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Schindler's List Propaganda

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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. …show more content…

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 …show more content…

“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

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One appeal in particular that Schindler nailed in the head was pathos. Throughout his address, Schindler commemorates the lives of both the living and fallen Jewish people during the Holocaust. Additionally, Schindler pulled at the heartstrings of his factory workers when he stated, “Tomorrow, you'll begin the process of looking for survivors of your families. In most cases, you won't find them” (Schindler’s List). Here, Schindler confessed to the workers the harsh realities of their situation; however, the way he expressed this fact made the workers melancholy but not defeated.

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Throughout Schindler’s List by Steven Spielberg, Oskar Schindler’s character has changed drastically. At the beginning of World War II, Schindler was a womanizing, selfish and manipulative man. After seeing the process that he watched the Jews go through, he realizes the way the Nazis have treated them is unacceptable. Towards the end of the war Schindler has grown due to the experiences he has been through. These experiences have made him a decent, unselfish, and manipulative man.

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Schindler was a German industrialist, spy and member of the Nazi Party who was out to make money, but ended up saving over 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust age. Schindler was out too help save as many Jews as he could. Schindler spent millions of dollars to protect his Jews. The people whom he saved would work for him with out pay, and would also be housed, clothes, and feed with the promised protection of their lives. “These people.

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On the other hand, in the movie ‘Schindler’s list’, Schindler’s life changes as he realizes the Jews shouldn’t be treated brutally. So he begins a mission to help them. The director Steven Spielberg directed the whole story in a realistic way and it was a successful

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During the Holocaust, Schindler employed Jewish people in his factory and protected them from the Nazis by claiming that they were essential workers. He spent his own money to bribe officials and keep his Jewish workers safe, he even risked his own life to protect them. Schindler's factory became a safe place for Jews during WW2 and Schindler would use his influence to ensure that they were all treated fairly and given proper food and medical care during the holocaust.

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Schindler did some very bad things in the beginning, he used slave labor for his profit and he schmoozed many people for his benefit. Though near the end he still schmoozed to get what he wanted, now it was for the benefit of the Jews that he was saving. Schindler change of character and attitude saved 1200 Jews. Schindler changed a lot and because of that many generations of the jews he saved lived

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The origin of this source is valuable because Classen specializes in politics and in this article he comprehensively discuss how the film has a perfect balance of history, culture, and politics, which aids in the story telling. He says that “Schindler’s List, is the first authentic film about the Holocaust,” he also states that “nothing can top it” (Classen, Christoph 78). The purpose of this article was to explore how fictional films achieve historical truth and authenticity (Classen, Abstract) when telling a historical story. He specifically mentions the strategies Spielberg used when creating this film. This particular article is filled with opinions from a diverse group of people, it possesses valuable points, but it cannot be heavily relied.

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A man by the name of Oskar Schindler realized that what the Germans were doing to the Jewish people was wrong, and even though he was a German man himself, he decided to try to help save as many Jewish people as he could. He bribed German soldiers into letting him buy Jewish people with his own money. He saved many Jewish people from having to live in horrible concentration camps, and quite possibly death. Oskar Schindler was a hero to the Jewish people. The entertainment value has to do with keeping the audience interested in the film.

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Schindler’s List, directed by Steven Spielberg and based on the book Schindler’s Ark, is a film that does not portray exact historical accuracy. Oskar Schindler was a real person, but despite the film’s portrayal that he could name the names of every person he wanted to save, he could actually only name the names of those who visited his office frequently. Despite the film’s portrayal that the people who worked in Schindler’s factory were primarily Jewish, in actuality the majority of Schindler’s factory workers were Polish. Schindler’s attempts of befriending the Nazi party is also a false portrayal in the movie as in actuality Schindler already knew these men from working in the German Counterintelligence Services as a spy from 1935 to 1939.

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So he influenced officers when he wanted to take people in and have them work in his factory. Throughout the movie,there are scenes of the horrors of the concentration camps and of the holocaust. Other than just being about him, the movie is a compilation of the stories about the people that he saved. In the end of the movie,he distributed everything in the factory to the jewish workers;he also let

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The most prevalent theme throughout Schindler 's List is the fragility of life. Countless Jews are murdered throughout the film for minor offenses and most for no reason at all. The accurate representation of the liquidation of Krakow also demonstrates how little the Nazis cared for the Jews, people who had once been their neighbors. The interactions between the Nazi Lieutenant Goth and his maid represent the struggle some Nazis had with treating people as animals while their humane morals overpowered them at times. The value of life as determined by Schindler and Goth is diametrically opposed.

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Schindler’s List was a movie that showed us human good and evil in two different powerful, influential men. These two characters help show us how easy it is for us to make a choice of human goodness or human evil. I would like to believe that as human beings we all want what is best for all of us as a whole. We tend to want and believe that if a situation like this were to arise again that we would stray from the large group and help the less fortunate. When it comes down to the decision they choose what will benefit the most people.

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Schindler’s List, directed by Steven Spielberg, is one of the most realistic movies to show the gruesome shock of the concentration camps and torture of Jews. Never the good, always the bad. Even in the midst the devastation of a national genocide, where one race turned against another in hate, good people existed and worked to counteract the hate through love and compassion. Oskar Schindler was one of these people. World War II provided him the means to become a very wealthy and powerful man, yet he did not exploit the Jews like many other businessmen during his time.

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Both Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s list and Polanski’s The Pianist have impacted society understanding of the Holocaust and the unjust treatment of the Jews, not to mention the ungodly acts of the Nazi’s towards the Jewish community. In particular Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List disregarded the social norms of film in the 90’s, approaching a sensitive topic head, disregarding numerous request not, synthesising a film illustrating the actions of Oskar Schindler. Winning seven academy awards, Schindler’s List transformed the education system, instigating the change of the curriculum in the United States from The Holocaust being a minor aspect of World War 2, to teachers educating students about the bleak history of The Holocaust, using The

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People to this day still find horror and beauty in this film, finding this film an extraordinary masterpiece executed by director, Steven Spielberg. Some people do disagree with the images shown in the film, however, as a whole, the entire community who thoroughly enjoys films agree the accuracy of this film that did not hold back any viewing content truly added greatly to the film. Perhaps the most touching reaction came from the place where it all started. The premiere of Schindler’s List in Germany with a room filled with 800 people – Germans and Jews, diplomats and artists, film makers and people who had known Oskar Schindler when he lived there (Whitney, 1994).

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