Comparing Schindler's List And The Holocaust

Soon after the war began Schindler completely abandoned his selfish desires of gaining wealth and power and started building factories in Poland so he can start employing Jewish workers, which saved them from being killed. Though from doing this started to get the SS's attention and eventually led him to being arrested twice. Even from all these obstacles, Schindler still did not give up and kept all his factories running and kept them as a haven for the Jews. Schindler managed to remain on excellent terms with German officials through expensive gifts and bribery. On the other hand Schindler stood out and bravely defied his German allies for something he strongly believed was right. In 1941 German-occupied Poland was a country bursting with racism and hatred against Jews. The

looked down upon, Schindler’s actions turned out to be of the highest acceptability as this trait

Instead of transferring these people to camps Schindler gave Jews the ability to work at the factory. As a man and a leader Schindler stepped up his game he knew he had to make an impact towards the terrorism too much murder got Schindler worried he felt like he was losing his people in a way where money and resources can be involved. If it wasn’t for Schindler, approximately

Schindler was a rescuer of the jews because he was not a fan of how they were treated. When asked why he saved them he replied by saying “I knew the people who worked for me. When you know people, you have to behave towards them like human beings.” Unlike the nazis and Hitler, Oscar Schindler saw jews as normal human beings and did not use them and make them do manual labor just to survive and not be killed. He did make them work just so the nazis did not come in and just kill all of them or take them back to a concentration camp and abuse them. The condition Oscar Schindler had was when he had the jews working for him that he didn’t want them to make any of the bullets functional and allow them to be fired and kill

One problem facing Karl Stern is that he is a Jewish teen growing up in a mid 1930’s Nazi Germany. Karl is Jewish by blood through his Jewish grandmother but he’d never practiced Judaism. For his entirety of his schooling career he’d been able claim he’s not a Jew, and his Aryan looks aided his disguise. On the last day of the school year in 1934, all this came to an end and Karl’s secret was discovered. Karl had seen the “Wolf Pack”, consisting of Gertz Diener, Julius Austerlitz and Franz Hellendorf, terrorising a handful of other Jewish students at his school.

"The sort of person that Eichmann appeared to be did not square either with the deeds for which he was being tried or with the traditional preconceptions about the kind of person who does evil" (Geddes). Throughout the trial, Arendt is conflicted by what she wants to seen when she analyzes Eichmann, and struggles greatly when she finds he does not embody the crude and inhumane thoughts she associated with the history of the Holocaust. It is this absence of the profound hatred of Jews, along with the normalcy he possesses, that creates the emblematic role of banal evil for Adolf Eichmann.

Throughout the film Schindler’s List, the characters Oskar Schindler and Amon Goeth grew increasingly different. In the beginning, Goeth and Schindler were both power hungry and egotistical. However, as the movie continues, several notable instances demonstrate the juxtaposition between the men. In Schindler’s List, the evidence that marks Goeth as a static character and Schindler as a dynamic character is apparent.

Six million Jewish residents of Eastern Europe were exterminated during the Holocaust of the 1940’s. Families were taken out of their homes and put into ghettos, which were large prison type establishments that housed dozens of people in one small apartment. They were then separated from their families, "men to the left and women to the right", and were placed in concentration camps, where most of them were killed and cremated. In 1993, Steven Spielberg directed a film, Schindler’s List, which depicted the life of one man who risked his life and money to save the few Jewish families he could.

I think at first, Schindler was just doing it to get money and to please himself, but once he realized the true meaning of the final solution, he really did try hard to save as many as possible, and (as shown at the end of the movie) he feels like he didn’t do enough when in reality he did something truly amazing. At the beginning, the role of Itzhak Stern was to get the loans that Schindler needed to buy a building and start a company that would help him get money. Stern was the accountant of the previous business that owned the building that Schindler wanted, so Schindler thought that Stern would be the best person to go to get the building. Stern, after helping Schindler get the money required to buy the building, tells Schindler that he

Schindler's List is one of the most powerful movies of all time. It presents the indelible true story of enigmatic German businessman Oskar Schindler who becomes an unlikely saviour of more than 1100 Jews amid the barbaric Nazi reign. A German Catholic war profiteer, Schindler moved to Krakow in 1939 when Germany overran Poland. There he opens an enamelware factory that, on the advice of his Jewish accountant Itzhak Stern, was staffed by Jews from the nearby forced labour camp at Plaszow. Schindler's factory prospered though his contacts with the Nazi war machine and its local representatives, as well as his deft skill on the black market. Then, somewhere along the way, Schindler's devotion to self-interest was

From this moment on, the people that worked for Schindler were not just Jews, they were Schindlerjuden, people who he had the responsibility of protecting. Itzak Stern was no longer just his accountant and business manager, he was Schindler’s go-to person vital to the survival of the Schindlerjuden. Schindler grew closer to Stern as the war progressed and he began to regard Stern as an equal, sharing personal thoughts and decisions with him. After the war, Schindler relied on Stern and the other Schindlerjuden for support as he was never able to live a secure life because of the effect the war had on him.

One of the first connections I made, was the one where the Jews were treated poorly, and what it had shown in the movie. Throughout Schindler’s List, we see the Jews being bombarded with insults and racial slurs. A majority of the people saying these things, seemed to be neighbors of the Jews, before the Jews were moved to concentration camps or ghettos.

“I took no poetic license with ‘Schindler’s List’ because that was historical, factual documents” - Steven Spielberg. Schindler’s List, directed by Steven Spielberg, is a historically accurate portrayal of the actions carried out by Nazi businessman Oskar Schindler, who doesn't hesitate to exploit Jewish slave labour in his factory. As World War II progresses, and the motives of the Nazi party become clear, Oskar’s incentives switch from that of a profiteer to that of a saviour. Oskar is able to save a number of Jews from certain death through gassing and labour camps. In the final scene of Schindler’s List, Spielberg’s clever use of colour, mise en scene and text creates a compelling closing scene that helped to convey the horrors of the

In Stephen Spielberg’s 1993 movie Schindler’s List, businessman and factory owner Oskar Schindler is concerned with both the welfare of his business as well as the workforce he employs of primarily Jewish people after witnessing their persecution by the German’s during the German’s occupation of Poland amid World War II. Themes pertaining to Social Psychology can be found in this film such as prejudice and discrimination, conformity, influence in social groups, aggression, cognitive dissonance, and altruism.

In Schindler’s List Sterns admiration is not revealed to the audience until deep within the films plot. Soon Schindler and Stern are on their way to the creation of a factory that would completely run on Jewish labour. Soon after this “safe haven” for the Jewish people is created, the prosecution of the Jewish people of Poland begins, with their forced re-location in the ghettoes. Earlier in the Novel Oskar Schindler is seen as: Within the novel Schindler’s Ark the epilogue is dedicated to Oskar Schindler’s life and what had happened to him after the Nazi Campaign.