Oskar Schindler: War Profiteer, Traitor… and Europe’s Greatest Humanitarian
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Some of these videos actually kinda lead me to tears. I always. Schindler's List was about a bad guy and that's only because I never watched it. It's going to be something that I'm going to be watching like real soon like in the next few minutes because I'm going to order on RUclips. It's videos like these that leave me to love y'alls content because things like this people should know it should be common knowledge. Thank you again. And thank you for reading.
When I was in highschool, a Holocaust survivor came to speak. She talked about how she was on a train car full of women, that was sent to Auswitch by mistake. She told how somehow their employer got them out, and they were the first to ever get out of Auswitch alive.
Many years later, when I was watching Schindler's List, it was a shock to realize I'd met one of his workers.
@DR Evil And how many were sent back full with healthy jew people?
Malfehzan exactly
But I thought men women and went to the gas chambers together
Wow!
@@Malfehzan None... normal it a one way ticket.... without employer's power.. which cost money...if not they would be death and he don't had to spend any...
During their escape attempt, the Schindlers were intercepted by some French troops. Oskar produced the letter the workers had written and signed, and when a multi-linguist amongst the group read it, he burst into tears. He then translated it to his commander, who was so touched that he had them released.
Thank you for sharing
I wanna read more on this. Please share a source.
That's an amazing story. Thanks for sharing.
Wait, France had troops in 1945?
@@prateekyadav7679 The book that the film was based on, "Schindler's Ark". Sadly, that's all I have.
Peoples true colors are shown when they are in a position of power.
It's the first time I see this quote in a context opposite from "Power corrupts"
Very true....
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
Abraham Lincoln
Exactly, power doesn't corrupt, it just shows you what they wanted to do all along but lacked the ability to do so.
@@rizieqbejat4363 Lincoln has so many great quotes.
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely
He's proof that even with flaws, we are capable of having deep humanity within us.
Everyone has a dark side
@@MountandbladeSteppeNomad Not the point I was making.
taliesin halliday nah, everyone is capable of doing the right thing, it all comes down to if the CHOOSE to do it.
And absolute Atrocities. The line is very thin.
And sadly, today, governments will make a complete background check as well as a full psychology exam on CEO's, government officials, military officers and enlisted as well as educators before they give them a contract, because they can't risk another Schindler from happening again.
•There will be generations because of you.
•I didn’t do enough.
•You did so much.
ThIs pin! This pin could have saved one child! (cries)
9000 and counting...he may not have saved them all, but he saved all he could and for that he is assured a place in the hearts and minds of all the generations to come.
Houdini that’s a dickish comment.
That scene gets me chocked every time.
Man, gives chills to remember...just imagining a family tree and how it increasingly blows up with each succeeding generation
Bonus Fact:
Amon Goeth's daughter grew up not knowing how evil her father was. She learned it in detail from the movie.
Also Amon's descendant turned out to be Black.
My great grandfather was part of the SS Leibstandarte. My Grandfather took my Dad to the cinema to watch Schindler's List when it came out, he couldn't sit through it, he left the cinema crying, not being able to bear seeing what his (estranged) father was part of.
@@cavyq It's a hard movie to watch and I have no ties to any of the people. To think humans could do what they did and that other humans had to endure what the Jews had to endure. I can't imagine what it would be like if I had ties.
@@cavyq The Leibstandarte was actually one of the divisions that weren´t used that heavily in the Holocaust. They were thought of as an elite unit, so they were used on the front lines extensively, and suffered a devastating amount of casualties. As far as SS membership goes, serving in the Leibstandarte is about the most honorable way possible. Still not good, but definitely not as bad as the guards in concentration camps, who were either foreign nationals (Ukraianians and Poles mostly) or came mainly from the Totenkopf division.
@@jirkazalabak1514 True, he wasn't in direct contact with concentration camps, which my family later confirmed. He still lived a (too) long life as a nazi (under French occupation). He never changed. Wouldn't call anything he did "honorable" as he knew exactly what he was fighting for and made efforts to do as much as he could...
“I hated the brutality, the sadism, and the insanity of Nazism. I just couldn’t stand by and see people destroyed. I did what I could, what I had to do, what my conscience told me I must do. That’s all there is to it. Really, nothing more” Oskar Schindler
Oskar the goat 🗿
Oskar Schindler was a very flawed human being, who fulfilled the absolute capacity in all human beings for good. He failed at everything else in his life, but where he succeeded, it mattered the most. Nothing else in his life that he could have accomplished would have been as important as the one thing he did right. God bless his soul for eternity ❤
Exactly, people are fallible. Somehow the masses think everything is black or white.
don't agree with your opinion, beg to differ!
