This DESTROYED US! | Watching SCHINDLER'S LIST (1993) For First Time
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- Prepare for an emotional journey as we watch Schindler's List (1993) for the first time. This powerful film, directed by Steven Spielberg, tells the harrowing true story of Oskar Schindler, who saved over a thousand Jewish lives during the Holocaust.
Join us as we experience the raw emotions, heart-wrenching scenes, and unforgettable performances that make this film a cinematic masterpiece. Our reaction to this poignant story is genuine and heartfelt, and we invite you to share this intense experience with us.
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00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:15 Reaction
01:25:32 Recap/Outro - Zábava
No, the officer is not Hitler. Hitler stayed out of ordinary contact and always wore his well- known mustache. The guys were saying the customary phrase “Heil Hitler.”
it was hitler, theres a deleted scene inwhich schindler gifts him a fancy shaving kit in a christmas hamper.
@@fredfinks I have not seen deleted scenes so cannot comment on those. However, Schindler was sending gifts to various military and business people but that does mean they appeared in the film. The officers at Auschwitz were not Hitler - Rudolph Hoss, commandant of Auschwitz, who accepted the diamonds , and Dr. Mengele who saw the women arriving by train. The phrase Heil Hitler was used several times throughout the film, but that was often said when Nazis were meeting or leaving others, and did not mean they were addressing Hitler. Most of the film is set in Poland and Czechia; Hitler was primarily located in Germany or Austria during the later years of the war. If Hitler made an appearance in the film, he would have been made noticeable, especially since his face is so well-known due to his mustache, and not a quick background shot with no listed credit, or even as uncredited. However, if you do know of an appearance, I would appreciate knowing the place in the film and the actor who portrayed him.
@@Dej24601 As is said, the deleted scene showed hitler getting a fancy shaving kit, and then he comes in clean shaven. He picked up the ss uniform as a loaner, because he spilt some shaving cream on his regular tunic. There was going to be a whole subplot about hitler beating the commies with superior enamelware. New 'wunderpots' & pans that will be decisive on the front. For we all know that an army marches on its stomach.
@@fredfinks lol good trolling
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This movie should be seen by every person at least once in their life. Never forget.
Totally agree
Especially college kids.
@@timbuktu8069 The problem is that when you show them this, you can't then expect them to give carte blanche to Israel now when it essentially acts as the bad guys do.
'Promised land' and 'chosen people' used by a military power against a civilian population... No matter how you try to justify it, Israel massively creates its own bad optics. If you're honest about it, Israel is committing a revenge dream against a people that didn't do the holocaust to them. This kind of behavior wouldn't be tolerated from ANY other people, and it disgusts me that Israel is using the atrocities of the past as justification to commit some more now.
And I'm way past college. This thing has been going on for 80 years.
The price of doing nothing when you see something wrong, is everything. My prayer is that we never forget. So thank you, painful as it was, for reacting to this film.
"Evil flourishes when good men do nothing."
Silence is compliance.
Thank you for your video. It is important.
Sad thing is many have forgotten, especially when we see what's happening today.
How many genocides since then? We forgot it in the only sense that matters a couple of years after.
The scene between Schindler and Stern... where Stern finally willingly takes a drink with Schindler after refusing the entire movie... gets me every time.
Me too, more than "i could have got more" one...
Almost every high school senior in Poland goes to Auschwitz on a school trip. It’s one of the most important and painful moments in our history and it still lives deep inside of everyone.
Yes. So much respect for all of them and all of you as well. Greetings from Finland
Greetings from Texas, Finland.
Do the Auschwitz guides still tell stories about human soap and lampshades?
In Israel too.
There is YT footage of local Civilians being made to visit a camp and see what went on there Harrowing.@@qwert86055
That scene at the end where Oskar breaks down makes me cry every time; he has to maintain such composure and this front like he only cared about making money, when he could finally let down that front he completely broke down. I can't imagine having the strength to have to maintain that and pretend to be a member of the party for years. Such an incredible movie.
He could finally show how much he truly cared. Broke our hearts watching that scene. Agreed, incredible movie.
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My husband was a U.S. Army officer and we were stationed in Washington D.C. for a year. While there, we were in a book store and my husband met an older gentleman. They became friends because of a shared interest in ancient military history-Roman Empire, Alexander the Great, etc. We were invited over for dinner. This man was of Italian descent and his wife was a first generation German American. This was the 1980s, and she was a very young girl, in Germany, during WWII. There was no amount of arguing that would ever convince this woman that the Holocaust ever happened or any of it was real. She had been cloistered away in the countryside during the war and was taught that the Jews were bad, and were put in "Health Camps" for their own good to "protect them". I was young, in my twenties, and being raised in the South, was taught that you are never rude when you are in someone else's home. I was so sick to my stomach, I could barely eat, and could not wait to get out of that house and NEVER return.
And sadly, more and more people seem to believe the holocaust never happened, or that Nazi Germany was "right" about the Jews because of current events. Just, unreal isn't it?
That's why the founders of today's Germany put in a law that makes it a crime to deny to Holocaust. They knew something like this was coming. Mind, you can debate the topic freely, you just can't deny it happened.
This is insane... thank you for telling this story. Goes to show how much propaganda and masking went on to cover up what they did.
There are a few veterans, rather there were a few more, in Germany who found nothing really wrong with National Socialism.
My father had an old acquaintance, bomber pilot, shot down twice, crippled, draughtsman, who until he was over ninety still stood by the fact that it was right to shoot 10 or 20 randomly selected italian civilians for every German soldier shot by Italian partisans.
My father always remained loyal to him, as well as to all his acquaintances and friends, even when he was repelled by his opinion on the subject.
