I agree, he deserved it. But it doesn't surprise me, he didn't get it based on who he was portraying. Goeth was even more savage in real life than the way he was portrayed in the film. My guess is Spielberg had to draw the line so as not to turn the audience away.
Guys, c'mon, in the beginning of the movie they told you the movie takes place in Nazi occupied Poland. Yes the Nazis were German, but they invaded Poland.
@@cliffwheeler7357 like a lot of people they may fear history because it was taught to them wrong. They seem like smart, compassionate people who I would enjoy conversing with - they just didn't know history that well.
Removing any sugar coating? Uhhhh.......not quite. The people, places & events portrayed here were MUCH worse. It was intentionally toned down in order to make it actually watchable. Amon Goeth, for example, was even more monstrous than portrayed here.
Yes. They took it easy. No reference to medical experimentation and vivisection. Nothing of the camp brothels, staffed by Jewish women. Officers' brothels with the prettiest. Enlisted brothels. Even prisoner brothels because there was a hierarchy among prisoners, according to their uses, and it was a reward for those who cooperated. And other brothels staffed with emasculated boys.
A lot of sugarcoating. If it wasn't the case, the average person's(men and women) weight in the movie would be 30kg(70lb) That would be horrendous for viewers.
@@BintyMcFrazzlesour education system, particularly history, is broken. They won't be up front and fully honest with us about anything, in our own history or world history. I'm my experience, high school education about the Holocaust pretty much lasted a day or two and left it at "Hitler blamed the Jews for all of Germany's problems and wanted to wipe them all out in concentration camps." I was never taught about the difference between labor camps and death camps, about the horrific medical experiments, and many people I know think that the 6 million Jews killed was the extent of the genocide (they don't realize there were 4 million other people killed for other reasons). But what do you expect from a country that won't even be up front and honest about our OWN history of slavery and indigenous genocide? It's sickening, honestly
When Schindler was arguing about his factory being a "haven" it wasn't about reputation. To harbor a Jew was punished by death and often your family's lives as well.
I had a very intimate relationship with my grandma. Then when I was about 12 years old, in Germany, I started to be educated on it. And at some point you start asking questions. (How can a person you love so much, is so dear to you was ok with something like that? Mental dissonance) So I asked my grandmother: How could this happen? How could you/ we the people let this happen? And she answered: it didn't happen overnight. It took years. We were busy with our lives. We heard rumours. Neighbors disappeared. Maybe it was also the way, we were brought up. You din't contradict superiors. Maybe I just didn't have the strength/courage. Because, when you live in a dictatorial country you subconsciously know, what will happen to you as well, when you step out of line. They tell you. They show it to you by arresting a neighbor. This will also happen to you. Which at some point perked the question to me: "What would you have done?" I used to be quite quick to answer it, but as I get older, with having kids, responsibilities, still learning about those 12 years of horror, I'm honest to say, I don’t know. I try not to judge too fast or do it careful. Watching this movie, I always feel deeply ashamed. I mean how can you not be ashamed? History here is being taught quite differently. The focus on historical events (more than 2000 years) has a more down to earth/ realistic sense. Heroic pictures are not part of it.
As an American, I'm ashamed that the US government turned away a ship full of 900 Jewish refugees during that time. They were sent back to Europe where most of not all were captured by the Germans.😢
If your grandma spoke up at the time, then indeed you would not feel shame, because you likely would not exist. Every decision has positives and negatives, your grandma had to bear such heavy shame her whole life simply for choosing to protect her family over someone else's. You personally have nothing to be ashamed of and it's interesting to think that, if she had spoken up, you would never have written this comment and I would never have replied!
This is the lesson. And why we all need to remember so that we stay aware as we live our lives today. It happens little by little. A small freedom taken away in the name of safety until you are herded away
My husband said liams acting wasnt believable in that part. He still cried though. 🙄 makes no sense. Hes the ONLY ONE who had ever said that about liams acting in this movie. I lost some respect for him after that.
They actually had to tone down Amon Goeth character as he was truly much more monstrous than dipicted in this. He even disgusted other nazis . Ralph Fiennes who played Goeth played him so well it caused panic attacks in some of the Schindler Jews on set so Ralph Fiennes took time to comfort them in between takes. His performance and mannerisms are so much like him when you watch footage of Goeth and Fiennes iike a mirror image of him its very freaky how well he played him. I dont know if anyone told you that this movie was made by speilberg as his final exan to graduate from film school after a 30 year hiatus ( as off making blockbuster movies) . His professor gave him an A minus for this masterpiece..
Don’t forget: this IS real History and Goeth was actually so much worse that you couldn’t play it like that. Spielberg said: no one would have believed that and thought he would dramatize it for the film
The Schindler Juden at the end always gets to me. Generations were murdered, but Oskar Schindler saved MANY generations. This darkest period of humankind must always be remembered. Zei gezunt.
You guys should watch The Pianist (2002) directed by Roman Polanski. He was a Jewish boy when the Nazis invaded Poland, so he had first-hand experience of what it was like to live through this horror. So he incorporated what he did to survive into the film. It won several awards including a couple Oscars.
This is going all the way to Hebrew people commanded by God to mark their doors so he could Passover their houses... In Jewish religion the Mezuza is a symble of God's protection of our homes.
I’ve seen dozens of Schindler’s List reactions and this girl absolutely obliterated the record for “longest time until first cry.” I don’t know whether to be impressed or concerned.
It's not actually a documentary; it's a fictionalized account of real events based on the stories of real people. It's set in Poland, not Germany. Thomas Keneally wrote the book, which was called "Schindler's Ark," based on stories heard from survivors, but he wrote it as a novel. The screenplay is closer to reality, but Spielberg actually had to tone down the atrocities of Amon Goeth and the Nazis, because he was afraid the movie would become completely unwatchable. Some of the real survivors worked as consultants on set; when the real Mila Pfefferberg saw Ralph Fiennes dressed as Goeth, she started shaking violently. Spielberg took no salary and no cut from the profits from this movie. Not an excuse, but a partial explanation for some of what the Nazis did, and why the German people put up with it - nearly 80% of the German population and 100% of the German military were addicted to crystal meth - it was put in soldiers' mess kits. Hitler himself was so addicted to drugs (several different ones) that he couldn't get out of bed in the morning unless and until his personal physician shot cocaine directly into his veins. They weren't all psychopaths or sociopaths, but they WERE all drug-addled and judgment impaired, as well as poisoned/brain-washed by ideology/propaganda. Euros didn't exist in 1943. A thaler was a Polish coin. Germany used Reichsmarks. When Schindler was talking with the black market guys in the church, he wasn't looking for product to barter. He was legitimately trying to buy a quality shirt. He wanted to look affluent, and while he had some cash, he didn't actually have a lot of money, which is why he needed the Jewish investors' money. They say, "Fair would be a percentage in the company," but they literally could not own companies. Their cash was worthless in their hands, because they could not legally use it. They might as well give it to Schindler, who could. Then he gave them the product made by the company he used their money to buy to pay them back, and they can use the products as something to barter with for things they actually need (at least for awhile; once the work camp was opened, they couldn't any more). When the Jews were entering the ghetto, they weren't walking without a destination - they had assigned living spaces that they had to move to, after being pushed out of their homes. Auschwitz was operating by that point in time, if you didn't get a Blauschien, you were sent to the death camp. Their definition of an "essential worker" is literally the opposite of the way the term was used in the US during the COVID pandemic. There, it was used to denote people who could work and therefore were not sent off to be killed. Here, it was used to denote people who were working in jobs that were so essential that they had to risk their health to keep the country going. Please do not confuse the two! The ghetto was an intermediary stop-gap while they built the Krakow work camp, the Krakow work camp was a stop-gap to get work out of the Jews until room could be made to move them to Auschwitz; even at Auschwitz, people worked until they couldn't - often literally until they dropped. Schindler tells Stern that he's a German, but he's actually from Czechoslovakia; the excuse Hitler gave for invading Czechoslovakia was that many "ethnic Germans" (like Schindler) lived there, but there's no such thing as an "ethnic German" = German isn't an ethnicity, just a nationality. Similarly, Jewish isn't a racial characteristic; Judaism is a religion. Cognac is pronounced "cone-yack". Goeth is pronounced "Gert." At the start, Schindler was just focused on being successful. Stern was the one trying to save people. Only later did Schindler come around to the view that what the Nazis were doing was wrong, regardless of whether or not it impacted him and his business. He is *very* self-entitled, as demonstrated in his conversation with his wife when she came to visit him. He fully intended to be a war profiteer. When the woman comes and asks Schindler to save her parents, he confronts Stern about the danger, but by then he already knows it's a horrible situation. She might be pretending to be German, or Polish, or just not Jewish, it's not clear. The train that Stern was in, you said they were being treated like animals, but it's actually worse. People were so packed into the cars they couldn't sit; if their legs gave out, they couldn't fall. The cars are literally called "cattle cars" but if the railroad was actually moving cattle, they'd only put 6 animals per car at most. The little girl in the red coat is in red because Schindler is focused on her and so are we - her coat turns grey after she hides because he can no longer see her, so it's back to black and white. Her jacket is red again at the end so you know that he sees her in the cart and recognizes her. I think you really overthought that one! LOL Goeth didn't so much realize that Schindler was manipulating him, as that he couldn't pardon himself. Unable to pardon himself, he decided not to pardon anyone else, either. He was very conflicted about Helen, yes. He wanted to, but couldn't, love her. He was a true psychopath. In the real Auschwitz, the women's hair would have been completely shaved to a bald scalp. In addition to being terrified of disease-carrying lice being able to infest the camp and get on the guards by association, the Nazis used the hair to make yarn for socks for their navy. They also would have been tattooed with their number on their forearm, it wouldn't have just been on their star pinned to their clothes. One thing they didn't show was that in Auschwitz by the time the Schindler women were sent there they were so far behind on burning corpses that the camp guards were stacking them around buildings as insulation against the cold. The camp started out with one crematorium oven for burning bodies to ash, but they added several gas chambers, and people were dying from illness and starvation as well, so they had to add six more ovens, but those were blown up in the last few months of the war, and may have already been blown up before the women arrived at the camp in reality. At any rate, right up until the end of the war, there were bodies almost everywhere, and there would have certainly been corpses stacked up around the buildings the women saw/were in. Corpses were also skinned and the fat was rendered into soap. The skin was used to make lamp shades; for a while during the war, it was considered extremely fashionable in Berlin to have a lamp with such a shade, better if you got one that had the tattooed number from the forearm. The rest is what got burned. You can see an historic picture of stacked bodies behind the oven in the Birkenau camp here: collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa1070095 - it was the same in Auschwitz. Schindler and his wife were Catholic. That was a Catholic church that he found her in, not a synagogue. He didn't build a synagogue for the Jewish workers, he just allowed the rabbi to use his office on Friday evenings and Saturday mornings for services. Schindler saved more Jews from the death camps than literally anyone else. The movie says he saved 1100 people, but it was actually just over 1200. The number of descendants of the Schindler Jews now is somewhere above 8,500. (Sir Nicholas Winston is next, with 669 Jewish children that he was able to save by getting them out of Germany and German-occupied countries.) The movie notes that there were fewer than 4,000 Jewish people in Poland at the time of filming; it has now increased to somewhere between 10,000-20,000. Many people in Poland were raised as Christians because their grandparents or parents survived the war by passing as Christians or getting married to Christians (converting on their own wasn't enough) and didn't know or didn't account for themselves as Jewish or being descended from Jewish families, until the last few years. As more people find out, the Jewish community in Poland is welcoming them into their lives. Don't be ashamed of the tears. If you don't tear up at some point watching this movie, you're not human. You talked about the Japanese survivors of the nuclear bombs, but didn't mention the American citizens of Japanese descent who were put into internment camps here in the US during WWII. We were fighting against Germany and Italy at the same time, but didn't put German-Americans or Italian-Americans in camps. It was a clearly racist move.