@@rodrigoodonsalcedocisneros9266 many shades of grey
I disagree, success of his own family would have been more important, the most important "work you will ever do is within the walls of your own home" DAVID O MCKAY
@@bobhappy4917 How many thousands of people's lives have you saved? Get back to me when you've achieved that level of success
That last quote always makes me so emotional. He could’ve done nothing and ran off a wealthy man. Instead, he gave it all up to save people - a beautiful act to say the least.
There's only one in a million people like Oskar Schindler.
"Stern, if this factory ever produces a shell that can actually be fired, I'll be very unhappy."
Great line...great scene...great movie.
The movie is filled to the brim w/such lines & moments. Two really stand out for me. One was Isaak Stern, played brilliantly by Ben Kingsley, coming into "Herr Direkter Schindler"'s office, stammering out "do you have any money? Anything I don't know about?" To which Schindler - another star turn by Liam Neeson, murmurs "am I broke?"
The other - which still never fails to get me bawling - is when Stern gives Schindler the gold ring made from Mr. Jareth's gold bridgework. And Schindler loses it. "I could've done more. I could've... I spent so much money. I wasted so much money! This badge...why did I keep it? It's solid gold! Goth would've given me RM 10,000 for it easily. A thousand lives! At least RM 5,000 easily! 500 lives for sure! I could've done more, Isaak, I could've done more!"
@@scotcarr3390 His guilt and desperation when he laments not giving more just breaks my heart. That line sticks with me.
I don't think that the line is realistic. I can understand manufacturing shells with defective detonators in the projectile and perhaps not being caught out. But manufacturing items that would not fit the gun or not launch the projectile is going to end in hanging rather quickly I'd say. Plenty of shells built for the Nazis under slave labour conditions did not explode on arrival but generally they would all fire.
@@F_Tim1961 Honestly, given the logistical situation of the Germans, even in 1941, I think that in 1945, they had no idea what was happening. They were just happy that any shells arrived at all. The shells were supplied by smaller private ventures all over the Reich, many powered by slave labor. This resulted in low quality and efficiency. It was a horrible, extremely messy system. The chances that Schindler´s shells would be traced back to him were pretty slim IMO.
The scene at the end of "Schindler's List" when they are putting the rocks on Schindler's memorial stone... every time I see that movie, I cannot hold in my tears, and that's the scene that gets me every time. One of the best films ever made, in my opinion.
For me its the part where he breaks down as he's fleeing for the Soviets. Its truly haunting how he regretted not being able to save as many as he'd like.
It was a masterpiece, 2nd best film of the 90s for me.
@@ML3180 he wanted to save them all. He couldn't.
Did you realise that the actors were accompanied by the actual Schindler Jew they played in the film.
Spielberg refused to make money on the film saying it would be “blood money.”
Easily the most powerful video you have done, Simon. As a Shindlerjuden decendant, my family thanks you for acknowledging Oscar Schindler. I would not be alive were it not for him.
Thank you for existing
Thank you for sharing this. It is on my top 5 bucket list to visit his grave someday. This movie and his story touches my soul to it's core. I'm glad your family survived. Much respect.
God bless you and yours. Happy Hanukkah.
It's a truly amazing thing how one man's decision can literally cause descendants to be born. If Truman hadn't decided to drop A-bombs on Japan, I seriously doubt I'd be alive today.
@Roy Wilkowski Even after the Schindler thing... I still feel I dodged another bullet every time I think about my Dad's Army unit that got called up for Vietnam and at the last minute, was told to stand down. Amazing how all that works
His old factory in Krakow has been turned into an impressive, and well researched museum. I visited it about 7 years ago when I visited Poland for the first time. Well worth a visit, if it is still there.
Should still be there, I was there in 2019 :)
It is, my Brother just visited a couple of weeks ago!
The inner buildings of the compud have all been transformed into a museum od contemporaty arts and the rest is a museum dedicated to his legacy
Just visited there today, it’s still there! Definitely worth the visit 👍🏻
It's still there and it's actually the most visited museum in Cracow. I've been there on January or February so out of touristic season and it was full of people, especially young Germans which i find really good.
My favourite scene in the film is when he saves the children from the concentration camp arguing how he needs them due to their small fingers to polish 9mm shells. (I may have the calibre wrong) You just really get the sense of how he suddenly thought of that off the cuff to save those defenceless children and how frantic he had to think to save them. I get emotional just thinking about it.
Edit* - the third comment gave us the answer ref. shell calibre. Can other people please stop commenting it? We don’t need another 30 people telling us.
.45 mm casing
I think it was 20mm anti-aircraft flakgun cases. But yes, I can vividly remember that scene too.
@@richardsanchez9190 That's not a thing and would be really really tiny if it was.
@@julianwells4055 "how else am I supposed to polish the inside of a
.45mm shell casing?" Now I'm not sure if you mean a
.45mm shell casing doesn't exist or what but that is a direct quote from the movie. You're welcome to check it out.
@@julianwells4055 Netflix with 32:03 minutes left. There it is.
