Schindler's List Propaganda

The movie, “Schindler’s List” -- while being historically accurate factually -- can prove to be misleading when it comes to how it is supposed to make you feel. In the beginning, there was a man named Oskar Schindler. He was a Nazi, and fully supported the Nazi party, but never had much interaction with any treatment of the Jews and other discriminated people. He used his influence and money to “woo” other Nazi party officials “Herr Schindler had a reputation for being generous with gifts of liquor at Christmas…” (Keneally 15), and then use influences to get what he wants, which would come into play for him later. Oskar bought a enamel factory, and renamed it “Deutsche Emalwarenfabrik” to produce pots and pans for the German soldiers at war.

When time came and the Nazi’s started send all the Jews to death camps, Oskar stepped in to save the ones that had been working for him, basically buying them from the local SS-Hauptsturmführer at Płaszów, where the workers had been coming and going to and from work every day. Because of this, the 1,100 Jews that Oskar had working for him, were saved from being murdered in death camps, by guards, or by causes of starvation or

“As the Jews’ predicament steadily worsens, Schindler’s acts of protection increase, and self-interest becomes an increasingly inadequate motive [to keep the Jews]. But the movie suggests no alternative. Schindler’s decency is presented as a kind of enigmatic equivalent of Goeth’s barbarity.” (Gourevitch 50) This, theme of good versus evil is what keeps people interested in the movie, so they have a good guy to root for, an underdog to believe in, and a cause to support, otherwise naturally as humans, many would lose interest and those who are would have to decipher through to get the actual message and morale of the story. The theme and morale of the story could also go down a route of allegory to Noah in the Old Testament, “Originally published as in England as Schindler's Ark, this title has the additional resonance of the Old Testament narrative of Noah who, under God's orders, build a huge boat to save the good of the world from the imminent, all-destroying Flood.” (Kerner 18), portraying Schindler to Noah, saying he is almighty and is a god-send to all the prisoners he saved. This portrayal of Schindler is done by interpretation, but Steven Spielberg also has to put a twist on it in his own