I liked your answer a lot. One remark though, there is at least one man who saved more Jews than Schindler, and probably there are others as well. Not that it's a competition, but his story is not as well known since he doesn't have such a great movie in his honour. Yad Vashem recognized him as well as Righteous among nations. His name was Ángel Sanz Briz, he was a young spanish diplomat working in Budapest in 1944. Spain was a neutral country during WWII but Franco's regime was in good relation with Hitler's Germany. So a spanish passport could save you from death if you were a jew in Hungary. Sanz Briz found a loop hole in an old spanish law (which was actually expired, but Nazis didn't know that) to give spanish citizenship to descendants of sephardic Jews dating back to the expulsion of jews from Spain in 1492. He was given permission to give this citizenship to 200 people, but twisting his orders he made each document valid for a whole family. And then he started giving letters to each document: 1a, 1b, 1c...so that the number didn't reach 200. In total he saved 5200 hungarian jews out of whom only 200 were sepharadic jews. He also used his own money to lodge, protect and feed these people in houses he rented right beside the spanish embassy. Even when he had to flee the country to avoid being killed by the soviet troops he managed to protect these jew families with the hungarian people working at the embassy. He couldn't accept the Righteous among the Nations medal in 1966 because Franco didn't allowed him to, he continued being a diplomat. Eventually in 1989 at the israeli embassy in Spain his widow could at last receive the honors from Yad Vashem and receive the medal on behalf of his late husband.
@@asdzt123 Consul Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a portuguese who was a consul in France, did somethign similar. He went against the orders of his government, and issued visas to people fleeing nazi germany. In the end, he gave around 30.000 visas, including about 10.000 visas to jews.
Omg, as a historian, a lot of information you wrote is absolute bullshit. Especially the soap and lampshade thing AGAIN. as for this 'Schindler saved more Jews from the death camps than literally anyone else' Irena Sendler saved 2,500.
Actually, what the person was, removing from the side of the door was a mazuzah , a little container that holds a rolled up, scroll with a verse from the Torah
Germany didn’t begin using the Euro until 2002. During the 1940’s, the basic amount was the Reichsmark and after the war was named the Deutsche Mark. A taler was a name for an ancient Germanic silver coin.
Yeah, that was funny. Ancient history to the young is 15-20 years back. I was waiting for them the say "Why didn't he just text the train station to have them reroute the train back to Schindler's location."
I am not surprised about their ignorance, it's the fault of the US school system. The average US american got absolutely no clue about history, geography or anything what's happening outside their bubble. It's frustrating!
Agree im 62, i learnt about this age 12, in the uk where I am from my dad let me watch it on a tv award winning documentary on ITV called World at War 1973. These days they just don't seem to know till they see these films.
@@gemini802from UK too. Aged 36. Obv we covered holocaust in school and knew it was horrendous but not really in all that much detail or understanding. Though I always felt a little more understanding than my peers as I'm Spanish 'gitano' (literally gypsy, but part Roma) and so was hyper aware of being a foreigner that the country could just randomly turn against. But as an adult I really dove into teaching myself more about it. WW2 documentaries and the real world footage of the liberation of the camps. That's a real eye opener that everyone should watch! It's horrible. It's really hard to watch. But they actually lived through it and I feel like you owe it to them to put yourself through that to properly understand
Him letting them celebrate the shabbath was not giving them back their faith (dont think they ever lost it even during those gruesome times) it was humanizing them again as they were not treated even as human beings.
Hey Gabriella and Caleb, I often put myself back in my mind as a child. When we face cruelity and lack of compassion, someone is often there to protect us. -------- I remember hoping someone would protect me if my parents were not around. And an adult would always step up.------- In many parts of Shindler's List we see the fear of facing the hate of your persecutor, without a shield to protect you. This is unthinkable and frightening to the bone.------- What a cruel world this can be.
When I lived in New York, our neighbors were survivors. They would speak to my wife and I about the horrors they experienced. They did say that this movie came close to the reality. It is extremely difficult to watch. But it is incumbent upon us to say never again and to always remember. We are tasked with preventing another holocaust. Julie/Jessica
"The girl was portrayed by Oliwia Dąbrowska, three years old at the time of filming. Spielberg asked Dąbrowska not to watch the film until she was eighteen, but she watched it when she was eleven, and says she was "horrified".[60] Upon seeing the film again as an adult, she was proud of the role she played." - got this from the wiki. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schindler%27s_List
the real Goeth was even more psycho than shown in the movie. it's worth looking him up. in 1944 for example, he was thrown out by the nazis because he was going to far even by their standards
Schindler was a businessman a bombastic personality. German Jews lived in Germany lived and worked and had businesses with racism mixed in. Then the storm of horror took over. Schindler began to be affected by what he was seeing and he wanted to do something about it.
Naja. Nicht jeder kann so wie ihr mit allem Wissen der Welt geboren sein. Solche Aussagen wie eure erinnern mich doch sehr an die "Herrenrasse". Weiß alles, kann alles, muss nichts lernen, arrogant wie Hund.
@@geneticjen9312 People like you are seriously need to stfu sometimes. I’m just being real. If you’re in a first world country and don’t know about these kinds of things that are very basic and well known, you need to be called out. Stop making excuses and saying “it’s ok” “she’s fine” foh with that bs
Thank you for bearing witness and for your thoughtful reaction. A note on the grave site at the end - it’s Jewish tradition to place a rock on the tombstone to indicate you were there. More permanent and humble than flowers. Another interesting movie about this era is Life is Beautiful. Amazing story about what a parent will do to protect their child.
Excellent reaction, you're exactly right, this is the type of movie that one has to feel - no words can fully convey adequately feelings into words.. But to answer one question at 1:09:05 it's not a synagogue, its a Catholic church (that's how they used to look back in the day), as Schindler walks up to the pew and just before whispering to his wife, we can hear the priest softly chanting in Latin the "Our Father" (Pater Noster).. They were Catholics, both he and his wife (he did the sign of the cross when he asked to do 3 minutes of silence after announcing the end of the war to the workers and notice the cross on his grave stone).. One more interesting thing to notice, earlier in the film when we saw all the guys talking about business inside a house of worship -- it was at a Catholic church too, this is where Jews would go, sit in the back and conduct business in peace -- notice before going to the church, (right infront of a store) one of them (the actor who plays Leopold Pfefferberg), quietly takes off his arm band with the star of david..and in the next scene when we see him again, he's in the church with the others (who aren't wearing the star of david either) doing business in the back (you can also hear the priest chanting softly in the background in Latin here too). Excellent raw reaction from the both of you to such a heavy and heartbreaking movie..