Let's be straight it is not a single deed. We are talking about a concerted effort of 2-3 years. Making sure there is enough food, clothing, shielding/hiding them from the people who would kill them. Knowing that if you make one false move you and everyone who worked for him could be killed. That is a long long time to be walking that tightrope.
That is incredibly brave and hardcore.
And not just that, he was so brave-faced as to lie and manipulate the officers right to his face who had more power over him in terms of positions and yet he managed
@@morisakarleign3014 Oh for sure. He had to finesse the right people and one false move, the tiniest mistake and it is done.
At any time he could have decided this is too much stress and bailed or just plain walked away to leave them to fend for themselves but he didn't. To say this was a "single act" improperly diminishes the feat he accomplished.
@@anthonyju6392i visited Schindler's factory turned into museum right now. While visiting you can watch the short documentary where Poles and Jews working for him talk about he protected them. For instance every time there was Nazi control planned in the factory he gave a head up to hide the elder Jews somewhere so they wouldn't see them. Also he greeted Nazi with finest cheeses, chocolate, wine and other fine alcohol so every time they were to drunk at the end to have a tour and actually control the factory. He never talked to Jews, never really interacted with them but walked around and that was enough for Jews to keep their sanity. The most amazing thing is that not even one Jew was killed for no reason while working for him. Everyone that died was actually by natural causes so that by itself says everything about the man.
Just think of many unnamed hero at that time who never had time to document their good deeds... and never got rewarded for that reason.
Ill rather live a bum knowing i saved lives than live a king knowing i did nothing
@@numbdigger9552 I think we'd all find that we wouldn't
@@funnyguy5746 that's you. Clearly you have never had to live with the burden of knowing you did something wrong, your conscience knocking, constantly reminding you of your evil.
@@numbdigger9552 are you saying these monsters felt badly about what they did to the jews? What kind of person can do what hitlers men did.daily?????
@@patriciacolombini6567 Probably about one third of all of humanity could? About that seemed to be the number in Germany, and since they weren't a different species that same should be true everywhere else. One could probably look up the numbers of the Rwandan genocide to compare with a more recent example.
He had the balls to be a human being in the midst of monsters. Even more than that....he had the balls to be righteous, when it wouldve been so much easier to be evil. May he rest in peace and always be remembered for a blessing.
He is in heaven ❤️
@@jeanandre6998 I’m pagan myself, and have a slightly different afterlife, but I agree with your message. He deserves eternal peace and contentment for his righteousness actions.
@@stingerjohnny9951 weirdo
@Sanctus Paulus 1962 Nope, why do you ask?
@@stingerjohnny9951 Some people have a one-sided view of worshipping a god.
Talk about humanitarian. You can buy shoes, clothes, and houses for a person. But to buy actual human beings to keep them for being murdered and going broke because of it is another level of humanitarian. This man is literal hero
I have been to Israel and visited Schindler's grave. It was one of the highlights of my life to have done that.
Get a hobby if thats actually true
@@dave8323 Mount Zion is the very place in which King David was buried.
I too have been to Schindler,s grave, and it was a highlight of my life. Ignore Dave. He clearly doesn,t understand anything.
@@dave8323 what do you call a highlight?? I’ve walked the battlefields of the Somme and paeschendale that was a genuine highlight. Is that a highlight by your lofty standards???
I remember watching that movie when it came out. It's stayed with me to this day. It's not only a wonderful story, it's a true cinematic masterpiece. It was beautifully shot and I love the fact it was in black/white. They only time color was used, it was for something important, such as the little girl's red coat. The ending scene with the Jews he saved paying respect was a beautiful tribute to Oskar.
That ending scene makes me cry EVERY TIME I WATCH IT, and just now, you mentioning it. "Blessed are the Merciful for they will obtain Mercy".
@roger james hunter That's why you're an INCEL, don't have a girlfriend and NEVER WILL. Women find you SOOO BORING. (Yep, "soft-core" porno on your channel, a "GREAT MASTURBATOR") XD
roger james hunter “You made out during Schindler’s List?!”
-Seinfeld
@@thebrocialist8300 XD, it's funny because Seinfeld is JEWISH AND Nazi Germany is in the dust bin of History and Israel exists!
My Wife at the time and I saw it at the theatres when it came out. The place was packed. When the movie ended, people were walking out and no one was talking. We were all just so stunned and shaken.
His life is a reminder about how everyone can be redeemed if they make that choice. I often wonder what made him change. He was risking everything doing this, including his life. His flaws makes him the best of heroes, though - one we can look at and see all are capable of great actions.
One can only guess, but i imagine things changed when he was in the thick of it. It´s one thing seeing numbers and atrocities on paper and another eeing them with your own eyes. He hired jews out of greed, but when he came to know and see them and see their suffering his humanity shown through and he saw that the wealth he made was on the life of people not numbers.