After all, it was this this "friend" who terminated his friendship with my father for no reason and after more than 30 years.
Perhaps a small shocker for many people: the group around the well-known Hitler assassin Claus Graf von Stauffenberg was also not interested in saying goodbye to the ideas of National Socialism, had the assassination attempt and the subsequent coup d'état succeeded. First and foremost, they wanted to end the war, which was unwinnable for Germany, and then negotiate with the Allies about a sovereign, principled continuation of National Socialist Germany.
My father never questioned his own father, a captain in the Wehrmacht. When I asked why not, my father replied: “The old man would only have lied to me anyway”.
Except she was right and it didn't happen.
WOODEN DOORS!
This film, along with "Hotel Rwanda" should be MANDATORY viewing for all high school seniors. I grew up knowing Holocaust survivors, now there very few left to tell us their first hand accounts.
I understand that a lot of reactors are actually learning about some things as they watch, but sometimes it's hard to watch .. you two know much more and understand a lot of the motivations in play here. It was good to see.
Appreciate the love, we try our best to go into reactions like this with our best foot forward. Happy we were able to watch and learn more about the events that happened around this time.
Schindler was in denial of what was happening around him for a good portion of this movie. Such a beautiful character transformation. ♥️🙏
Agreed beautiful character transformation.
My wife's great uncle was a combat engineer. He had to bury bodies. With a bulldozer, there were so many. I can't imagine what that man carried with him the rest of his life.
This was an incredibly difficult film for everyone one involved. During the scene where they're digging up the bodies and burning them, there's a blond N*zi who starts screaming and firing his gun into the air. That wasn't acting. The guy playing him couldn't take it any more (even though it wasn't real), and he freaked out and started breaking down.
As amazing as this story is, Schindler was not unique. There were others trying to save people. Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat posted in Romania, saved 2,000 people by issuing visas so they could escape. It cost him his job and his livelihood, and he lived the rest of his life in poverty and disgrace. There's a documentary about him. In China during their war with Japan, Minnie Vautrin saved hundreds of women who would have been savaged and murdered by the Japanese forces who overran the city of Nanjing. She had the same self-blame that Schindler talked about, but she couldn't take it and committed suicide after the war. Minnie is literally worshipped as a goddess by the families of those she saved; her picture sits on family altars across China. Good people are found in every horror-filled war and crisis, trying to help wherever they can.
Thank you for sharing these stories with us.
@@jeffsherk7056 You're welcome. There are many people who risk their lives and never get a movie. (Though they often get books, but who reads books anymore, sad to say?)
@@Serai3 John Rabe probably takes the cake in that regard.
Don’t know you realized it by now but that demonic SS officer Amon Goeth is played by Ralph Fiennes - who portrayed Voldermort
don't forget Pharaoh Ramses!
@@vixenwinters6375 And Voldemort.
@@Vanipollonia1 lol check original comment. did you mean to name a different character?
@@vixenwinters6375 lol! I did not see that comment before. It may have been edited. Oh well! 😁
@@vixenwinters6375 That is one of my favorite roles of his, his voice acting is fn fantastic.
I saw this in the theater with a group that included Holocaust survivors. I couldn't believe they were able to sit through it. The movie was released two months before I went to Poland to participate in the March of the Living, which is where people walk between Auschwitz I (the main camp) and Auschwitz II-Birkenau (where the gas chambers were). We toured a lot of other concentration camps as well. Most were pretty much destroyed by the Nazis right before being liberated in order to destroy evidence, but one in particular called Majdanek was well preserved. It was the first camp liberated, and the Soviet army got there before they could do much except partially destroy one crematorium. You can still see blue stains on the walls of the gas chambers from the Zyklon B that was used to exterminate prisoners. I didn't get as emotional as I thought I would during most of the tours because I'd been studying the Holocaust for most of my life and was kind of desensitized, but seeing Majdanek was different. There were warehouses full of prisoners' belongings in addition to seeing the actual gas chambers and barracks. And there was a mausoleum that contains ashes collected from the 15 piles of human ashes found when the camp was liberated. The huge dome above the mound has an engraving on it that translates to "let our fate be a warning to you." Touring Majdanek broke me for a while.
Thank you for sharing all of this, I couldn't image walking through those concentration camps and feeling the heavy energy of that place. It's great that everything is preserved for people to go to see now so see for yourself the evidence left behind of this atrocity. Something like this should never happen again, but it's sad to see things today that resemble this in some fashion.
Heart wrenching when he realized he could've gotten one more person. (The little girl in red)
So sad! He knew that thought would haunt him. Masterpiece of a film.
The little girl in red was never going to survive. Spielberg highlighted her in red to show the audience that during the Holocaust, you might get lucky and escape a death squad but they would eventually get you. There really was no escape for the people who were in the ghetto death camps.
Believe it or not, things weren't amped up for the movie... they were toned way down from reality. *sighs* It's difficult for normal people to grasp the inhumanity suffered. Amon Goeth was nothing short of evil personified, but he was just one of many.
Nah, just another mf.
Look up Stanford prison experiment and the Milgram study.
yeah, we've heard some pretty wild stories about what went on. some very wild, crazy, some would say almost unbelievable stories.
The movie barely touched on the experimentation conducted on the prisoners - horrific stuff.
A lot of people have made this comment, couldn't imagine what this people really went through being around this guy.
Toned down? 99% of the stuff you hear about never even happened.
It's certainly not as real as what they're doing today to the Palestinians.
I also read that Spielberg often called Robin Williams to have him tell him jokes. It was so hard for him to direct this movie.