@@cliffwheeler7357then why did you watch it other than to leave hateful comments about the couple who is trying to learn? I can’t help but think that is the only reason you watched
"it's just the poor part of town" or "oh look, this family is Jewish"... No shit, Sherlock. That was the point of the Ghetto, to have all the Jews in one place. It was literally explained in writing on the screen earlier in the movie...
@@Luthwen1301 Topic goes over her head? She's listening, she's engaging, she's commenting, she's reacting. She's clearly taken it in and understood the film. What topic doesn't she get?
@@geneticjen9312she thought Schindler's wife was Jewish... that's enough to assume she either wasn't paying attention or just has really bad listening and critical thinking skills. And that's all I'm going to say about this. Watching their daft reaction really made me angry at how utterly uninformed people can be. She thought they had the Euro during WW2 ffs!
@@Luthwen1301I think you and some other commenters are incredibly harsh on this couple in your judgment. Not everyone has the privilege or ability to learn history at the level you are expecting of them. It also comes across as elitist. They are clearly interested in learning and making themselves vulnerable to you and everyone watching this and are willing to accept feedback. I think it’s disturbing that you are like this. This is coming from the daughter of a published WW2 historian, teacher, and someone of Jewish heritage.
@@hannahbeanies8855 and I think it's disturbing to not only know absolutely nothing about the Holocaust but then also refuse to listen and pay attention during the movie on such an important topic. And this is coming from a German Jew, so don't talk to me about being elitist. They decided to post this on the internet, so they have to take the criticism that comes with doing so.
While making this movie, Spielberg wouldn't even communicate with the actors playing the Einsatzgruppen. These were actors of the German theater playing these parts. Spielberg would give them direction but he wouldn't make small talk with them as he couldn't get past the Schutzstaffel uniforms. That is until a beautiful thing happened very early in production. A Passover Seder was held at the hotel the cast and crew were staying. Spielberg had all the Jewish actors sitting around at a table, then all the German actors walked in wearing yarmulkes and participated in the rituals of the Passover Seder and Spielberg was moved to tears.
15:23 Thaler is a silver coin that was worth 3 Reichsmarks. The Reichsmark, in turn, is the currency in Germany between 1924 and 1948. Reichsmark is also a so-called gold core currency. The €URO was first introduced in January 2002.
I have been in 3 Concentration Camps on School Field Trips. Never have places spread such a gloomy, depressive, sad and hopeless mood for me. Believe me, this movie is not sugarcoating at all. In reality, it's toned down. This is tame. They completely dehumanized the Jews and treated them in unbelievable, gruesome and disgusting ways no one ever wants to encounter.
The train cars are 40 & 8 cars. Comfortably fitting 40 men or 8 horses. In reality they were often filled with 100-150 people. So full that the dead stayed standing until the car was emptied.
Good, solid reaction overall, to a masterpiece. Too bad you skipped the "this list is absolute good" scene, odd editing choice, since it's one of the most iconic moments of the film.
this movie messed me up quite bad. I can’t even watch any more war films because of how badly this movie affected me. Such an amazing film nonetheless and one of the greatest movies of all time
@@mugiwara7347 I tried watching the pianist a week after finishing this movie. I was so emotionally affected by Schindlers List I couldn’t even gather the courage to finish it, but I’m sure that the pianist is an absolutely heartbreaking movie to watch.
I'm like 4 mins into your reaction and already annoyed that you'd rather take notes than actually watch the movie and read the description they put up on the screen!!!!! Watch the damn movie!!!
The dance at the beginning was of course a tango. "Taler" used to be a currency, and the name "Dollar" is derived from it. You need to understand that Schindler had to hide what he was actually doing, the Nazis would have killed him otherwise, and he would have saved nobody. He wasn't the only one to hire workers from this camp, there was also Julius Madritsch who can be seen in one scene.
Is it so hard to pick up a few books and do research ? WWII and then around the same time having to fight Japan. Then there also is a slew of Nazis escaping and finding refuge in South America.
@@cliffwheeler7357 yes and how about there disdain for executing some German soldiers "doing similar crimes that the Germans did". This is what happens with UA-cam. Everyone becomes an author, journalist, historian it's time to pretend.
For some people, yes it is. And it is very judgmental to condemn this couple for being ignorant when they know they are and want to learn. Hence this watch and reaction.
59:38 that little look that Olek gives of utter terror and sadness stayed with me a long time after I saw this movie for the first time. The disregard the Nazis had for the innocence of children, and the specific targeting of children, was one of the truly more heinous crimes among many they committed.
Northern Germany used a Taler or Thaler (meaning "valley money") as a unit of money from 1690 to 1873 when they switched to the gold Deutschmark. [The "Euro" you mentioned is a very recent invention, created by the E.U. which was an outgrowth of the European Common Market. That's all post-WWII.] There were earlier kinds of Thalers, going back to the days of the Holy Roman Empire. Also, the "Dollar" (a term used in the U.S., Canada, Australia etc.) is a corruption of the term "Thaler." So, "Thaler" could very well show up in old German drinking songs.
And my Grandpa still said "here's a Taler for you" when handing us money in the 90s. Colloquially the term was still used, especially by older generations
The item that the man pryed from the door frame of his home and kissed, was a mezuzah. It is a container for a tiny piece of parchment with a handwritten prayer on it that starts with, "Hear oh Israel, the lord our God, the lord is one." It should be placed on the entrance door frame of a jewish home.
20:16 He's not removing the door-hinge - It's called a "Mezuza", every Jewish house has them on the side of the doors.. It's a cylinder with a sacred prayer written on a scroll inside it. Thanks for your reaction!
Incredibly important film that needs to be seen by all, especialy the generations to come, now more importantly, thank- you guys for sharing this film, it needs to be not forgotten.
37:10 Ghetto is an Italian word. early 17th century: perhaps from Italian getto ‘foundry’ (because the first ghetto was established in 1516 on the site of a foundry in Venice), or from Italian borghetto, diminutive of borgo ‘borough’.
In the book it was told that Amon Goeth had a trial and tried to bring Schindler as a witness, believing he will bail him out. And Schindler came, witnessing as much as he could about Amon's atrocities, ensuring he will be executed.
Caleb and Gabriella, I think you guys eventually got the symbolism of the girl in the red coat. -------- She was meant to represents a similar girl Schindler saw when the Jewish ghettos were being raided and everyone murdered. -------- He saw this little girl walking about in the swell of people and no one took notice of her. --------- No one noticed her, Not the Jewish people running for their lives nor the Germans chasing them. ------- To him, this little girl symbolized the apathy that had descended over the GErman society at the time. Truly heartwrenching and sad.
In your comments after the movie, I hope you weren’t comparing the atomic bombs dropped on Japan to the Holocaust. They couldn’t be more dissimilar. We dropped those bombs to END the war, and as soon as they finally surrendered, we stopped dropping bombs. The Holocaust would have kept on going until the Germans ran out of Jews and others to kill.
We did, but it is important to remember those innocent people who were ultimately sacrificed to end the war. It is not a virtuous thing. Certainly not the holocaust, but we cannot paint it as something good
What makes this movie so special is that the entire cast & crew refused to be paid for making it. Spielberg said in a interview that they all saw taking payment as equal to taking ‘blood money’, instead, everyone pooled together what they earned and founded the USC Shoah Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicating into preserving the accounts of both survivors and victims and provide them for educational purposes. Thanks to this film, there was a drastic spike of education programs in the US dedicating into teaching all generations of what the Holocaust was.
An incredibly sad movie, but it only scratches the surface. Movies and TV shows that targeted the World War II generation during the 50s and 60s, as well as the hunt for Nazis, the capture and execution of Eichmann, and even the occasional Japanese soldier found still hiding in jungles prompted many conversations where survivors and veterans finally started to share their experiences during the war with their Boomer kids. Spielberg did well to show horror up to the limit of most people, but the complete truth would have left very few people watching to the end.
Thank you for taking the time to watch this amazing yet tradgic telling of real events. I watch this movie twice a year and my children watch it to continue to remind me. I hope you watch it again and maybe say a prayer. Thank you and god bless stay safe J.
A film that does an amazing job showing how this all went down from the start to the ghettos to later is called the Pianist. There’s also great ones that show how it was in Italy but it’s much older. If you’re ever interested in seeing more I’ve done many film studies on this topic (also for a different one there’s Hotel Rwanda)
He wasn't taking the door chain. Observant Jews affix a mezuzah to their front doorposts of their homes. A mezuzah is a small case that contains a scroll of parchment inscribed with a prayer. The scroll is handwritten and contains the Shema, a central Hebrew prayer that reminds people of God's presence in their lives.
the "Euro" currency came waaaaaaay after the ww2, around the late 90s!!!! before that germans used "Mark" also the process of forming the EU (European union) started after the war, because of the war!
I appreciate seeing new audiences watching movies like this, for the historical value and because it's a cinema masterpiece. I'm not expecting history degree level comments but I'm quitting the video after the first restaurant scene. Waltz? No, it's a Tango (probably the most famous one) Currency in Poland 1939, dollars? euros? What? Wow new generations! HAHAAHA 😉
At 20:15 what the Jewish man was taking off the door was called a Mezuzah - A small parchment scroll upon which the Hebrew words of the Shema are handwritten by a scribe. Mezuzah scrolls are rolled up and affixed to the doorposts of Jewish homes, designating the home as Jewish and reminding those who live there of their connection to G‑d and their heritage.