Rubbish, he wouldn’t have to redeem himself if he wasn’t a part of the problem to begin with. Nazi is a Nazi, he was partly responsible for the invasion of Poland and the start of the WW2.
@@indiebekonn how was he responsible for that?
I don’t think he ever changed, he was the same man the entire time. He was a rascal, an opportunist, a gambler and a bit of a con man all his life, but he also had humanity and decency…and balls of steel. His negative qualities allowed him to be in a position to do extraordinary good, which, as he described “The Jews were being exterminated, I had no choice.” I don’t see any contradiction, and his later life shows he never changed. Definitely one of my heroes.
In reality ! he risked everything by not doing it.
18:22 - The Irony: In order to achieve his full potential of being a good guy, he had to be a villain first. Anubis must've had fits when Schindler showed up.
weight his sin.. in alot of culture.. he still going to be punish but people who love him would gift his way to somewhere less painful...
I don't think so; I truly think Ma'at's feather would have been far heavier than Schindler's heart!
I think Anubis called in that day. "Nope, gonna let Bast cover my shift."
@@andrewames247 I agree. Schindler’s heart was weighed when he had to choose between letting the Jews in his factory starve or to provide for them out of his own pocket. His heart was found to be the lighter of the two.
1098 lives saved
8500 people alive today as descendants because of his efforts.
not a perfect man with a complicated life and history but this man was the hero everyone should know.
And of the roughly three thousand Palestinian people killed in the military attack in Gaza named Caste Lead, I wonder how many wonderful humans could have come in to this world. possibly 23,700 if your calculations are correct. Schindler allowed the creation of 8500 new humans on this earth, and the IDF eliminated 23,700. potential new ones. Caste Lead was only one of many military strikes of its kind in the last twenty years.
Why 1098, I thought it's 1100?
,@@xiaoxiao5088 I think 1100 comes from rounding 1098 because 1100 is easier to say than 1098 or something I know I'm wrong but it's just a guess
@@xiaoxiao5088 1098 plus tax.
And those 8,500 will have children of their own. Whole generations will live because of him.
I saw Schindler's List once. I found it so sadly upsetting I doubt that I'll watch it again but once was enough. Never mind that the film wasn't entirely accurate. If Schindler's story teaches us anything it's that redemption is almost always possible. Schindler lost his fortune and his lavish lifestyle but he traded it for immortality. What he did deserves to be remembered always.
no movie based on true story is entirely accurate, drunkard
Best description I found for the movie is it’s one of the most brilliantly made movies ever, and few people watch it more than once.
same. I barely remember it, i watched it when i was a teenager it came on HBO, i'll never watch it again though. I can't deal with holocaust stuff anymore, I lived in Israel for a few years and never went to Yad Vashem, i'm depressed enough thanks
God what a beautiful way to describe it.
It's true as well. Heroes never die, for to be remembered is to be immortal.
I was 18 years old when it came out and I watched it together with a few of my female friends. It is a brilliant movie but I left the cinema in tears. Deeply moving.
While I was born nineteen years after he died and, so far as I'm aware, no one in my family are related to the Schindlerjuden, Schindler did shape my life in certain ways. The first time I saw the film was with my mother, stepmother and sister, and I was shook to the core. On my trip to Israel the following summer, I read the book Spielberg used as the basis for the film. Well before I visited Yad Vashem, I'd decided to do a history major as well as an English major when I got to college, with a focus on WWII and the Holocaust. That same summer, I also got a ring with the same inscription on Schindler's ring in Hebrew: "He who saves a life, it is as if he has saved a world entire." It's a reminder that, while no one is perfect or entirely good, they are capable of doing great things and changing the world for the better.
It's also why, despite what he did during the early years of the Nazi regime, Oskar Schindler is still one of my biggest heroes.
@Rami Ungar What a wonderful story! It just goes to show, that while evil deeds can have a life after - so can the good. And, it reminds us that people are rarely all one thing or another. But, an imperfect man, who had an epiphany and did the best he could to save lives, and who died years before your birth, had a critical effect on your life. Thank you so much, for posting this. :)
Lovely story, truly.
You really have to think about it. Only by being a money grubber at the beginning did no one in Nazi Party suspect him of harboring or liking Jews. Quite a paradox which allowed him to save over a thousand. Sad that he had such a sad ending, but really he wasn't a businessman, just a profiteer who really couldn't make it in the real world. But for one specific purpose in his life, he saved many lives. The right person in the right place at the right time, that was all that matter.
Rami Ungar God will not judge you by your imperfections but by the love you shared with his children in need.
@@ChallengeGypsyboy Someone's a bit insecure.
I managed a holocaust museum for a time and we hosted one of the people that he saved. At the time she was only a child and he saved both her and her mother, who was a cleaner for one of the SS commanders, from being beaten and then sent to death. She did a talk for the little museum, which was packed with people coming to see her, it was a very moving story.