Williams called him every night. Jerry Seinfeld woukd send him the daisy's from Seinfeld also.
It never ceases to disgust me just what people will do to other people 😔 knowing this kinda stuff is still happening around the world is just beyond belief 😔
It’s nonsensical that so many people have so much hatred for others simply for not believing what they do.
The way for change is education and action.
Now its t make money and traffic people the current system is not good the few who profit con or threaten the masses they used propaganda from them being kids for this war. I think we definitely are more aware in the west. Most are not war mongering its always the elite phycos st the top
Thank you guys for watching and sharing your heartfelt reactions to this movie. Too many people in this country today don’t believe something like this can happen again and happen here, while feeling perfectly righteous hating others based on the belief that some human beings are worthy and others should be erased from existence. Thanks again. Subscribed.
Appreciate the love, this was hard to watch but definitely was a necessary one. We must live and learn to not repeat atrocities like this ever again.
The evil commandant of the camp, Amon Göth, has a biracial black German granddaughter named Jennifer Teege. Jennifer was given up for adoption at birth, but knew who her bio-mom was, and she found out her family history at age 38 when she saw a book in the library written by her mother about being Göth's daughter. By that time, Jennifer had gone to university in Israel, made many Jewish friends, and had seen the film Schindler's List. She wrote a book called, "My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me".
It's very good that someone has mentioned this.
But there are also other interesting stories about people with dark pigmentation who actually lived in Germany during the National Socialist regime.
For example, the story of Hans-Jürgen Massaquoi.
Son of Bertha Beatz, a German nurse, and Al Haj Massaquoi from Liberia.
The National Socialists were not only fundamentally against people who they did not consider “Aryan” enough, they were primarily against Jews, whom they considered to be “unscrupulous” capitalists in their ideology. People who want or strive for financial and human control over the world and stand in the way of national SOCIALISM.
If you now start to ask where
( from socialists all over the world )the NationalSOCIALISTS “stole” their ideas and how and by whom they were supported before the war, it might frighten some people.
Let's put it this way: there was a reason why these countries helped Germany to rebuild itself after its complete capitulation and why they accepted that former members of the National Socialist Party came into government offices, again.
In any case, it was not just out of pure altruism, even if many Germans were quite grateful to the “Americans” and, in my opinion, should be.
It's crazy, there's even a family resemblance between them.
This is an insane story. We will definitely have to look into get that book and checking it out for ourselves. WOW. Thanks for the information!
@@DaKidsReact It's worth.
The book by Hans-Jürgen Massaquoi is called "Neger,Neger, Schornsteinfeger( in German, translation: Negroe, Negroe, chimney weep" but doesn't rhyme in this Form ;) )
English version is "Destined to witness: Growing up Black in Nazi Germany".
Just for the information.
Greetings guys ;)
@@stephanthomas4410 Incorrect. There were literal Muslim regimes in the Reich. Also there's a thing called the Nuremberg Laws which were counter to everything you've just stated.
Let me also educate you on what National Socialism means:
""A Socialist is one who serves the common good without giving up his individuality or personality or the product of his personal efficiency. Our adopted term 'Socialist' has nothing to do with Marxian Socialism. Marxism is anti-property; true socialism is not. Marxism places no value on the individual, or individual effort, or efficiency; true Socialism values the individual and encourages him in individual efficiency, at the same time holding that his interests as an individual must be in consonance with those of the community. All great inventions, discoveries, achievements were first the product of an individual brain."
Oh and they "helped rebuild Germany" for the same reasons they helped rebuild Japan: when you do that you then own them. And look at Germany today: a fallen nation under US/J-ish rule.
When the prisoners put blood on their cheeks and lips, it wasn't about looking pretty; it was about looking healthier. They had to strip so the doctors could visually assess their health. That's also why they made them run.
Just think, 6,000 descendants, that was in 1993. Imagine how many there are now. You wo young men with hearts like you have, with such a depth of compassion and feeling are part of why America is the great country it is. I am so impressed at your reaction. No need to try to say anything, I can see it in your eyes, thank you for the wonderful young men you are. Blessings Always!
Appreciate the kind words and love! ❤ I definitely wonder what the number is today, it would be amazing to know!
It’s more important than ever to remember that these things happened and can easily happen again if we don’t pay attention.
I feel like we are at a tipping point. That we are in 938 and one Kristallnacht away from becoming the worst of the worst.
Genocide happens but the media shields their country's misdeeds. Israel has killed almost 40,000 civilians in Gaza. The ratio of militants to innocent civilians is 98% to 2%. That is clear cut genocide.
The bad thing is that anti-Semitism is normal again in Germany. The German left has always been deeply anti-Semitic, they call it "criticism of Israel". These are the same people who are pushing for immigration from Islamic countries to Germany. There are now large demonstrations in Berlin and elsewhere where people are calling for "Jews to be gassed" - by Arabs who are "in need of protection". They also shout "From the river to the see...", the anti-Semitic slogan of the terrorist organization Hamas. Recently, leftists, together with young Arabs, occupied a university in Berlin and "protested" against Jews there. The chairwoman of the TU Berlin liked Hamas propaganda on social media. She did not have to resign because she is a leftist. Muslims and leftists are always victims in Germany, the only evil people are those who classify them as "right-wing". This means all people who do not think differently from the left and, for example, do not want Islamic immigration.
We emigrated from Germany three years ago. It is no longer safe there if you have children - especially daughters.
In Berlin alone there were 111 group rapes last year. A new German phenomenon and one of the blessings of Islamic immigration. Because the majority of those suspected and convicted are precisely these "refugees". The left calls this “enrichment through other cultures.”