Great reaction, and I enjoyed your many comments and observations. I’m an older guy who’s witnessed a few turns of history, being one who paid attention to events from an early age. What I find most sobering is that only 20 years passed between World Wars 1 & 2. And now it’s been almost 80 years since the end of World War 2. While it isn’t pleasant to contemplate for long, there are now more dangerous and numerous issues in the world than existed just prior to either World War. And those matters are far less solvable. Whatever else is said, our future will not be dull or uninteresting.
The guy that has to leave his house isn't taking out a hinge from his door: that's a mezuzah, a metal box that includes a piece of the Torah and is inserted into the frame of the door to seek God's recognition and protection. It's an important religious item for traditional Jewish people, one that marks their houses as the house of a believer.
One advice for the girl.... When movie is going on, then please avoid writing..... It's very irritating and it makes movie less enjoyable as you are focused on writing..... Better pause the movie then write or avoid writing....
Also. To add, the girl in red is representing innocence. These people did nothing wrong but have different beliefs. Its truly heartbreaking. Every soul lost in wars and genocide is just.... heartbreaking.
Thank you for doing this film, I believe every grown up should watch this at least once, just to get a small grasp of what the Holocaust was. It always amazes me that he made just enough money to save them. Thank you again!
This had 12 oscar nominations. It won 7 for best picture, best director for Steven Spielberg, best adapted screenplay, original music, cinematography, editing, and production design, and it was also up for best actor for Liam Neeson, best supporting actor for Ralph Fiennes, makeup, costume design, and sound mixing.
More questions What is the name of the tango from Schindler's List? Por una cabeza (Spanish: 'around the head [of a horse]') is a popular tango by Carlos Gardel (music) and Alfredo Le Pera (lyrics) from 1935.
I've watched this a good half dozen times. I've got a BA in History and this film has always stood out for being quite realistic even though there is of course a bit of anti German and pro Jewish propaganda it's not something that can be overstated in this case. The Nazis were bad and Jews were the victims so the reality of the times don't need to be overstated. As far as the term Ghetto is concerned it as hundreds of years old and was always referred to a neighborhood where Jews lived. After the war especially here in the states a ghetto has come to mean just a place where lower income people live. I am 64 years old and disabled now. I was a soldier once and luckily never actually had to go into combat. I've always felt that after watching this you feel like you just survived a war. Oskar Schindler was not a good man but for one time in his life he not only did a good thing he did a great thing. I'm not a Jew but that doesn't matter. What little known is there were at least two other business men who were involved in Shindlers scheme but he got the bulk of the recognition. A truly great film
I'm an Atheist ---- but related very deeply to this movie . The problem is that especially younger people don't always know that there even was this holocaust . So we are condemned to commit the sins of the past through lack of passing on this knowledge sufficiently . And the events of today show us progressing towards the same mistakes !
I don't know who did the editing, but the whole purpose of this film was to show some of the atrocities that took place during the holocaust, but the majority of those scenes in Schindler's list were LEFT OUT here. WHY? They NEEDED to be SEEN as there are too many people that DON'T know anything about it. Spielberg toned down and also totally left out the worst and most horrific things that were done to people during the Holocaust, because he thought that people might not be able to handle it. I see NO reason for the atrocities that WERE shown in this film should have been edited out. HOW can you educate people on these atrocities if they don't SEE them? Also, WHY was the ending with the Schindler Jews during WW II marching in a line over the hill, turns into the Schindler Jews today and it tells you that, and how many they are, as well as how many descendants of the Schindler Jews are alive today. THAT was not shown in its entirety. ALSO the part showing all the actors hand in hand with the REAL person they were portraying, and laying rocks on Schindler's grave, should have been shown in its entirety< A lot of very important and key things were left out of this edit. YOU SHOWED NONE OF that when they were stripped of their clothes, or when the children were loaded on trucks and the parents realizing what is happening , run SCREAMING towards the trucks. The scene where they are instructed to dig up the corpses and place the bodies on a conveyer belt that drops them into a burning pile. The shooting of the GHETTO was not completely shown either. I am sorry, I was disappointed in this reaction. When I saw that the length of yours was 2 hours and 29 minutes tI thought that we would be seeing a LOT of the movie, but we only saw about an hour of the 3 hour length. After that, the remaining hour and 14 minutes was your comments.
Goeth might be using a Luger gun to try to shoot the old man. Although it was much admired, it could often have difficulties and was known for being finicky.
this whole scene just symbolized that goeth was a lazy bastard not a real soldier who would take care of his guns and cleans them on a regular basis thats why both his guns jammed.
@@jorgjorgsen7528 It's more than a symbol. It really happened, according to Rabbi Levertov (the jew who was almost shot), which told the event in an interview in 1947. By the way, the "I was shoveling coal because the machines were calibrated this morning" was a lie he told to try and save his life.
You guys didn't actually think Schindler's wife was Jewish. You cannot be that daft. The wife of a Nazi party member who was working close to a Psycho like Goeth? What? This whole reaction was painful to watch, I'm sorry. The two of you seem so ill informed on the whole subject. Maybe actually watch the movie instead of scribbling notes. The comment in the beginning about the currency in Nazi Germany being the Euro (complete with butchered pronounciation) threw me off completely.
How did it feel at the end of the movie to find out that you were totally wrong about Oskar Schindler? I hope that one day we all wake up only to discover that it was all a dream from the moment we arrived. Peace and Blessings. And thanks for your reaction. 😊😊❤
It's still unbelievable that Ralph Fiennes didn't win an Oscar for his portrayal of Amon Goeth. He was nominated but didn't win.
I hated him. Capital H! Took me awhile to separate him from this role, he did a great job of being casually evil.
I agree, he deserved it. But it doesn't surprise me, he didn't get it based on who he was portraying.
Goeth was even more savage in real life than the way he was portrayed in the film. My guess is
Spielberg had to draw the line so as not to turn the audience away.
I agrée his performance was terrifyingly brilliant. Although I imagine there were multiple Jews on the board of the Academy at the time.
Wow, you picked a great place to blame that on a Jewish conspiracy.
Yes, he was fantastic as Amon Goeth. He should have got an Oscar for this...
Guys, c'mon, in the beginning of the movie they told you the movie takes place in Nazi occupied Poland. Yes the Nazis were German, but they invaded Poland.
@@cliffwheeler7357 like a lot of people they may fear history because it was taught to them wrong. They seem like smart, compassionate people who I would enjoy conversing with - they just didn't know history that well.
Chill bro, god damn be a better person!
Damn two people in this comment section really need therapy.
Removing any sugar coating? Uhhhh.......not quite. The people, places & events portrayed here were MUCH worse. It was intentionally toned down in order to make it actually watchable. Amon Goeth, for example, was even more monstrous than portrayed here.
I don't think americans realize how depraved these times were
Just the "medical" experiments would make this movie unwatchable
Yes. They took it easy. No reference to medical experimentation and vivisection. Nothing of the camp brothels, staffed by Jewish women. Officers' brothels with the prettiest. Enlisted brothels. Even prisoner brothels because there was a hierarchy among prisoners, according to their uses, and it was a reward for those who cooperated. And other brothels staffed with emasculated boys.
A lot of sugarcoating.
If it wasn't the case, the average person's(men and women) weight in the movie would be 30kg(70lb)
That would be horrendous for viewers.
@@BintyMcFrazzlesour education system, particularly history, is broken. They won't be up front and fully honest with us about anything, in our own history or world history. I'm my experience, high school education about the Holocaust pretty much lasted a day or two and left it at "Hitler blamed the Jews for all of Germany's problems and wanted to wipe them all out in concentration camps." I was never taught about the difference between labor camps and death camps, about the horrific medical experiments, and many people I know think that the 6 million Jews killed was the extent of the genocide (they don't realize there were 4 million other people killed for other reasons). But what do you expect from a country that won't even be up front and honest about our OWN history of slavery and indigenous genocide? It's sickening, honestly
@@BintyMcFrazzles It didn't happen in America, so it doesn't concern them (sadly).
When Schindler was arguing about his factory being a "haven" it wasn't about reputation. To harbor a Jew was punished by death and often your family's lives as well.
I had a very intimate relationship with my grandma. Then when I was about 12 years old, in Germany, I started to be educated on it. And at some point you start asking questions. (How can a person you love so much, is so dear to you was ok with something like that? Mental dissonance) So I asked my grandmother: How could this happen? How could you/ we the people let this happen?
And she answered: it didn't happen overnight. It took years.
We were busy with our lives. We heard rumours. Neighbors disappeared. Maybe it was also the way, we were brought up. You din't contradict superiors. Maybe I just didn't have the strength/courage. Because, when you live in a dictatorial country you subconsciously know, what will happen to you as well, when you step out of line. They tell you. They show it to you by arresting a neighbor. This will also happen to you.
Which at some point perked the question to me: "What would you have done?"
I used to be quite quick to answer it, but as I get older, with having kids, responsibilities, still learning about those 12 years of horror, I'm honest to say, I don’t know. I try not to judge too fast or do it careful.