A profiteer of slave labor and made himself very wealthy as such. He gave everything up at the end to save lives of innocents being oppressed. Oscar Schindler was a very good man, he died poor years later with the charity of the saved Jews and their families paying his bills. He found his own humanity amongst the horrors of war and genocide! Rest In Peace Oscar❤️
I watched that movie in 10th grade when we discussed WW2, the violin music and seeing what happened in Krakow got me
If that got ya, you should watch the Pianist. It's a true story about a Jewish pianist that avoided capture thought the entire war. It's quite heart breaking
I watched it once... and that is all I ever shall need. Not that it's not good. It's excellent, TOO excellent at portraying one of the most horrifying points in history.
I also watched the movie in 10h grade, it was hard to watch. the scene near the end when he is lamenting that he could have done more, that breaks me. I want to watch it again, I just can't bring myself to do it.
@@tigerfanfrv This. I went to an all boys high school. We watched the movie in class. This very scene at the end caused at least a third of the class to visibly wipe their faces. Most of the rest were just better at hiding it.
Lmao fr you an ez catch
A week ago today, I became a father. Never has the sanctity of human life been so real to me as since she was born. I've been obsessed with the Holocaust this week since I fell a need to understand how people might kill people en masse. I mean I know how it all happened and why, but even 8 decades years later, it's so hard to come to terms with the idea it happened. Schindler was a truly redeemed soul and a hero.
Congratulations on your new baby!!! It is very difficult to imagine people being persecuted and systematically murdered. And, the fact that the German people looked the other way, or turned people in, is mind boggling. There were some people that risked their lives to save the Jews, and they truly are heroes. I read everything that I can on the Holocaust, and the war. It’s a passion of mine! I don’t think that our children are being taught much or anything about it. We can never forget that this happened. Never.
If there is a heaven. Mr. Schindler is most certainly there.
YES
And his wife.
Yes he must be there because on earth he didn't got some reward for helping 1000 Jews, perhaps it should had been better cared of by Gypsies after the war if he had helped 1000 of them.
@@danilo16410 You did not watch the whole video, the Jews DID help him. So, what are you talking about?
absolutely
I was a student at UT Austin in the early 90s when two people on that list came and spoke on campus. They had met during their time at the factory and married each other after the war. It was an amazing thing to listen to their experiences.
Schindler’s story is particularly motivating because it shows regardless of what you were in the past, you can still become a hero if you step up against inhumanity.
Shindler's List and Saving Private Ryan were the only R-rated films I saw as part of my high school education. Both are excellent films, both are arguably Spielberg's finest works, but only one moved me. Knowing that the real-life man really was as dedicated to his mission to save lives is a legitimate beacon of hope for me in this dark world.
23:20 that's amazing that they took care of him until his death. It is also amazing that he was able to get them out of that death camp in time. I feel like the allies should have been more sympathetic towards him its pathetic that we allowed actual war criminals into our borders with open arms and we even gave them gifts and money to do so... But he was automatically denied because of his association even though he was beloved by thousands of Jewish people.
At the end, when he was lamenting how his possessions could have saved more people, I bawled my eyes out.
I actually respect him more knowing the real story instead of the hero that's been built up by popular history. He shows that even pretty scummy people can rise to the occasion under the right circumstances. Warts and all, he should be remembered with respect.
"All that evil needs to succeed is that good men do nothing," has been my favorite quote of all time for the last 30 years. But I don't think it originates with Edmund Burke.
A quick search reveals....John Stuart Mill said in 1867: “Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.”
F 10th
What they ought to say is; evil succeeds” lord of war
There are some other personalities similar to Oscar Schindler that deserve recognition. There was a Japanese Diplomat in I believe Austria. There was also a German diplomat in Nanking. Both people worthy of recognition.
and there was a swedish diplomat that saved 70,000 Hungarian Jews by buying properties and claiming it for diplomatic reasons only to stuff the buildings full of people until he could sneak them out of the country. he had no official backing by his home country but he did it anyways.
I remember reading that even as he was being taken away to jail on the train a Japanese diplomat was still issuing visas to save as many Jews as he could. as awful as humanity can be there are some that will still help people no matter what.
@@nubreed13 Japan's ambassador to Lithuania, if memory serves.
There was a Salvadoran and Portuguese😅 who gathered papers to save Jewish lives from the Nazis. I have read the history concerning the gentlemen. 😮
@nubreed13 Raoul Wallenberg from Sweden, and the entire nation of Denmark.
Ralph Fiennes was top-notch in the Steven Spielberg feature film.
He was fantastic!! He eminated evil! Must have been taxing as an actor. To play a total bastard!!