The funny thing is: During all these anti-Semitic incidents involving leftists, these people point at the right-wingers and claim that they are anti-Semitic and worship Hitler.
Germany is a dying country. Prosperity is decreasing, the economy is fleeing, thousands of companies have filed for bankruptcy in recent years. Nobody wants to invest there anymore and anyone who has money or a sought-after job is emigrating. We left Germany about 4 years ago and many friends laughed at the time. Today nobody laughs anymore and in my new homeland 50% of my circle of friends is again made up of Germans who also left. Something is brewing in Germany, the state is once again taking action against the opposition, censoring, concealing and lying. The Germans have learned nothing from history. Least of all those who keep shouting "Never again!"
@@nac.mac.feegle Trump will make sure we see history repeat itself if he is voted in again. May God bless Biden with a win. Otherwise, we will never have democracy again and he will NEVER leave the White House again. Him and his slaves will make sure of that.
Liam Neeson was a journeyman actor, minor and secondary roles for years until Schindler's List made him an A-list lead actor.
He was married to Natasha Richardson - daughter of anti-Semite Vanessa Redgrave.
"The boy in the striped pajamas" Its so good yall should watch
We are going to try our best to get that movie in whenever we can!!
Near the place l live german and their ally soldiers made around 7000, all from nearby villages and our town, dig trenches all night. No shovels , no tools. In the morning they would line them up at the ditch and shot them in groups of 20-30. Smaller people, children etc wouldn't always be killed . But they would die from suffication when bodies were piled on them. My grandmothers friend was with her mother . Her mother held her in front of here , so when the bullets hit it first went through her and then hit my grans friend. The bullet hit her on the shoulder, went up hit her jaw and exited in the front. They were one of the last people killed, so there weren't many bodies on top of her. When she woke up she moved out from the bit of sand covering her and walked till she was found wondering in the woods by some poachers (daily ration were 700 kal for non jews and 350kal for jews) , and the boys took her to my great grandmother house , where they sawn up here face and immoblised her broken jaw. She hid with my grans family till the end of the war.
What a story. Thank you for sharing this, it's sad to hear what happened to these families. But also amazing to hear of the stories where people are helping and putting their lives on the line in times like these.
Your greatgrandmorher is a hero, I hope to thank her one day.
I've talked to survivors. This was very accurate. No Hollywood. History.
Steven Spielberg was adamant about getting this correct. These were his people. It's said that many a day went by ending with him in tears.
They filmed on location and many of the extras were devastated by the parts they played. But they understood the importance of what they were doing. This is hands down the best movie ever about WWII and probably one of the most difficult to watch. Every high school in the US should have this movie as mandatory study before graduation.
They had extras who LIVED THROUGH these events. They had former Plazchou residents who literally became physically ill at the portrayal of Goertz ... it was 100% correct.
I seem this movie in high school during my holocaust literature class. We later took a field trip to washington DC to the museums and i was holding back tears the whole time. My great grandma was a survivor, she never wanted to talk about it because it was too hard to relive her trauma of losing family, we never got her story. All i know is she moved to the states a few years after the war and found my great grandfather and started a family. She still had her number tattoo and always kept it hidden. She still felt in danger constantly. I understand why she wouldnt tell us her story it was too hard thinking of her friends and family, she lost her father, uncle and brother.
I seem this movie in high school during my holocaust literature class. We later took a field trip to washington DC to the museums and i was holding back tears the whole time. My great grandma was a survivor, she never wanted to talk about it because it was too hard to relive her trauma of losing family, we never got her story. All i know is she moved to the states a few years after the war and found my great grandfather and started a family. She still had her number tattoo and always kept it hidden. She still felt in danger constantly. I understand why she wouldnt tell us her story it was too hard thinking of her friends and family, she lost her father, uncle and brother.
Why are there so many "survivors" of these camps?
Corrie Ten Boom was only survivor of her family, after years in a concentration camp. She later wrote her bio "The Hiding Place". Which was made into a major motion picture in the early 70s. (Very Spielberg-esq film, actually.) A few years later I was blessed to hear her speak at our church. A kid blown away by first seeing the movie, I still remember everything. Partly because some of those prisoners were my ancestors. I have German Jewish blood through my maternal grandmother, and proud to say so. But also, it was really horrific. Like what you just saw. Lhm
Really enjoyed watching both of you with this. 🙏
I am of the Ashkenazi Jews.
Please read the book its so much deeper than the movie. Her sister in law would not lie even to the germans, one time the Jews she was keeping were caught because she would not lie, as the jews were being led away she yelled to the them saying that God would honor the fact she would not sin and lie and He would not let harm happen to them. Sure enough the train they were on was hit in an air attack and they escaped and one of the jewish ladies that had stayed with her felt it was very, very important that she found out that they were all safe, so made the dutch underground let her know!
@@biffmarcum5014 I heard her speak of that and much more, on the day I was speaking of.
I too was blessed to hear her speak. Something I will never forget.
I watched the movie first and was able to buy the book as well! I love her and her family's story! Those stories show the goodness in the midst of extreme darkness
@@maryrichardson1318 oh wow, you're last name is same as our pastor back then... Lyman B. Richardson. Idk how I rmbr this stuff from almost 50 years ago. Lhm 😆
I was a 19yo US soldier stationed in Germany and went to see Auschwitz. It's chilling deep into your spine to see the furnaces and gas showers/rooms.
Can't even imagine the feeling.
Great reaction guys! Sadly too many other channels are trying to keep this >30 minutes, glad you kept in all the important parts. Keep it up
Appreciate the love and support! Happy you enjoyed it!
