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How  useful  and  reliable  is  Schindler's  List  as  a  
historical  source?  
 
Schindler’s  List  is  a  historical  film  based  on  true  events
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 He  dedicated  the  book  to  a  holocaust  survivor,  Pfefferberg
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Steven  Spielberg  (the  director)  made  the  film  to  inform  people  about  the  true  horrors  of  
the  holocaust
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Spielberg  found  the  film  deeply  emotional  as  he  faced  anti-­‐Semitism  in  his  childhood
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 Spielberg  adds  dates  and  places  to  make  the  audience  believe  the  film  
is  realistic  and  gives  a  feeling  of  reading  from  a  diary
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 Spielberg  said  the  scene  was  intended  to  symbolise  
how  members  of  the  government  knew  the  holocaust  was  occurring,  yet  did  nothing  to  
stop  it
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 In  some  scenes  of  the  film  the  camera  is  
shaking  to  help  bring  you  into  the  film  and  to  yet  again  feel  like  actual  footage
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 This  is  done  
so  the  audience  will  expect  the  worse
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 Spielberg’s  grandmother,  Becky,  often  sang  the  song  to  her  
grandchildren
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 Our  first  encounter  with  Schindler  in  the  film  he  uses  his  power  to  stop  the  train,  
that  was  heading  to  Auschwitz,  even  though  he  stopped  it  for  his  own  purposes,  he  wore  
a  suit  and  when  the  Nazis  refused  to  stop  the  train  with  his  accountant  (Itzhak  Stern)  on  
he  wrote  the  Nazis  names  down  on  a  list
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 Showing  no  care  for  Stern  and  his  almost  certain  death
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 Schindler  owned  a  factory  for  cooking  
supplies
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 In  1942,  all  of  the  
Jews  working  in  Schindler's  factory  are  assigned  to  the  Labor  Camps
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 When  his  factory  is  no  longer  for  cooking  supplies,  but  is  used  for  
ammunition  he  starts  using  his  company  to  save  the  lives  of  his  Jewish  staff
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 In  reaction  to  
this,  Oskar  Schindler  demands  more  Jewish  workers  to  his  factory  and  bribes  Nazi  
leaders  to  keep  them
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 What  makes  the  story  of  Oskar  Schindler  so  fascinating  is  he  was  not  a  saint
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Emilie  Schindler  (Schindlers  wife)  described  Schindler  as  a  constant  liar,  he  was  
constantly  deceiving  me,  and  later  would  return  feeling  sorry,  like  a  boy  caught  in  
mischief,  asking  to  be  forgiven  one  more  time
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"  We  also  learn  that  Emilie  took  a  more  active  role  in  
caring  for  Jews
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 She  says  that  he  
neglected  her  a  lot  and  when  she  is  hospitalized  for  several  months  in  1941,  we  learn  

about  how  Oskar  neglected  to  visit  her  even  once,  leaving  her  to  question  their  entire  
relationship
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 He  treats  the  
Jews  with  no  respect
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 I  believe  he  is  a  
psychopath,  as  when  he  falls  in  love  with  a  Jewish  girl  he  would  rather  shoot  her  in  the  
head  than  send  her  to  Auschwitz
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 On  the  13th  September  1944  Goeth  was  relieved  of  his  position  and  was  
charged  by  the  SS  with  theft  of  Jewish  property,  failure  to  provide  adequate  food  to  the  
prisoners  under  his  charge,  violation  of  concentration  camp  regulations  regarding  the  
treatment  and  punishment  of  prisoners,  and  allowing  unauthorised  access  to  camp  
personnel  records  by  prisoners  and  non-­‐commissioned  officers
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 Today  will  be  remembered
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 Today  is  history  and  you  are  part  of  it
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 They  came
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 They  settled
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 They  prospered  in  business,  
science,  education,  and  the  arts
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 For  six  centuries  there  has  been  a  Jewish  Krakow
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 They  never  happened
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 This  quote  is  
one  of  a  kind  in  the  movie,  for  it  expresses  the  unfairness  treatment  against  Jews  and  the  
reasons  for  the  desire  to  remove  them  from  society
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Throughout  the  film  we  are  shown  how  the  Jews  are  treated  in  great  detail,  beginning  
with  them  being  herded  into  ghettoes  to  live
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   Many  people  died  from  ‘natural  reduction’  –  starvation,  illness  and  
general  suffering  from  the  inhumane  conditions
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 These  were  very  overcrowded
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 Goeth  (the  high  ranking  Nazi  in  the  film)  stands  out  on  his  
balcony,  high  above  the  working  Jews  and  shoots  them  at  random
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 This  casual  attitude  towards  something  so  horrific  is  typical  of  the  SS  
officers’  attitude  towards  Jews  at  that  time
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 We  know  this  is  reliable  as  there  is  many  pictures  of  
Goeth  sat  on  a  balcony  with  a  gun  looking  over  the  Jews
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 This  cost  him  around  4  million  German  marks  (around  £1,719,348)
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 Leopold  Pfefferberg  was  173  on  the  
list
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   The  
first  time  Schindler  and  Pfefferberg  meet  is  in  a  church,  while  according  to  the  book  
Schindler  has  visited  Pfefferberg  at  his  mothers  house,  where  he  almost  got  killed  by  
Pfefferberg,  because  he  thought  that  Schindler  was  an  SS  man,  that  wanted  to  do  her  
harm,  or  wanted  to  arrest  him  since  he  was  a  fugitive  at  that  moment
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 In  the  
book  the  kiss  happened  in  his  office  where  delegations  of  workers  stopped  by  to  
congratulate  him
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 Near  the  end  of  the  film  Amon  
Goeth  gets  executed  but  looks  nothing  like  the  actual  film  footage  of  the  execution
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 His  last  words  were  still  "Heil  Hitler"
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 Among  the  decorations  worn  by  Amon  Goeth  on  his  SS  uniform  are  the  Iron  Cross  
2nd  Class,  the  Sudetenland  Medal,  and  the  Silesian  Eagle
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 The  scene  in  the  movie  Schindler’s  List  with  Oskar  Schindler  thinking  of  
names  or  demanding  Itzhak  Stern  come  up  with  more  names  simply  did  not  happen,  
according  to  Crowe
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 He  admitted  as  much  to  Dr
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I  believe  that  Schindler’s  List  is  a  reasonably  reliable  representation  of  the  Holocaust  
and  can  be  very  useful  as  a  historical  source
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   I  believe  it  is  reliable  because  nearly  everything,  if  not  most,  that  
was  included  in  the  movie  that  happened  to  the  Jews  can  be  backed  up  by  other  sources  
and  witness  accounts
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 But  I  think  its  is  important  to  remember  that  it  is  not  a  documentary  but  a  
film,  and  the  aim  of  a  film  is  to  entertain

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