacher for exposing us to this part of history which was not even 100 years ago. Your genuine response/reaction is exactly how we should be--indignant of the atrocities of the Holocaust, especially so we will not be doomed to repeat it due to our lack of ignorance. I appreciate you for displaying honest emotions and vulnerability.
Ive watched the scene where the Schindler Jews place the stones on his grave a hundred times, and I’ve openly weeped every time. It’s the most powerful cinematic scene I’ve ever witnessed.
The happiness of the women when they get in the shower and is water that came through the pipes..... goddamn. That was tense.
That shit broke me because i expected it
When I was a young nurse, around early nineties, one of my favorite patients was an elderly lady named Rose…I’m leaving her last name anonymous. She told me the most awful story. She was a twin and she and her sister had experiments done on them by the evil Dr. Mengele. Her sister didn’t survive and she was so sick from what he did that they placed her in hospital to get better so he could continue his experiment. While in hospital they heard the Americans would soon be there to liberate the camp. Orders were to kill everyone in the hospital. She said a kindly German nurse took pity on her and had her hide in the supply closet behind stacks of sheets and that is how she survived. I remember she said not all the German people were evil. She felt that many were terrified and trapped in the horror also. I never forgot her and never forgot her trauma or that she still had faith in the goodness of people.
All these truly incredible stories of survivors.. Because everybody who didn't have some incredible thing happen did not survive. It's gutwrenching to say the least.
A bit of trivia for you. While Spielberg was in the casting phase of this movie, he and his wife and mother went to see a play that Liam was in, his mother leaned over and whispered in his ear “there’s your Schindler”.
This DID happen just as it is potrayed--in fact, it was MUCH MUCH worse. sad. just sad.
@Nastasiya Not exactly.
@@oliverhughes610 uhm yea exactly gotta keep mind in the movie they merely skim the surface of the camps and other atrocities if they went by the book and what actually happened the movie wouldn't exist or you referring to things that characters did? cant really say or not say what they did unless you were there
@@eibbor171 One absolutely can say what characters did or did not do, because there is a tremendous amount of evidence and records to point to it. We know exactly which characters are real and which ones are fictitious, who was where at what point, and who did what at what point. I made a larger comment on its own but I will copy/paste it here for your benefit:
True story is a stretch.
It's important to note that this film is based on a book, which is itself a work of fiction based on true events. There are a number of important things the book/film invent for drama and storytelling purposes, or skip over to present characters in a certain way.
Schindler did not compile the list himself (hence the book being called Schindler's Ark). That task fell to a clerk named Marcel Goldberg. He compiled several lists over several months, with no real numerical boundary set by Buscher, and engaged in corruption as to who went on them. Schindler himself openly admitted that he had nothing to do with it.
The 'girl in the red dress' scene is fiction. Schindler and his wife knew of the upcoming liquidation of the ghetto and were nowhere near the hill to watch it take place.
Stern, Ben Kingsley's character, did not exist. His character is a composite of several real people. The idea that Schindler collapsed into his arms crying about not having done more is laughable - he was proud of what he had accomplished and said as much in a speech earlier that day.
Schindler was a liar, a drunk, a cheat, an agent of the German Abwehr (military intelligence) - and a hero. The flaws in his character that the film totally neglects in fact serve to make his increasing determination to help people more remarkable. But the manner in which he helped people and the way in which his attitude is depicted in this film is heavily, heavily dramatised.
As for Amon Göth? On 13 September 1944, Göth was relieved of his position and charged by the SS with theft of Jewish property (which belonged to the state, according to Nazi regulations), failure to provide adequate food to the prisoners under his charge, violation of concentration camp regulations regarding the treatment and punishment of prisoners, and allowing unauthorised access to camp personnel records by prisoners and non-commissioned officers. He was awaiting trial in Austria but the rapidly approaching defeat meant that the charges were dropped and he was condemned to a mental institution. He would be arrested there by the US military at the end of the war in Europe, and re-imprisoned at Dachau, until he was properly identified. He was tried in Poland in 1946 and executed by hanging. Had the SS tried him, he would very likely have been shot.
"he who saves the life of one man saves the world entire". One of my favourite quotes in any film
But it’s also from the Talmud.
@Prateek Misra We are all connected by love. The answer is right in front of us.
@Prateek Misra What?
It also appears in the quran.
@Positive Vibes It is not bs. You want to be loved like every human being does. And it is exactly this that connects people. You can argue all day against it. Be bitter and hateful or call what i write bullshit or how i and others are delusional for that statement. But like a torpedo that is already in the water and will hit 100% my words will reach you one day. Not today, not tomorrow but one day for sure.
You like everyone else want to be loved by someone and when that day happens my words will come true and reach you.
Now write your cringy answer about how fucked up the world is. I still have already won as love always finds a way :)
The beginning scene where Schindler is making friends with Nazi officers is where he gets his power from he's really just a German civilian but with friends in high places he might as well be an officer
Edit: Spielberg decided to make the film because of the amount of anti-semitism and holocaust denial that was flaring up. It's based on a book called Schindler's Ark that was based on true events