Yes while watching the film i had to remind myself Finnes was an actor playing that human cancer an not really him
Until The Reader I had a very hard time watching him in any other movie without hating his guts, because I could only think of him as Amon Goth. I read that because he was so convincing in his portrayal, some of the actual survivors on set who had known Goth got very upset, and he went out of his way to speak with them at length when he was out of costume, and to express his sincere sympathy to them. He told them he himself had a difficult time with the role, but he wanted the world to understand what a monster Goth was, so he tried to portray him as accurately as possible
Bill Whittaker Grand Budapest Hotel is one of his best roles, too.
His first major role and being typecasted can make or break your acting career. A true devoted professional at heart.
1:25 - Chapter 1 - Brave new world
4:25 - Chapter 2 - Marriage & misery
7:40 - Chapter 3 - The dictator & the spy
11:00 - Chapter 4 - Winter for poland
13:15 - Chapter 5 - The factory
15:20 - Chapter 6 - He who saves one life
19:05 - Chapter 7 - Saves the world
21:50 - Chapter 8 - How a hero dies
Fun fact. The Krakow Apartment seen in the movie - is the actual Apartment. I know someone who knows the woman that lived there. Spielberg had to show up in person and knock on the door, before she believed it wasn'øt a gag.
From enemy to hero. What a great redemption. Threw away all he had to save those people and it was all worth it. His story will forever be remembered and honored.
Schindler's story is so compelling precisely because he was so flawed.
Loved this. I’ve been fascinated with his story for years. Schindlers List is one of my favourite movies of all time, and likewise the book which I read some years later. I never knew until after my uncle died, but his father was one of the Schindler Jews. They would travel to Jerusalem together every year to pay their respects at Zion. Going back and watching the film and this video knowing that is seriously powerful stuff. Everyone deserves a second chance in life, everyone has a shot at redemption.
Schindlers List, what a performance by Liam Neeson and Spielberg behind the scenes.
don't forget Ben Kingsley and Ralph Fiennes.
A fine film.
Ralph Fiennes kills his performance, he made that movie.
@@jonezmontenegro3916 apparently when one of the Schindler Jews visited the set she was so traumatized by Ralph Fiennes accurate and terrifying portrayal she had to be escorted out and comforted...and Fiennes felt awful that he couldn't be the one to comfort her
I just want to thank you for telling me about my ancestor, I only heard about him from my father and I haven't seen the movie yet so this is almost completely new to me. I find it nice to know more about my family tree.
You're ancestor Oskar was a stunning, amazing hero of the ages. A true, real German if his nationality, then someone Rommel would have been so proud of.
“What is better? To be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?” ~ Paarthurnax, Skyrim
I went to his factory in Poland it was incredible he is such a hero
Jack O. Saving people in the face of certain death is pretty damn heroic to me
HEROIC
We watched Schindler's list at our school and when it was over I heard people saying "Why did we have to watch that? we could have been doing something important" And it made me very angry.
Edit: Reading this 6 months later really makes if feel like it belongs on R/Iamverysmart so I will say I worded this very wrong. This did in fact happen like a month before I saw the video and it just set me off. When I watched this video it reminded me of it and I just kinda wanted to share this fact. but yes I did sound very snobby and annoying reading this again
Edit 2: I will also add though I might've been in that attitude about the R/Iamverysmart while making this thought because no one in our class knew anything about History and when we got into WW2 I knew more than others so I was probably riding high on believing I was smarter than anyone else in the class so idk maybe I meant it the way it was wrote but anyway I've changed now, the highschool depression hit hard bruh
Bravo! for your anger.
How old? I can see kids not getting the movie, its black and white to start and there is no hero with mucles or costume or some super natural power to save the day.
too be honest, its until a person becomes more experience to understand that Schindler in 1940 propely archieved everything he could have imaged yet in the end he risked everything including his own life just to save a handful of people he did not know.
I am not sure if I could have done the same.
sicily72 9th & 10th graders or Freshman and Sophomores
With that comment, as the teacher , I would have assigned each student to read, The Gulag Archipelago, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Something that should be required reading.
@@enigma2407 I'm from England and aren't too sure what a sophomore is, but I know that they are old enough not to be spouting crap like that. Pure ignorance.
That’s actually a good survival tactic. Befriend the monster.
That made binge watching your channel more than worth the sleep deprivation. A heart felt thanks.
To me Oskar is both someone to look up to and also a source of great sadness. If he was able to stand up and save so many, why didn't everyone else?
Many people did. They just didn’t have a movie made about them.
Maybe because they would kill you the second they realize you were trying to save them
Please do one about Roaul Wallenberg. He was also a great humanitarian, saving hundreds of thousands of jews.
Yeah, that would be interesting. Whatever exactly happened to him after the war, his story is extremely tragic.
I actually did a project on him in my Holocaust and Human Behavior class in my last year of highschool
I’m sad to say I didn’t know to whom you were referring, but having done some research, I wanted to thank you for this comment and my subsequent education.