Watching this movie, I always feel deeply ashamed. I mean how can you not be ashamed?
History here is being taught quite differently. The focus on historical events (more than 2000 years) has a more down to earth/ realistic sense. Heroic pictures are not part of it.
As an American, I'm ashamed that the US government turned away a ship full of 900 Jewish refugees during that time. They were sent back to Europe where most of not all were captured by the Germans.😢
You should listen to painfontainment by dan carlin it will answers many of your question. Its profound.
If your grandma spoke up at the time, then indeed you would not feel shame, because you likely would not exist. Every decision has positives and negatives, your grandma had to bear such heavy shame her whole life simply for choosing to protect her family over someone else's.
You personally have nothing to be ashamed of and it's interesting to think that, if she had spoken up, you would never have written this comment and I would never have replied!
This is the lesson. And why we all need to remember so that we stay aware as we live our lives today. It happens little by little. A small freedom taken away in the name of safety until you are herded away
If there are no tears in your eyes at the Schindler leaving scene then you are not a human being... This scene breaks everyone...
for me it's the scene where Schindler kisses the girl who as working for Amon Goth (I think her name is Helen)
@@d_pratik1bravo
My husband said liams acting wasnt believable in that part. He still cried though. 🙄 makes no sense. Hes the ONLY ONE who had ever said that about liams acting in this movie. I lost some respect for him after that.
Mrs. Schindler wasn't Jewish. She wanted to be addressed by her name as apposed to "Miss" as not to be mistaken for a mistress instead of his wife.
Mais elle est allemand comme Mm Schindler... non non ...😊
He beat her due to his attraction to her. He hated himself for his attraction and took it out on her.
LIFE is the happy ending to this movie. These people SURVIVED.
A MOVIE THAT SHOULD NOT EVER BE FORGOTTON, IN THIS LIFETIME, OR ANY FUTURE LIFETIME!
They actually had to tone down Amon Goeth character as he was truly much more monstrous than dipicted in this. He even disgusted other nazis . Ralph Fiennes who played Goeth played him so well it caused panic attacks in some of the Schindler Jews on set so Ralph Fiennes took time to comfort them in between takes. His performance and mannerisms are so much like him when you watch footage of Goeth and Fiennes iike a mirror image of him its very freaky how well he played him.
I dont know if anyone told you that this movie was made by speilberg as his final exan to graduate from film school after a 30 year hiatus ( as off making blockbuster movies) . His professor gave him an A minus for this masterpiece..
Goeth was kicked out of the SS because they were disturbed by him. For you to be to crazy for the SS shows how psychotic he was.
Don’t forget: this IS real History and Goeth was actually so much worse that you couldn’t play it like that. Spielberg said: no one would have believed that and thought he would dramatize it for the film
The Schindler Juden at the end always gets to me. Generations were murdered, but Oskar Schindler saved MANY generations. This darkest period of humankind must always be remembered. Zei gezunt.
The "euro" as a currency was launched in 1999. Germany's currency from 1924-1948 was the Reichsmark.
Germany has been using the Euro since 2002. Before that it was Deutsche Mark (DM) since 1948.
You guys should watch The Pianist (2002) directed by Roman Polanski. He was a Jewish boy when the Nazis invaded Poland, so he had first-hand experience of what it was like to live through this horror.
So he incorporated what he did to survive into the film.
It won several awards including a couple Oscars.
Masterpiece.
@@FrancoisDresslerIndeed.
lol like no ones ever heard of the film and cant look it up
He was also a rapist
He is also certified pedo. how nice you can be absolved if you a part of hollywood.
That wasn’t a door chain. It was a mezuzah. It holds a prayer inside.
This is going all the way to Hebrew people commanded by God to mark their doors so he could Passover their houses... In Jewish religion the Mezuza is a symble of God's protection of our homes.
Probably the only movie ive cried through multiple times. The ring scene at the end always gets me
Soft as hell 😂😂
@@nah3826 what's wrong with being soft?
@@nah3826it’s called compassion and empathy.
@@nah3826If that scene doesn’t get you, you’re not human.
@@maximilianotorro527 right
I’ve seen dozens of Schindler’s List reactions and this girl absolutely obliterated the record for “longest time until first cry.”
I don’t know whether to be impressed or concerned.
could be shock, I cried the first time (and many other times) I saw this movie but my dad didn't and neither did my sister.
I noticed her wipe an eye at 1:10:49... perhaps it was dirt or an eyelash? 🤷♂
I thought much the same!
i dont cry during any movie. . doesnt meant i dont feel emotion. . .its just that the "crying part" never happens
If your are that concerned about other people seek therapy you need it more then her.
It's not actually a documentary; it's a fictionalized account of real events based on the stories of real people. It's set in Poland, not Germany. Thomas Keneally wrote the book, which was called "Schindler's Ark," based on stories heard from survivors, but he wrote it as a novel. The screenplay is closer to reality, but Spielberg actually had to tone down the atrocities of Amon Goeth and the Nazis, because he was afraid the movie would become completely unwatchable. Some of the real survivors worked as consultants on set; when the real Mila Pfefferberg saw Ralph Fiennes dressed as Goeth, she started shaking violently. Spielberg took no salary and no cut from the profits from this movie.
Not an excuse, but a partial explanation for some of what the Nazis did, and why the German people put up with it - nearly 80% of the German population and 100% of the German military were addicted to crystal meth - it was put in soldiers' mess kits. Hitler himself was so addicted to drugs (several different ones) that he couldn't get out of bed in the morning unless and until his personal physician shot cocaine directly into his veins. They weren't all psychopaths or sociopaths, but they WERE all drug-addled and judgment impaired, as well as poisoned/brain-washed by ideology/propaganda.
Euros didn't exist in 1943. A thaler was a Polish coin. Germany used Reichsmarks.
When Schindler was talking with the black market guys in the church, he wasn't looking for product to barter. He was legitimately trying to buy a quality shirt. He wanted to look affluent, and while he had some cash, he didn't actually have a lot of money, which is why he needed the Jewish investors' money. They say, "Fair would be a percentage in the company," but they literally could not own companies. Their cash was worthless in their hands, because they could not legally use it. They might as well give it to Schindler, who could. Then he gave them the product made by the company he used their money to buy to pay them back, and they can use the products as something to barter with for things they actually need (at least for awhile; once the work camp was opened, they couldn't any more).
When the Jews were entering the ghetto, they weren't walking without a destination - they had assigned living spaces that they had to move to, after being pushed out of their homes. Auschwitz was operating by that point in time, if you didn't get a Blauschien, you were sent to the death camp.
Their definition of an "essential worker" is literally the opposite of the way the term was used in the US during the COVID pandemic. There, it was used to denote people who could work and therefore were not sent off to be killed. Here, it was used to denote people who were working in jobs that were so essential that they had to risk their health to keep the country going. Please do not confuse the two!
The ghetto was an intermediary stop-gap while they built the Krakow work camp, the Krakow work camp was a stop-gap to get work out of the Jews until room could be made to move them to Auschwitz; even at Auschwitz, people worked until they couldn't - often literally until they dropped.
Schindler tells Stern that he's a German, but he's actually from Czechoslovakia; the excuse Hitler gave for invading Czechoslovakia was that many "ethnic Germans" (like Schindler) lived there, but there's no such thing as an "ethnic German" = German isn't an ethnicity, just a nationality. Similarly, Jewish isn't a racial characteristic; Judaism is a religion.
Cognac is pronounced "cone-yack". Goeth is pronounced "Gert."
At the start, Schindler was just focused on being successful. Stern was the one trying to save people. Only later did Schindler come around to the view that what the Nazis were doing was wrong, regardless of whether or not it impacted him and his business. He is *very* self-entitled, as demonstrated in his conversation with his wife when she came to visit him. He fully intended to be a war profiteer. When the woman comes and asks Schindler to save her parents, he confronts Stern about the danger, but by then he already knows it's a horrible situation. She might be pretending to be German, or Polish, or just not Jewish, it's not clear.
The train that Stern was in, you said they were being treated like animals, but it's actually worse. People were so packed into the cars they couldn't sit; if their legs gave out, they couldn't fall. The cars are literally called "cattle cars" but if the railroad was actually moving cattle, they'd only put 6 animals per car at most.
The little girl in the red coat is in red because Schindler is focused on her and so are we - her coat turns grey after she hides because he can no longer see her, so it's back to black and white. Her jacket is red again at the end so you know that he sees her in the cart and recognizes her. I think you really overthought that one! LOL
Goeth didn't so much realize that Schindler was manipulating him, as that he couldn't pardon himself. Unable to pardon himself, he decided not to pardon anyone else, either. He was very conflicted about Helen, yes. He wanted to, but couldn't, love her. He was a true psychopath.