The Train with the Schindler women was the ONLY train that left Auschwitz with living people ever. Also... It was the only time the guards used names
I know me being German that it's my heritage
I still always get sad when I watch this.
We all have to learn and make sure something like that never happens again
(and it has been prove that it can easily happen again - there ist the German movie "the wave" (die Welle) and it shows a socila test that escaleted and was based upon this)
So yeah XD
That's not exactly true. They did some transports to different camps by train. It's probably the only train that left where all the women actually survived the war, but not the only train of living people to leave.
>We all have to learn and make sure something like that never happens again
Got bad news for you regarding Israel and Palestine...
For a long time people would say that "those Germans. How could anyone allow that to happen. _We're_ not bad like them." It's not that hard. It just takes patience and time to insinuate, demonize other people to make it acceptable to abuse them. Yes, we all have to potential to become those people. Every one of us. And the U.S. Nazi sympathizers and politicians who actually tried to impose Nazi/totalitarianism in the U.S. were not few. If we cannot see the parallels to today in the U.S., and elsewhere and not feel it's imperative to fight it...well, I despair.
@@ahoyforsenchou7288 Not comparable, at all. The Jews didn't start a war with Germany.
Even some germans during this time were against the war.
That ending scene with Liam saying "I could've done more" is one of the best scenes on film IMO. So moving! I enjoy watching movies with you men! ❤️
Amon Goerth played by Ralph Finnes (The actor who played Voldamort in Harry Potter) was one of the most evil people who ever lived , he literally killed thousands with his own gun over a period of just 3 - 4 years !!!!! Dude should have gotten a Oscar for that role , him & Liam Neason (Schindler) & Ben Kingsley who plays as Stern (& also the Dr. from Shutter Island) all deserved a Oscar for this film !!!!
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I also heard that he had a hard time playing that character and even had to cry sometimes
I thought you were talking about the actor for a full second
I am so glad that when I was in Jerusalem that I stumbled on his grave in Cemetery across the street from the old city. In 2005 there were still fresh flowers on his grave.
From what I understand the actor who played the part of Amon Goth had actually toned it down for the movie. The real Amon Goth was reported to have been far worser in real life. Many of the survivors who were on the sets as those scenes were being filmed were frightened that the real Amon Goth had returned back from the dead. That was how spot on the actor’s performance.
Fake
I was just telling them what I had heard. I don’t say whether it was true or not but that was what I had heard. All I can say is if it was true then the actor did an outstanding job.
Not fake, as far as I know: when actor Ralph Fiennes first met Holocaust survivor Mila Pfefferberg(the young woman who refused to hide in the sewers-FYI she was afraid the Germans would pump gas down there too-), she began shaking uncontrollably. Fiennes wasn’t trying to upset her, I think it was a simple matter of the uniform, the haircut, and the cold stare he’s so well known for. I imagine it took very little to conjure up some truly ghastly memories of that evil son of a bitch. The encounter was corroborated by Jennifer Teege, granddaughter of Amon Goeth and author of “My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me”.
I think we often lose sight that it took years for the Nazi's to prime people to accept the unthinkable. This started early in the 30s, if not before, with a thousand little things that made people willing to not just allow, but embrace horrific acts. It's why people fight for those who are not like themselves, but who are being demonized, abused, killed. And, we should not be unaware of how easily the U.S. could have been allies of Germany. There were many here sympathetic to the Nazis. There _are_ many here sympathetic if they're not actually Nazi's in everything but the name, and that's even becoming more acceptable to proudly proclaim.
I suggest "The Pianist", another great true story about the Nazi period.
Very, very good movie( especially for me because i play the piano myself), but in my eyes one of the best german( anti-war) movies and generally, is "Das Boot".
It shows you the german perspective of a submarine crew and don't gloryfying anything about war and is propably one of the most authentic film what realism goes about.
"The Pianist" is in my top favourite movies ❤😢
1:22:43 Amon Goeth. He was litterally insane and a member of the SS. Typically referred to as The Butcher of Płaszów. He would sit on his balcony with a Kar98K scoped sniper rifle and take pot shots at the Jewish prisoners. He was known for being especially brutal. If 1 prisoner made a mistake or broke something, their whole bunk line was lined up and either all of them where shot 1 by 1 with Goeths pistol OR every other man was shot. If he ran out of ammunition he would use his knife or fists. He was a known kelptomaniac and served his final years of service to the German empire in a mental ward for clinical insanity. Until he was quite litterally dragged out tried and hung at Krakow. The movie Schindlers list gets fairly accurate with their depiction of him. He was somewhat portly but filled his uniform well. So most never noticed he was not in good shape.
The angel of death was josef mengele
Goeth wasn't tried at Nuremberg, but at a tribunal in Krakow. Nobody ever called him "the angel of death"--that was used to describe Josef Mengele, the concentration camp doctor who conducted horrible medical experiments on the prisoners.
@@iraboss6691 Thanks youre right edit it.. It was The Butcher of Płaszów
@@johannesvalterdivizzini1523 Youre right, i correct it. Thanks!
@@dond3r183 yes your correct there. All good bro
Another hard movie to watch, but true is The Killing Fields. About Cambodia at the end of the Vietnam War.
Good suggestion
We'll have to check this out!
It's important that young people learn about world history and the Holocaust so that it will never be repeated. Great reaction, guys.
It IS important. Unfortunately, there have been and still are genocides throughout the world today. It's hard to see.
It’s unfortunate when you say this because they’re still concentration camps till this day
it is currently being repeated
Yes it's important however unfortunately as long as world leaders and ppl in power remain corrupt, history will ALWAYS repeat itself. Only now with advances in technology it is easier to control ppl. As Kurt Cobain said "Evil prevails when good men fail to act". Sadly only the rich have any say or power/authority n almost all are very corrupt.