@@wieldwords You might wanna look into Carl Lutz then. He doesn't get mentioned often and is relatively unknown to the public. He is responsible for (one of) the largest rescue operations of Jews in WW2 and he inspired Raoul Wallenberg to start a similar operation.
He was pushed into greatness by the ones he saved. And just think he did 1098 miracles for those people.
Thank you. I am Slovak and the facts related to the situation in Czechoslovakia in 1920-30´s that your provided in quite a detail are correct. That´s not easy at all because the situation back then was very complex and you can easily get misled by different sources so great job.
Brilliant performances by all in Schindler's List. Until The Reader I had a very hard time watching Ralph Fiennes in any other movie without hating his guts, because I could only think of him as Amon Goth. I read that because he was so convincing in his portrayal, some of the actual survivors on set who had known Goth got very upset, and he went out of his way to speak with them at length when he was out of costume, and to express his sincere sympathy to them. He told them he himself had a difficult time with the role, but he wanted the world to understand what a monster Goth was, so he tried to portray him as accurately as possible
If you hate the guts of an actor for the role he played in a film or a play, you might need some psychological help with that.
At your age, and you cannot separate role playing from real life you must also be terrified of the Hulk or the Joker.
Schindler’s List. A movie I could only ever watch once. Yet a movie that moved me and made a mark on my soul like no other. And the end of this video moved me once again.
Thank you, Simon, for this biographical treatment of Oskar Schindler’s life story.
On "He who saves one life, saves the entire world" made me misty-eyed
Schindler says to Fiennes character: "Not killing them. That's the real power!"
And then the fucker shoots the kid in the head after 2 decision shots
I think this shows how people really can change, he wasn’t an angel. But he truly did change his ways, he saved lives
schindler started the war as a gangster and ended the war as a saint pretty much sums him up
I differ: Oskar was an angel to 8500 people.
The world needs more people like Oskar
It’s his flaws and how he was not the perfect Hollywood hero but how his humanity came to the fore when the world was turning to Hell and his friends and workers were faced with unimaginable suffering that makes him so much a man to admire.
6:00 his wife was someone "to come home to when he couldn't find a better offer" THAT'S COLD LOL
to be more exact,he is buried at the lutheran cemetery on mount zion,near jerusalem old city.I visited the place many times to pay respects.nice job fellas!
when the world need him the most, when there was no name to call. I love how a man with so many flaws saves the world
Loves this! Thank you! You should also look at Jose Arturo Castellanos. He saved over 25 000 Jews but for some reason he is hardly ever recognized.
He literally has a movie and book about him.
my neighbor is a decendant of schindlers list and I am so grateful for everything he's done!
Wow! Your neighbor is a living testament to the good that one man’s tenacity to save lives will perpetuate through many generations to come.
So if your neighbor was a complete jerk that annoyed you every day...
I remember when the movie came out. They played it at the theater of the Army post I was stationed on. By order of the Post Commander, any who wanted to go see it were given time off to do so and they didn't charge us a dime.
Never heard a theater so quiet as during the darker parts of that film, nor any group laugh so loud as when O.S. pulled the wool over those nazis' eyes. Hell of a fine film.
This is by far the best biography that I've truly enjoyed. Great work, Simon.
Simon, just when I think that your videos can't get any better, I encounter a video such as this. You've a way of presenting material which is absolutely captivating. I've watched quite a few of your videos now, and this video has got to be within the TOP 5 best ever made videos on RUclips; and trust me, without owning a TV, I watch a lot of youtube clips when I get back from work or at the weekends. I like how you draw parallels and highlight contrasts with the film Schindlers List. What an excellent channel.
That's cool that the people he saved helped him out in return when he was in need! If he had saved me or my loved ones, I would invite him to come and live with me for as long as he wanted! It's amazing how some people can be so awful and others can be so good! 😊
March 17th, 1942 was a dark day in history indeed: the Belzec death camp opened and serial killer John Gacy was born.
Serial killers aren't born.
@@argh1989 They r. Demons travel via blood from ancestors.
@@nukapuka LMAO at believing in demons because you're ignorant enough to not believe humans are sadly capable of horrifying things. Explain all the priest/pastors/religious people who rape boys? If they're demons they wouldn't be able to be near "holy" objects much less "in a house of god"?
@@jonhall2274 Holliness is given to u by the Holy Spirit once u opt 4 Jesus Christ. Nothing to do with priests or house of God. Satan dominates that.
@@nukapuka no,
At about the same time as Schindler’s List was released, I had a holiday job as a porter in a hotel in the Black Forest. One of the customers staying was a former JU-88 pilot. We had a long talk about which I have written. He mentioned Oskar Schindler as one of the few Germans who hadn’t been completely evil.
Just when I think that I completely hate people I see something like this and it restores my faith in humanity.
Damn, that was some dramatic narrative! In the best way, I mean!! Reading history as you read a phone book is what made many people look down on it. But not you, sir. Not you! You were able to turn a historical series of event and explicitly (and implicitly) called us to think and reflect on the human condition.
