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How Is Schindler's List Historically Accurate

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Schindler’s List is a movie based on the Holocaust. Whether the story happened exactly like in the movie is still debatable. Most of the events that are depicted are true, such as the attempts to save lives of Jews who were being killed and dispatched to concentration camps. In the movie we see Oskar Schindler, a German businessman, trying to save lives of Jews because he argues that they were necessary for his factory to increase in profit and be successful. According to David M. Crowe, Oskar Schindler didn’t have much to do with the list that was created. The only contribution Oskar had with the list was to suggest names of those who he wanted to save. After watching the movie, I thought it was accurate up to a point. Schindler’s List is historically accurate because it shows how Jews were treated, the living conditions in which they were submitted to, and it showed how the lives of more than one thousand Jews were saved. …show more content…

Whether he contributed or not on the list, without the names he gave the list wouldn’t have been created. Towards the end of the movie we see Schindler giving a thousand names to Itzhak. The Jews that were named on the list were to be given to Schindler and were taken out of the concentration camps to work with him. Seeing that not every German treated Jews under crucial conditions gave me a relief. Even though Schindler had a lot to lose for helping the Jews, he did every possible thing to help and save as many Jews as he could. In the movie, Schindler blames himself for buying unnecessary things he didn’t need like his car, watch, and his expensive clothing. He blames himself because he realized that with that money he could have saved more lives. Whether he really felt that way is still debatable. What we do know is that he, in fact, helped in rescuing more than a thousand Jews from these concentration camps. His bravery to betray these German Nazi’s didn’t stop him from saving the lives of many

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