In the real Auschwitz, the women's hair would have been completely shaved to a bald scalp. In addition to being terrified of disease-carrying lice being able to infest the camp and get on the guards by association, the Nazis used the hair to make yarn for socks for their navy. They also would have been tattooed with their number on their forearm, it wouldn't have just been on their star pinned to their clothes. One thing they didn't show was that in Auschwitz by the time the Schindler women were sent there they were so far behind on burning corpses that the camp guards were stacking them around buildings as insulation against the cold. The camp started out with one crematorium oven for burning bodies to ash, but they added several gas chambers, and people were dying from illness and starvation as well, so they had to add six more ovens, but those were blown up in the last few months of the war, and may have already been blown up before the women arrived at the camp in reality. At any rate, right up until the end of the war, there were bodies almost everywhere, and there would have certainly been corpses stacked up around the buildings the women saw/were in. Corpses were also skinned and the fat was rendered into soap. The skin was used to make lamp shades; for a while during the war, it was considered extremely fashionable in Berlin to have a lamp with such a shade, better if you got one that had the tattooed number from the forearm. The rest is what got burned. You can see an historic picture of stacked bodies behind the oven in the Birkenau camp here: collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa1070095 - it was the same in Auschwitz.
Schindler and his wife were Catholic. That was a Catholic church that he found her in, not a synagogue.
He didn't build a synagogue for the Jewish workers, he just allowed the rabbi to use his office on Friday evenings and Saturday mornings for services.
Schindler saved more Jews from the death camps than literally anyone else. The movie says he saved 1100 people, but it was actually just over 1200. The number of descendants of the Schindler Jews now is somewhere above 8,500. (Sir Nicholas Winston is next, with 669 Jewish children that he was able to save by getting them out of Germany and German-occupied countries.) The movie notes that there were fewer than 4,000 Jewish people in Poland at the time of filming; it has now increased to somewhere between 10,000-20,000. Many people in Poland were raised as Christians because their grandparents or parents survived the war by passing as Christians or getting married to Christians (converting on their own wasn't enough) and didn't know or didn't account for themselves as Jewish or being descended from Jewish families, until the last few years. As more people find out, the Jewish community in Poland is welcoming them into their lives.
Don't be ashamed of the tears. If you don't tear up at some point watching this movie, you're not human.
You talked about the Japanese survivors of the nuclear bombs, but didn't mention the American citizens of Japanese descent who were put into internment camps here in the US during WWII. We were fighting against Germany and Italy at the same time, but didn't put German-Americans or Italian-Americans in camps. It was a clearly racist move.
I liked your answer a lot.
One remark though, there is at least one man who saved more Jews than Schindler, and probably there are others as well. Not that it's a competition, but his story is not as well known since he doesn't have such a great movie in his honour.
Yad Vashem recognized him as well as Righteous among nations.
His name was Ángel Sanz Briz, he was a young spanish diplomat working in Budapest in 1944.
Spain was a neutral country during WWII but Franco's regime was in good relation with Hitler's Germany. So a spanish passport could save you from death if you were a jew in Hungary.
Sanz Briz found a loop hole in an old spanish law (which was actually expired, but Nazis didn't know that) to give spanish citizenship to descendants of sephardic Jews dating back to the expulsion of jews from Spain in 1492.
He was given permission to give this citizenship to 200 people, but twisting his orders he made each document valid for a whole family. And then he started giving letters to each document: 1a, 1b, 1c...so that the number didn't reach 200.
In total he saved 5200 hungarian jews out of whom only 200 were sepharadic jews. He also used his own money to lodge, protect and feed these people in houses he rented right beside the spanish embassy.
Even when he had to flee the country to avoid being killed by the soviet troops he managed to protect these jew families with the hungarian people working at the embassy.
He couldn't accept the Righteous among the Nations medal in 1966 because Franco didn't allowed him to, he continued being a diplomat. Eventually in 1989 at the israeli embassy in Spain his widow could at last receive the honors from Yad Vashem and receive the medal on behalf of his late husband.
@@asdzt123 Consul Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a portuguese who was a consul in France, did somethign similar. He went against the orders of his government, and issued visas to people fleeing nazi germany.
In the end, he gave around 30.000 visas, including about 10.000 visas to jews.
Omg, as a historian, a lot of information you wrote is absolute bullshit.
Especially the soap and lampshade thing AGAIN.
as for this 'Schindler saved more Jews from the death camps than literally anyone else' Irena Sendler saved 2,500.
And to think some people deby the holocaust
Actually, what the person was, removing from the side of the door was a mazuzah , a little container that holds a rolled up, scroll with a verse from the Torah
Yes, a Pole is from Poland.
Germany didn’t begin using the Euro until 2002. During the 1940’s, the basic amount was the Reichsmark and after the war was named the Deutsche Mark. A taler was a name for an ancient Germanic silver coin.
Yeah, that was funny. Ancient history to the young is 15-20 years back. I was waiting for them the say "Why didn't he just text the train station to have them reroute the train back to Schindler's location."
@@rollotomassi6232 i dont know why they were so worried about going to Aushwitz anyway, its just a museum. Theyre not THAT boring.
@@cliffwheeler7357It's sad. Devastating, really. And we can all see the results of this overwhelming ignorance.
I am not surprised about their ignorance, it's the fault of the US school system. The average US american got absolutely no clue about history, geography or anything what's happening outside their bubble. It's frustrating!
מי שהציל נפש אחת כאילו הציל עולם ומלואו
The man who saved a single soul as if he saved the world entire
The ignorance of these two is why its important that this is seen.
Agree im 62, i learnt about this age 12, in the uk where I am from my dad let me watch it on a tv award winning documentary on ITV called World at War 1973. These days they just don't seem to know till they see these films.
@@gemini802from UK too. Aged 36. Obv we covered holocaust in school and knew it was horrendous but not really in all that much detail or understanding. Though I always felt a little more understanding than my peers as I'm Spanish 'gitano' (literally gypsy, but part Roma) and so was hyper aware of being a foreigner that the country could just randomly turn against.
But as an adult I really dove into teaching myself more about it. WW2 documentaries and the real world footage of the liberation of the camps. That's a real eye opener that everyone should watch! It's horrible. It's really hard to watch. But they actually lived through it and I feel like you owe it to them to put yourself through that to properly understand
@@jgreen2015 ive known about it since I was 12, im 62 now, dont lecture me.
@@gemini802 the fuck are you on about?!
@@gemini802 He was not lecturing you.
Him letting them celebrate the shabbath was not giving them back their faith (dont think they ever lost it even during those gruesome times) it was humanizing them again as they were not treated even as human beings.
Hey Gabriella and Caleb, I often put myself back in my mind as a child. When we face cruelity and lack of compassion, someone is often there to protect us. -------- I remember hoping someone would protect me if my parents were not around. And an adult would always step up.------- In many parts of Shindler's List we see the fear of facing the hate of your persecutor, without a shield to protect you. This is unthinkable and frightening to the bone.------- What a cruel world this can be.
When I lived in New York, our neighbors were survivors. They would speak to my wife and I about the horrors they experienced. They did say that this movie came close to the reality. It is extremely difficult to watch. But it is incumbent upon us to say never again and to always remember. We are tasked with preventing another holocaust. Julie/Jessica
"The girl was portrayed by Oliwia Dąbrowska, three years old at the time of filming. Spielberg asked Dąbrowska not to watch the film until she was eighteen, but she watched it when she was eleven, and says she was "horrified".[60] Upon seeing the film again as an adult, she was proud of the role she played." - got this from the wiki. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schindler%27s_List
I was born in Kraków. Schindler's factory still stands and is now a museum.
the real Goeth was even more psycho than shown in the movie. it's worth looking him up. in 1944 for example, he was thrown out by the nazis because he was going to far even by their standards
Schindler was a businessman a bombastic personality. German Jews lived in Germany lived and worked and had businesses with racism mixed in. Then the storm of horror took over. Schindler began to be affected by what he was seeing and he wanted to do something about it.
Amazing how much you missed and or got wrong
You also had some good observations
Ugh.
Honestly, the ignorance on the part of the woman made me cringe and throw things.
But I guess that is actually who needs to be reached.
Yes awful to watch her. I knew about this aged 12 in the uk in 1973 through tv documentary. Im now 62.
She was fine. And the man didn't know a lot of basic history from this time. What's your problem?
I agree. She isn't very bright.
Naja. Nicht jeder kann so wie ihr mit allem Wissen der Welt geboren sein. Solche Aussagen wie eure erinnern mich doch sehr an die "Herrenrasse". Weiß alles, kann alles, muss nichts lernen, arrogant wie Hund.
@@geneticjen9312 People like you are seriously need to stfu sometimes. I’m just being real. If you’re in a first world country and don’t know about these kinds of things that are very basic and well known, you need to be called out. Stop making excuses and saying “it’s ok” “she’s fine” foh with that bs
Thank you for bearing witness and for your thoughtful reaction.
A note on the grave site at the end - it’s Jewish tradition to place a rock on the tombstone to indicate you were there. More permanent and humble than flowers.
Another interesting movie about this era is Life is Beautiful. Amazing story about what a parent will do to protect their child.
The word Ghetto was used long before a term for impoverished parts of a city in the U.S.
A film that had to be made and had to be seen. This movie is a warning.