Keep up the excellent work!
Great story. What a life he led, from a rich playboy and ruthless businessman and Nazi, to a hero saving over a thousand Jews from concentration camps, to a man alone dying in poverty.
I have just subscribed to your new channel. How on earth do you lot make so much content???
I watched that behind scenes video you did that was excellent so I think I have an understanding of the work you all put into each episode, not that I am complaining I am hooked....
...just please don't burn out!
I know there is a whole team behind each episode but I would love to see a week in the life episode or miniseries following Simon. If you didn't think it was too intrusive I think it would be fascinating and from marketing pov it opens a lot of different opportunities for your BDM to go after (I am in sales if you can't tell lol).
Anyway great work to you ALL.
@Daniel C God no, I don't want that either, I barely have enough time to watch all the content already :)
...I really liked the video they did based on a "day in the life" and just thought a one off sequel a week in the life would be interesting, apart from all the great content I am very interested in the process that goes in behind them.
*Regardless of his shady past to which we are all guilty of at the end Oskar Schindler saved thousands human souls may he rest in peace!*
Not all heroes wear capes
I teard up a little. Wonderful job on this one Biographics. Your small team grows better with each successive video.
I only hope when my time comes to make a choice like Oskar made, I will have his courage. A terrible young man, but a great man.
Finally a biographic about this very interesting individual
Trivia: Liam Neeson wasn't Spielberg's first choice for Oskar Schindler. Spielberg's first choice was the late Bruno Ganz.
Pretty ironic considering Ganz's most famous role
Wow thx for that info
i cant picture any other actor in the role after seein Neeson
He's one of my favs an did a great job
Did he win an oscar for the role??
@@ajajajaj624 nice pun
Harrison Ford was also considered for Schindler.
Physically Schindler was a big man like Neeson. Ganz was a fabulous actor but of small stature, it wouldn´t have worked for me
May his soul rest in peace 🙏
Peace for his soul that could clearly never be found on this Earth after the war.
As I expected, Simon's video goes deep into the story. I just wish that RUclips had the option to give two thumbs-up. Thank you Simon.
This was moving, very proud of this man
He was a deeply flawed man who made every mistake a man could make However when it mattered he did the right thing and as a result he is remembered with incredible reverence.
This is one of the best of Simon's videos. It brought tears to my eye.
Here ara some ideias for bios!
*Antonio Salazar (dictator of portugal)
*Franz Joseph (ruller of autrio-hungary)
*Gorbachev of ussr
*Sigmund freud
*Andrew Jackson (the famous and controversial president of the us)
Thanks! Love your channel
Thomas Andrews -The Designer of the Titanic
Edward Smith - Captain of the Titanic
J. Bruce Ismay - Chairman of the White Stare Line
Reason why I list a bunch of people from Titanic was because, I was expecting him to put at least on of these people on April 14 lol
Definitely Andrew Jackson
I’d dig a frued video
Freud
They just came out with a Freud video!
I have to admit that I have not been able to see that entire film. I remember the end.
I was surprised that his fate was known. I remember a film with Richard Chamberlain... I was given a bad summary of that film.
The lesson of Herr Schindler is that above all, we must remember our humanity. That is what truly makes us men.
Very informative. I've always wondered how it really happened and I still think, in the end, he was a good man.
What a sad, sad tale. He did a great thing in a time of great evil, but paid for it in the end. But those he saved remembered him, and took care of him when he needed it. Still sad though, so much misery.
It is the complexity of Schindler's personality makes me believe anyone can show humanity at anytime of his/her life. be a hero or simply do the right thing.
Schindler is an example of how even extremely flawed people can perform amazing feats.
Having already seen this, I decided I ought to watch Schindler’s List. I cannot recommend it enough, I’ve never seen a film as powerful as that was. I also have to appreciate Simon for trying to cover this very touchy subject and giving a historical analysis of Schindler
Yes, an absolute masterwork of a film. The use of light and shadow was spectacular, the acting, set detail, music, editing, just top notch all the way.
This story gets me every time. It may be humanities best story.
Wow.....I saw Schindler's List yesterday and you post a video about him today. :D
Have you got an Alexa in your room lol?
The book is called Schindler's Ark and we read it in school. It was written by an Australian and it haunted me for years. The movie was also excellent. What remarkably complex creatures human are.
I like his summary at the end. It is not always the goodie to shoes person who ends up doing the right thing but the amoral man, the schemer or the man who has flaws. I think that is why people like the Game of Thrones so much. It gives you sympathy for each character you could relate to, not all were morally bad from their point of view. Hollywood always paints the picture of one person being good and the other bad but like he mentioned history is rarely black and white. War hero's are often butchers as well. What some view as barbarians were actually more clean and sophisticated than they appear, the vikings for instance. Oskar Schindler made the right choice at the right time.