When you hear the words”essential” and “non-essential “ workers , in light of 2020, it gives me chills
Or when the unvaccinated were losing jobs and being kept out of business places like restaurants
I’m 70 years old, live in California. I went to school with kids who’s parents who survived the camps. One of my best friend had her mother come to our history class and tell her story. I’ll never forget that..
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Wow I bet that was an experience. Hopefully we continue to do our best to teach generations to come about atrocities as such so they will never be repeated. Sad to say things are going on today that is showing history repeats its self. Appreciate the love Grandma Debbie!
And to think this is mild next to what they actually went through. I have studied this horror extensively and most of what I learned would literally make you throw up it’s so bad! One of the greatest films in human history.
This is actually tame compared to all the absolutely horrifying things that happened to people during the Holocaust..so if anything they toned it down, probably because most audiences wouldn't be able to even watch it
I have watched over 20 Schindlers List reactions. your editing has to be in top 3. Excellent job. Nice reaction also.
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Just found this channel. Enjoyed you reaction. If I had to throw my hat in the ring for a WWII/Holocaust film I would go with “Life is Beautiful”. You WILL cry. You WILL Laugh.
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Everyone speaks of Band of Brothers Episode 9 "Why We Fight" being painful, it is...This is when Spielberg gets even more real. I insist you see "The Fallen of WW2" to see the scale of this atrocity and tragedy beyond Easy Company. Never Forget.
As I said in the BOB Ep. 9 reaction, I really think Spielberg had the Nazi wife in the red coat as a reference to this little Jewish girl. To show both sides of the Holocaust. Just a thought. I don't think there are coincidences in his work.
The scene in The Fallen Of WW2 where it shows the Russian casualties, and the numbers just kept climbing and climbing, made me so emotional considering it's just an infographic.
An incredible film all should watch. As a side note - this movie documents why it is so frustrating to hear people today call anyone a "nazi" whom they disagree with politically... nazis were true evil and this film captures it...
Sorry, but you guys made me laugh when you said that was Hitler 😂 Heil Hitler was a greeting they made not just to Hitler, they said it to lots of other people too. It's a nazi salute.
I didn’t watch the whole thing yet and I knew they were going to say something like that 😂😂
It is the equivalent of "Hail Caesar" which would have been a greeting by ancient Roman warriors. Basically Hail to the King.
@@maryrichardson1318 That's true, but it was mainly a kind of virtue signaling.
In the military, basically the Wehrmacht, there were some officers who rejected this and instead practiced the typical military salute.
But as political correctness dictates today in the USA and many “Western” countries, it was a sign that you belonged to the community of supposed “good guys”.
we used to salute the flag the same way, look up bellamy salute....
@@SAXklon-b That's a good hint and shows once again that almost nothing about the "Nazis" was original.
The Bellamy salute is from 1892.
One small difference remains, however: the bellamy salute was conceived as a salute to the American flag, whereas the Nazi salute, as I have already mentioned, was intended to indicate that the person saluting supported National Socialism AND the "Führer" (virtue signaling).
Since the salute was subsequently mandatory in almost all areas of public life, and much later also in the military, under threat of severe punishment, it is difficult to say how many Germans were convinced of this and how many did it simply out of compulsion.
EDIT : The "Nazi salute" could not even be addressed to the German flag (black-red-gold), as the National Socialists had abolished it (these colors stand for giving Germany a free democratic basic order).
Steven Spielberg's family was there, that's why he made the movie! Another important movie is Sophie's Choice, Meryl Streep starred in it. I understand how you feel, but they didn't amp up the drama. If anything, they couldn't come close to the horror. Schindler was an angel on Earth. Thank you, you understand the message.
Hitler appears nowhere in this movie. They guy you think was Hitler was actually Julian Scherner, the head of the police in Krakow. Saluting and saying "Heil Hitler" at the same time was the standard Nazi Party salute.
The little girl in the red coat gets me , I mean going and hiding under the bed just destroys me. What else would a little child think to do in such a situation. So tragic.
While making this movie, Spielberg wouldn't even communicate with the actors playing the Einsatzgruppen. These were actors of the German theater playing these parts. Spielberg would give them direction but he wouldn't make small talk with them as he couldn't get past the Schutzstaffel uniforms. That is until a beautiful thing happened very early in production. A Passover Seder was held at the hotel the cast and crew were staying. Spielberg had all the Jewish actors sitting around at a table, then all the German actors walked in wearing yarmulkes and participated in the rituals of the Passover Seder and Spielberg was moved to tears.
Frankly if that is even true then it doesnt paint Spielberg in a good light at all.
Roberto Benigni in “Life is Beautiful”. He won an Oscar for this role. As a parent myself, I don’t know if I could even come close to pulling this off.
Stephen Spielberg made this movie as his final exam piece to graduate from film school after a 30 year break ( making other blockbusters and winning oscars ). His professor gave him a A minus for it.
Ralph Fiennes playing Amon Goeth took time in between takes to comfort the Schindler Jews on set as his performance, likeness and mannerisms were so much like him it caused panic attacks in some of them. If you watch any footage of Goeth its unbelievable how spot on he is in his performance.
The Schindler Jews actually took care of Schindler in his old age as he was hated in his own country because of what he did for these people. He became part of their families and was always invited to family events and gatherings. They paid for his funeral too and for his body to be flown to and buried in a jewish cemetery in Isreal. Rest in peace.