Excellent reaction, you're exactly right, this is the type of movie that one has to feel - no words can fully convey adequately feelings into words.. But to answer one question at 1:09:05 it's not a synagogue, its a Catholic church (that's how they used to look back in the day), as Schindler walks up to the pew and just before whispering to his wife, we can hear the priest softly chanting in Latin the "Our Father" (Pater Noster).. They were Catholics, both he and his wife (he did the sign of the cross when he asked to do 3 minutes of silence after announcing the end of the war to the workers and notice the cross on his grave stone).. One more interesting thing to notice, earlier in the film when we saw all the guys talking about business inside a house of worship -- it was at a Catholic church too, this is where Jews would go, sit in the back and conduct business in peace -- notice before going to the church, (right infront of a store) one of them (the actor who plays Leopold Pfefferberg), quietly takes off his arm band with the star of david..and in the next scene when we see him again, he's in the church with the others (who aren't wearing the star of david either) doing business in the back (you can also hear the priest chanting softly in the background in Latin here too). Excellent raw reaction from the both of you to such a heavy and heartbreaking movie..
@@cliffwheeler7357then why did you watch it other than to leave hateful comments about the couple who is trying to learn? I can’t help but think that is the only reason you watched
"Liquidation of the ghetto meaning they're going to liquidate it"
"it's just the poor part of town" or "oh look, this family is Jewish"... No shit, Sherlock. That was the point of the Ghetto, to have all the Jews in one place. It was literally explained in writing on the screen earlier in the movie...
What is wrong with you people? If you don’t like them, don’t watch them. Very hateful for no reason.
Ah another comment section with psychopaths who get angry at a movie reaction.
At this stage - I’m not sure there’s any way of making the missus smart enough to take these movies in (in terms of context, history, life, etc) ☹️
Seriously, what is she writing down throughout the movie? Notes? She’s missing so much of the details of the movie by not watching the screen!
This irked me as well. The whole topic seems to go right over her head
@@Luthwen1301 Topic goes over her head? She's listening, she's engaging, she's commenting, she's reacting. She's clearly taken it in and understood the film. What topic doesn't she get?
@@geneticjen9312she thought Schindler's wife was Jewish... that's enough to assume she either wasn't paying attention or just has really bad listening and critical thinking skills. And that's all I'm going to say about this. Watching their daft reaction really made me angry at how utterly uninformed people can be. She thought they had the Euro during WW2 ffs!
@@Luthwen1301I think you and some other commenters are incredibly harsh on this couple in your judgment. Not everyone has the privilege or ability to learn history at the level you are expecting of them. It also comes across as elitist. They are clearly interested in learning and making themselves vulnerable to you and everyone watching this and are willing to accept feedback. I think it’s disturbing that you are like this.
This is coming from the daughter of a published WW2 historian, teacher, and someone of Jewish heritage.
@@hannahbeanies8855 and I think it's disturbing to not only know absolutely nothing about the Holocaust but then also refuse to listen and pay attention during the movie on such an important topic. And this is coming from a German Jew, so don't talk to me about being elitist. They decided to post this on the internet, so they have to take the criticism that comes with doing so.
While making this movie, Spielberg wouldn't even communicate with the actors playing the Einsatzgruppen. These were actors of the German theater playing these parts. Spielberg would give them direction but he wouldn't make small talk with them as he couldn't get past the Schutzstaffel uniforms. That is until a beautiful thing happened very early in production. A Passover Seder was held at the hotel the cast and crew were staying. Spielberg had all the Jewish actors sitting around at a table, then all the German actors walked in wearing yarmulkes and participated in the rituals of the Passover Seder and Spielberg was moved to tears.
The dance at the beginning is the Tango.
yes and the song is 'Por Una Cabeza' by Carlos Gardel - it has been used in many films including 'True Lies' and 'Scent of a Woman'
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Thaler is a silver coin that was worth 3 Reichsmarks.
The Reichsmark, in turn, is the currency in Germany between 1924 and 1948.
Reichsmark is also a so-called gold core currency.
The €URO was first introduced in January 2002.
Try to imagine walking out of the movie theatre back in 93, everyone slowly walking back to their cars, nobody talking, you knew it hit.
I have been in 3 Concentration Camps on School Field Trips. Never have places spread such a gloomy, depressive, sad and hopeless mood for me.
Believe me, this movie is not sugarcoating at all. In reality, it's toned down. This is tame.
They completely dehumanized the Jews and treated them in unbelievable, gruesome and disgusting ways no one ever wants to encounter.
Sugarcoating kinda means toning something down from what actually happened.
The train cars are 40 & 8 cars. Comfortably fitting 40 men or 8 horses. In reality they were often filled with 100-150 people. So full that the dead stayed standing until the car was emptied.
Good, solid reaction overall, to a masterpiece. Too bad you skipped the "this list is absolute good" scene, odd editing choice, since it's one of the most iconic moments of the film.
I AGREE!!!
These are two good kids, they just don't really understand the Holocaust.
I really wanted to watch this reaction but you guys need to pick up some history books…
this movie messed me up quite bad. I can’t even watch any more war films because of how badly this movie affected me. Such an amazing film nonetheless and one of the greatest movies of all time
The pianist broke me even more
@@mugiwara7347 I tried watching the pianist a week after finishing this movie. I was so emotionally affected by Schindlers List I couldn’t even gather the courage to finish it, but I’m sure that the pianist is an absolutely heartbreaking movie to watch.
@@Xxjxcob you should finish it. The ending was great.
Jeez. No, it’s not his perspective. That’s what Spielberg did on purpose and he’s not on his high horse. He was just horseback riding that day.
I'm like 4 mins into your reaction and already annoyed that you'd rather take notes than actually watch the movie and read the description they put up on the screen!!!!! Watch the damn movie!!!
I'm a bit further in and she seems like a total valley girl type ditz. I'm doubting she was even taking any real notes
55:03 behold the pale horse he who sat upon him was death and hell followed with him, that's the symbolism of that scene
The dance at the beginning was of course a tango. "Taler" used to be a currency, and the name "Dollar" is derived from it. You need to understand that Schindler had to hide what he was actually doing, the Nazis would have killed him otherwise, and he would have saved nobody. He wasn't the only one to hire workers from this camp, there was also Julius Madritsch who can be seen in one scene.
Is it so hard to pick up a few books and do research ? WWII and then around the same time having to fight Japan. Then there also is a slew of Nazis escaping and finding refuge in South America.
@@cliffwheeler7357 yes and how about there disdain for executing some German soldiers "doing similar crimes that the Germans did". This is what happens with UA-cam. Everyone becomes an author, journalist, historian it's time to pretend.
@@cliffwheeler7357 i forgot this. I heard once a Graduate of UA-cam believe a ghetto was a bodega! Lmao
For some people, yes it is. And it is very judgmental to condemn this couple for being ignorant when they know they are and want to learn. Hence this watch and reaction.
59:38 that little look that Olek gives of utter terror and sadness stayed with me a long time after I saw this movie for the first time. The disregard the Nazis had for the innocence of children, and the specific targeting of children, was one of the truly more heinous crimes among many they committed.
Northern Germany used a Taler or Thaler (meaning "valley money") as a unit of money from 1690 to 1873 when they switched to the gold Deutschmark. [The "Euro" you mentioned is a very recent invention, created by the E.U. which was an outgrowth of the European Common Market. That's all post-WWII.]
There were earlier kinds of Thalers, going back to the days of the Holy Roman Empire. Also, the "Dollar" (a term used in the U.S., Canada, Australia etc.) is a corruption of the term "Thaler."
So, "Thaler" could very well show up in old German drinking songs.
And my Grandpa still said "here's a Taler for you" when handing us money in the 90s. Colloquially the term was still used, especially by older generations
The item that the man pryed from the door frame of his home and kissed, was a mezuzah. It is a container for a tiny piece of parchment with a handwritten prayer on it that starts with, "Hear oh Israel, the lord our God, the lord is one." It should be placed on the entrance door frame of a jewish home.
20:16 He's not removing the door-hinge - It's called a "Mezuza", every Jewish house has them on the side of the doors.. It's a cylinder with a sacred prayer written on a scroll inside it. Thanks for your reaction!
Incredibly important film that needs to be seen by all, especialy the generations to come, now more importantly, thank- you guys for sharing this film, it needs to be not forgotten.
37:10 Ghetto is an Italian word. early 17th century: perhaps from Italian getto ‘foundry’ (because the first ghetto was established in 1516 on the site of a foundry in Venice), or from Italian borghetto, diminutive of borgo ‘borough’.
In the book it was told that Amon Goeth had a trial and tried to bring Schindler as a witness, believing he will bail him out. And Schindler came, witnessing as much as he could about Amon's atrocities, ensuring he will be executed.
This movie should be required viewing for every high school history class covering WWII
Caleb and Gabriella, I think you guys eventually got the symbolism of the girl in the red coat. -------- She was meant to represents a similar girl Schindler saw when the Jewish ghettos were being raided and everyone murdered. -------- He saw this little girl walking about in the swell of people and no one took notice of her. --------- No one noticed her, Not the Jewish people running for their lives nor the Germans chasing them. ------- To him, this little girl symbolized the apathy that had descended over the GErman society at the time. Truly heartwrenching and sad.
It's the same girl.
Thank you for watching this film. If we don’t learn about history and it’s facts we repeat ourselves.
In your comments after the movie, I hope you weren’t comparing the atomic bombs dropped on Japan to the Holocaust. They couldn’t be more dissimilar. We dropped those bombs to END the war, and as soon as they finally surrendered, we stopped dropping bombs. The Holocaust would have kept on going until the Germans ran out of Jews and others to kill.
