Schindler's List : Oskar Schindler a thank you

Oskar Schindler a thank you

I haven't see Schindler's list in at least 5 years, it's not a movie you can watch too often, yet it leaves indelible imagery. I saw the poster of the movie the other day, the poster of the little girl and Schindler holding hands. One of the most haunting and beautifully conceived images, because it never happened in the movie, at least it never happen physically, its more of a mental, spiritual projection of Schindler holding the hand of this beautiful little girl the Nazis brutally murdered and dumped into the ground. This Little girl and her death represents the absolute nadir of humanities fall during the Nazi years, that they could so unfeeling kill a child represent the beast inside, the ugly chattering, gibbering beast.

Schindler on the other hand represents the potential of man. He was never anything but a grifter , a con-man looking for a mark, he had no faith in anything or anyone except himself. He was a man it seems who knew no mother, had no childhood, was thrown screaming into the world, he seemed to have no family or way home. He conned the Nazis as easily as he conned everybody else. His only love was the love of money.

And Then....He saw the little girl wandering, wandering lonely as a cloud, the little girl stirred something in his soul, she stirred a paternal feeling. If Schindler had a daughter it could have been one that looked like that. How it happened that Schindler decided to go for a ride that day, maybe it was the idea of the women he was with, one f the many playthings in his wandering purposeless life, however it happened he chanced upon a murder in progress, which is odd, since murderers tend to keep their crimes hidden from the eyes of witnesses. The Nazis in their perverted lust to kill and rob had made a mistake and allowed a witness to view their atrocity.

Whatever unseen hand guided Schindler to this scene, knew more about the heart and courage of Schindler then he knew himself. Inside all of us is good and bad, there is no totally good person just like there is no totally evil person. The German who became SS murderers had families and little children of their own, yet they allowed the words of a psychopathic madmen to bring out the absolute worse that the world has ever seen or will ever see.

Men with families, the Sons of Mothers, educated human beings, murdered children, they murdered pregnant women, they murdered children in front of their mothers, in a days time, they committed crimes so shocking the World has still not or will it ever recover from. And many were the hours of the days. they worked in the high Sun of Summer and cut down people as though they were stalks of corn. tireless they were in their evil

The shame they brought to the world of humanity can never be expunged.

Their is a psychic line of demarkation that begins and end with the Holocaust, where it was shown the full potential of man's capacity to do evil. Mr Spielberg if anything watered down the events, he shot them in black and white and from far away, the evil of the holocaust is too concentrated, it burns the soul.It burns at the Heart. So it must be diluted if Men and Women are to look upon it.

Did the German people suddenly go insane and all at the same time. Its as good an explanation as any. When you are murdering children, you have given up your right to be called human, and when you let others do it and say nothing you are just as guilty.

There are many heroes of the Holocaust, in that time of total war and horror, when laws and jurisdictions were wiped out, many stood up to the Nazis in thousand of ways, and many took in Jews and hid them...and yet others turned in their jewish neighbors, Like the women who turned in Anne Franks family,....what was her reason. There is a switch inside us that can be flipped for good or evil and the crucible of fear and times of fear work upon the raw nerves of the weak.

Without the heroes, then the Holocaust is nothing but an unspeakable horror, a chapter in the book of man-the worst chapter. It's the heroes they save the light of humanity, they were the front line soldiers of the soul, they were there, in Europe surrounded by monsters, and yet they acted.

Schindler's is one of the most important stories of man, and man's true potential, because before the events of the Holocaust he lived a lawless life, if anything you would think Schindler the type of man who would turn in Anne Franks family , but he wasn't was he. He found courage when courage was in short supply, and he carried on his plan totally alone, cutoff from all help, in the heart of the madness.
No other man ever went into Aushwitz to save lives, not during the war. The sight of a little girl changed Schindler forever, he became fearless, he became obsessed with saving lives.
Thank You Oskar Schindler, i give you the greatest credit i can ever give anyone, we know what the Nazis were-cruel, compassionless, heartless, mean, a perversion of humanity-you my friend were the opposite of all that, the anti-Nazi.

Re: Oskar Schindler a thank you

Oskar Schindler (28 April 1908 – 9 October 1974
)He died on 9 October 1974 and is buried in Jerusalem on Mount Zion, the only member of the Nazi Party to be honoured in this way.[39][84] For his work during the war, in 1963 Schindler was named Righteous Among the Nations, an award bestowed by the State of Israel on non-Jews who took an active role to rescue Jews during the Holocaust.[87] Other awards include the German Order of Merit (1966).[88]-Wikipedia
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