That professor as some balls. If this os an ‘A-‘, then an ‘A’ movie simply doesnt exist
@@ethanwinnegrad3402 I know right it's so crazy. It's a absolute masterpiece of cinema. He still graduated but still I would love to know what he classed as a A or a A plus movie because seriously I cannot think of any.
Schindler was not "despised in his country" (Czechia) for what he did for the people. He more likely was despised for having been a spy for Germany and as a war profiteer.
The ending absolutely broke me into a million pieces. Schindler breaking down then seeing all his real survivors in the end of the movie woth the actors who portrayed them. Absolutely beautiful work. This movie is so well done. I showed the movie to my 12 year old and she said the little girl in red broke her heart. Rest in peace to all the sould lost during the whole war. Liam(schindler) is a wonderful actor, he must have been so honored to play a man who started out ignorant but turned for the better and saved 1100 jewish men, women and children. "Just one more" will always break my heart.
One of the survivors at the end is the guy who told Thomas Kenneally the story. Kenneally needed his leather briefcase repaired and he went into Leopold Pfefferberg's shop. When he spent some time on the set for the Krakow camp, he apparently said the only thing missing was the stench. Things had to be changed and concentrated; it was a movie after all, but Spielberg went out of his way to try to corroborate everything that appeared in the movie. According to the book Kenneally wrote telling the story of how the book and the movie got made, when they had the premiere in Austria they had a great many young Austrians thanking them in tears because their own parents and grandparents would not talk about what went on. I went to an exhibit at the Imperial War Museum back before this movie was made and the room where they had a scale model of ~ ONLY ~ a small area of the main camp there was absolute silence; only shoes scraping on the floor and a few tears. I recall too reading about someone whose father, or grandfather, had been in an American unit that liberated a camp; he told how he and his brother had been talking about whether it ever happened. He said it was the only time he ever raised a hand to them; then he sat them down and, for the only time in his life; that they knew of, he told them everything he saw during that time. Thank you guys. Goddess watch over you both, kerk
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The young girl in Red is Polish, for the last year or so she,s been volunteering to help Ukrainen refugees in Poland,God bless her.
Spielberg didn't want her to see the movie till she was at least 18, she saw it when she was about 12 .
Does that mean Ukraine can give us our hundreds of billions of tax dollars back?
"...and he's got the war (to consider), which brings out the worst in people. Never the good, always the bad. Always the bad."
I consider these to be the most important, yet subtle, lines because the war eventually brought out the best in Schindler. He was a scoundrel before and after the war (the film really puts a shine on the actual person), but he eventually came around and did an incredible thing.
Totally agree! It’s so amazing to see how much he changed for the better. This film is a masterpiece!
Thank you for reacting to this movie in particular because my great grandmother experienced the horrors this movie had shown during the Holocaust yet nothing portrayed in a movie could possibly portray what millions of Jewish babies, child, women, men and many other minorities experienced during the genocide of over 6 million innocent Holocaust victims. Ive heard the real life horror stories, the unimaginable sights the victims/survivors of the Holocaust experienced first hand, the unfathomable losses so many experienced as they saw their loved ones shot in cold blood right in front of them which my great grandmother lost her twin sister born with brown eyes, my great grandmother had blue and was sent to the opposite line, lost both parents and had no one when the heinously sinister acts of the Holocaust were finally over, most were walking, talking, barely breathing skeletons that were told they were free yet had absolutely no where to turn. I really appreciate your true attention and the emotions you had shown while watching this movie.
Appreciate sharing that story of your great grandmother. Like you said this movie did its job but it could never compare to the true events/actions that people experienced during this time. It’s a great film that should be watched by all. Thank you for the love and support!
1. As horrible as the events depicted in this film are, the real historical events were actually much worse and multiplied endless times.
2. The film is more than kind and generous in its depiction of Schindler.
My great grandma and grandpa escaped Poznan Poland right before the invasion...the rest of my family on that side were taken to camps...when my grandpa was old enough he enlisted and went back to Europe and fought the germans
Just wow. Thank you for sharing the story of your great grandparents. Can't imagine all the emotions they went through.
One element that isn't the most historically accurate is the glee the SS Einsatzgruppen (exterminator units) troops displayed when killing Jews in this film. The reality is that the men assigned to the SS Einsatzgruppen absolutely HATED their jobs and could only take so much. The Einsatzgruppen had a 78.3% transfer request rate- meaning 8 out of 10 men belonging to Einsatzgruppen groups put in requests to go fight and die on the battlefield instead continuing with their jobs of killing Jews and Slavs. Almost all requests were denied, and as a result the Einsatzgruppen had an alarming desertion and suicide rate. Those who stayed and endured became alcoholics, morphine addicts, and sex fiends in order to offset the terrible reality they were living with of being responsible for murdering so many people. The Nazis gave these forces 14 weeks of additional specialized training, but nothing could prepare the men for the day-in, day-out routine of being executioners. Those who survived, suffered from severe PTSD afterwards. Even Nazis have limits, it seems.
There is nothing about the Einsatzgruppen in this movie. Only scènes where they digged up the corpses and burned them to destroy the evidence.
It was not true that 8 out of 10 members of the Einsatzgruppen wanted to leave the squad. These were not hardcore SS units but ordinary members of the normal police.
Nobody was forced to participate in the shootings. Some refused and were transfered to other units. There have never been serious personal consequences for those who refused.
Before they started the mass executions, the members of the police were informed about the job. Afterwards they gave everybody the chance to leave, but only a small minority did.
Also many of them were Ukrainians
@@joek600 yes, and also from the Baltic states. But the NAZI'S could find helpers in every occupied country.
Saw this in high school as an assignment. I remember just being so sad. Incredible film.