We did, but it is important to remember those innocent people who were ultimately sacrificed to end the war. It is not a virtuous thing. Certainly not the holocaust, but we cannot paint it as something good
What makes this movie so special is that the entire cast & crew refused to be paid for making it. Spielberg said in a interview that they all saw taking payment as equal to taking ‘blood money’, instead, everyone pooled together what they earned and founded the USC Shoah Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicating into preserving the accounts of both survivors and victims and provide them for educational purposes. Thanks to this film, there was a drastic spike of education programs in the US dedicating into teaching all generations of what the Holocaust was.
An incredibly sad movie, but it only scratches the surface. Movies and TV shows that targeted the World War II generation during the 50s and 60s, as well as the hunt for Nazis, the capture and execution of Eichmann, and even the occasional Japanese soldier found still hiding in jungles prompted many conversations where survivors and veterans finally started to share their experiences during the war with their Boomer kids.
Spielberg did well to show horror up to the limit of most people, but the complete truth would have left very few people watching to the end.
I’ll never get the images from the Nuremberg Trials out of my head. It was hard to stomach.
The thing by the door was a mezuzah, it’s an important Jewish symbol placed by their front door
Took you guys so long to realise schindler was a good man and what he was trying to do
Thank you for taking the time to watch this amazing yet tradgic telling of real events. I watch this movie twice a year and my children watch it to continue to remind me. I hope you watch it again and maybe say a prayer. Thank you and god bless stay safe J.
He's thankful for the food he was given. Prisoners were made to starve.
36:58 ah such a genius statement.
A film that does an amazing job showing how this all went down from the start to the ghettos to later is called the Pianist. There’s also great ones that show how it was in Italy but it’s much older. If you’re ever interested in seeing more I’ve done many film studies on this topic (also for a different one there’s Hotel Rwanda)
him and Schindler... made me cry... HIM...
He wasn't taking the door chain. Observant Jews affix a mezuzah to their front doorposts of their homes. A mezuzah is a small case that contains a scroll of parchment inscribed with a prayer. The scroll is handwritten and contains the Shema, a central Hebrew prayer that reminds people of God's presence in their lives.
the "Euro" currency came waaaaaaay after the ww2, around the late 90s!!!!
before that germans used "Mark"
also the process of forming the EU (European union) started after the war, because of the war!
I appreciate seeing new audiences watching movies like this, for the historical value and because it's a cinema masterpiece.
I'm not expecting history degree level comments but I'm quitting the video after the first restaurant scene.
Waltz? No, it's a Tango (probably the most famous one)
Currency in Poland 1939, dollars? euros? What?
Wow new generations! HAHAAHA 😉
is this one of my new favorite reacting channels.. I believe so, we appreciate the professionalism and long talks after. love
At 20:15 what the Jewish man was taking off the door was called a Mezuzah - A small parchment scroll upon which the Hebrew words of the Shema are handwritten by a scribe. Mezuzah scrolls are rolled up and affixed to the doorposts of Jewish homes, designating the home as Jewish and reminding those who live there of their connection to G‑d and their heritage.
Great reaction, and I enjoyed your many comments and observations. I’m an older guy who’s witnessed a few turns of history, being one who paid attention to events from an early age. What I find most sobering is that only 20 years passed between World Wars 1 & 2. And now it’s been almost 80 years since the end of World War 2. While it isn’t pleasant to contemplate for long, there are now more dangerous and numerous issues in the world than existed just prior to either World War. And those matters are far less solvable. Whatever else is said, our future will not be dull or uninteresting.
That psycho is Lord Voldemort and the accountant is Sir Ben kingsley.he is one of the greatest actor too.
The guy that has to leave his house isn't taking out a hinge from his door: that's a mezuzah, a metal box that includes a piece of the Torah and is inserted into the frame of the door to seek God's recognition and protection. It's an important religious item for traditional Jewish people, one that marks their houses as the house of a believer.
One advice for the girl.... When movie is going on, then please avoid writing..... It's very irritating and it makes movie less enjoyable as you are focused on writing..... Better pause the movie then write or avoid writing....
Also. To add, the girl in red is representing innocence. These people did nothing wrong but have different beliefs. Its truly heartbreaking. Every soul lost in wars and genocide is just.... heartbreaking.
Thank you for doing this film, I believe every grown up should watch this at least once, just to get a small grasp of what the Holocaust was. It always amazes me that he made just enough money to save them. Thank you again!
This had 12 oscar nominations. It won 7 for best picture, best director for Steven Spielberg, best adapted screenplay, original music, cinematography, editing, and production design, and it was also up for best actor for Liam Neeson, best supporting actor for Ralph Fiennes, makeup, costume design, and sound mixing.
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What is the name of the tango from Schindler's List?
Por una cabeza (Spanish: 'around the head [of a horse]') is a popular tango by Carlos Gardel (music) and Alfredo Le Pera (lyrics) from 1935.
Hi Arno.
It also featured in _Scent of a Woman_ (1992) and _True Lies_ (1994).
@@spring_in_paris Hallo Eva
I've watched this a good half dozen times. I've got a BA in History and this film has always stood out for being quite realistic even though there is of course a bit of anti German and pro Jewish propaganda it's not something that can be overstated in this case. The Nazis were bad and Jews were the victims so the reality of the times don't need to be overstated. As far as the term Ghetto is concerned it as hundreds of years old and was always referred to a neighborhood where Jews lived. After the war especially here in the states a ghetto has come to mean just a place where lower income people live. I am 64 years old and disabled now. I was a soldier once and luckily never actually had to go into combat. I've always felt that after watching this you feel like you just survived a war. Oskar Schindler was not a good man but for one time in his life he not only did a good thing he did a great thing. I'm not a Jew but that doesn't matter. What little known is there were at least two other business men who were involved in Shindlers scheme but he got the bulk of the recognition. A truly great film
I'm an Atheist ---- but related very deeply to this movie . The problem is that especially younger people don't always know that there even was this holocaust . So we are condemned to commit the sins of the past through lack of passing on this knowledge sufficiently . And the events of today show us progressing towards the same mistakes !
This is the saddest movie I have ever seen, and it is true. Added is that Schlinder was not rewarded in his life, but he willl be in the future.
The frightening thing is that something like this could easily happen again, and most people would not expect it
I don't know who did the editing, but the whole purpose of this film was to show some of the atrocities that took place during the holocaust, but the majority of those scenes in Schindler's list were LEFT OUT here. WHY? They NEEDED to be SEEN as there are too many people that DON'T know anything about it. Spielberg toned down and also totally left out the worst and most horrific things that were done to people during the Holocaust, because he thought that people might not be able to handle it. I see NO reason for the atrocities that WERE shown in this film should have been edited out. HOW can you educate people on these atrocities if they don't SEE them?
Also, WHY was the ending with the Schindler Jews during WW II marching in a line over the hill, turns into the Schindler Jews today and it tells you that, and how many they are, as well as how many descendants of the Schindler Jews are alive today. THAT was not shown in its entirety. ALSO the part showing all the actors hand in hand with the REAL person they were portraying, and laying rocks on Schindler's grave, should have been shown in its entirety< A lot of very important and key things were left out of this edit. YOU SHOWED NONE OF that when they were stripped of their clothes, or when the children were loaded on trucks and the parents realizing what is happening , run SCREAMING towards the trucks. The scene where they are instructed to dig up the corpses and place the bodies on a conveyer belt that drops them into a burning pile. The shooting of the GHETTO was not completely shown either.
I am sorry, I was disappointed in this reaction. When I saw that the length of yours was 2 hours and 29 minutes tI thought that we would be seeing a LOT of the movie, but we only saw about an hour of the 3 hour length. After that, the remaining hour and 14 minutes was your comments.
Goeth might be using a Luger gun to try to shoot the old man. Although it was much admired, it could often have difficulties and was known for being finicky.
this whole scene just symbolized that goeth was a lazy bastard not a real soldier who would take care of his guns and cleans them on a regular basis thats why both his guns jammed.
@@jorgjorgsen7528 It's more than a symbol. It really happened, according to Rabbi Levertov (the jew who was almost shot), which told the event in an interview in 1947.
By the way, the "I was shoveling coal because the machines were calibrated this morning" was a lie he told to try and save his life.
Great reactions to an astounding movie
By the way, the portrayal of Amon here was toned down to be less traumatic to viewers
The word ghetto simply means a section of a city that is densely populated, impoverished, and inhabited by members of a minority ethnic group.
I loved that you noticed the color disappear as the flame went out.
The dance is Tango the song is Por una Cabesa
You guys didn't actually think Schindler's wife was Jewish. You cannot be that daft. The wife of a Nazi party member who was working close to a Psycho like Goeth? What?
This whole reaction was painful to watch, I'm sorry. The two of you seem so ill informed on the whole subject. Maybe actually watch the movie instead of scribbling notes.
The comment in the beginning about the currency in Nazi Germany being the Euro (complete with butchered pronounciation) threw me off completely.
How did it feel at the end of the movie to find out that you were totally wrong about Oskar Schindler? I hope that one day we all wake up only to discover that it was all a dream from the moment we arrived. Peace and Blessings. And thanks for your reaction. 😊😊❤
20:23 isn't a door hinge, its readings from the Torah, that jews touch and ask for blessings before entering the room, its part of Judaism teachings