This is one of those movies I think everyone should watch. I used to think it would prevent ever having a repeat of conditions like this, but it seems to be the worst of human nature, and maybe there’s no cure. But it also shows the best of us. And that’s equally-or maybe even more-unstoppable.
You guys are some of my favorite reactors! You’re super intelligent and always pick up on all of the small details. It’s very refreshing to see reactors who are engaged in what they’re watching. Keep up the good work fellas!
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Oh boy, this is a tough one to jump into blind. Even with foreknowledge it’s hard hitting.
Man... I have watched this movie many times, hits me every time again. I educated my kids with stories about Schindler, Anne Frank, Dietrich Bonhoeffer etc. Our history must never be repeated.
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39:00 God was indeed on his side, the man on the ground is one of their Rabbi (holy men)
It is stories of these few good people then that means my family today is here. My great grandmother was the only survivor of our family lineage. To this day I look at my family tree and in WW2 the family went from dozens of ancestors to one. Her survival is why my grandmother was born, my father, and now my sisters and I. I held my great grandmothers hand when I was 6 years old when she died, as I looked at her tattoo of her number from that time. She only wanted me with her when she was dying because I think I reminded her of when she had innocence before she saw the atrocities she endured. She refused to speak of the horrors she went through, her family being murdered, and the haunting memories that you could see in her face. I will forever grieve what my family could have looked like without the murderous death of my family. The people that could have been that never was born. The people that never had the chance to be their beautiful selves in the world. Thank you for watching this and your reactions.
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Well done guys. Thanks for giving it the time needed. Real honest reaction.
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Powerful true story! Powerful and thoughtful reaction! Thank you!
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Great reaction guys! Worth the wait! Watching the survivors place the rocks on Oskars grave gets me every time.
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Thank you for taking time to watch (really watch, respectfully) and react to this movie. Your reactions and commentary are the best I’ve seen so far. I could see that you were really engaging and trying to learn as much of this story as you could while watching. You guys were awesome, I will be subscribing, liking and turning on my notifications for your channel due to your genuine respect for a movie that tells about such an impactful and horrifying time of humans lives. So much respect for you guys. Much love ❤️
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Great reaction! This movie makes me cry every time.
Great reaction -- and fantastic analysis! It's a difficult film to watch; but, it's a necessary education. It's especially important to see this right now. Well done!
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A shout out to all the color blind people like me who have seen the movie multiple times but can never find the little girl in red. I have never been able to spot her. I didn't even know she was in the movie until someone told me.
It’s the little girl that’s walking in the street by herself as the liberation of the ghettos is happening😢
Yes the little girl wearing a coat, who walks through the streets by herself, & goes up into a building & hides under a bed by herself. She looks to be about 4 years old.
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You guys got me with this reaction. Really appreciate y’all for watching this. I’m subscribed now because of how well you guys broke down this movie based on real events. All the best
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We read this book in high school, and afterwards we watched this movie. Since then I've probably watched over 30 movies on the Holocaust. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is another one.
I really felt for Ralph Fiennes for this role. Not his character but the actor himself, because after makeup and all that he did meet some of the real survivors of Ammon Goethe's insanity during this shoot, and the fear they had of him, even knowing it was an actor and just makeup-the visceral impact was so overwhelming he (ralph Fiennes) broke down several times and just seriously questioned if he actually could even do the role. I am also very grateful that he did because as horrible as the character is, it was a real man who did these things and needed to not end up hidden by time
Some points of note: There are 2 very top ranked (and unnamed) Nazis in the Auschwitz scenes:
1.) The very polite man walking the line asking how old they are is Dr Josef Mengele, infamous for his medical experiments. After the war he fled to Brazil and lived there until he died of a heart attack in 1979.
2. The one who Schindler bribed with diamonds is Camp Kommandant Rudolf Hoss (There were actually two high ranking Nazis with the same name and the other one, Rudolf Hoess, was Hitlers personal secretary. I tend to mix them up....but anyway) He tried to flee but was captured and later executed at Nuremberg.
3.) Schindler didn’t go to Auschwitz in person. He just made some phone calls, but thats not as dramatic, so Spielberg changed it.
4.) The women were in Auschwitz for three (I think. Maybe 2) weeks. The reason they were not immediately sent to the gas chamber was because Schindler actually FED his people. They were more than healthy enough to work.
5.) As to the children, the Nazi ideology was all about efficiency. Maximal profit for minimal cost. Children couldn't work as much as adults. Small children couldn't work at all. Also since they were still growing, they needed twice as much food. Thus, they were not efficient or essential.
6.) Ralph Fiennes portrayal of Amon Goeth was so accurate that the real Mila Pfferberg(sp????) had a panic attack and he immediately broke character.
7.) During the filming of the shower scene, three Israeli actresses were so traumatized that production was halted for 3 days.
An absolutely tough watch but necessary. Thank you for your humble and humility while reacting. An easy new subscriber here
Beautiful reaction to such an important movie!
Great reaction, dudes.
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You are 💯 correct. Everyone needs to watch this film.
Brilliant reaction, guys, well done!
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It is a must see so we don't forget. Well done, again.
Thank you!! This was a masterpiece.
Appreciate you guys watching this. It's important to bear witness. As the last of the survivors die off, it's more important than ever to keep the memory of the victims and lessons of the Holocaust alive.
01:15:25 - The moment Schindler gives back, to a people who have literally everything taken from them, their religion, always, without fail breaks me. A beautiful moment of humanity. Thank you for your thoughtful and considerate reaction, gentlemen. You have a new sub.
A very important movie for everyone to watch. So glad that you guys reacted to this.😢❤
Well-done reaction to a powerful film. Thank you.
I'm not trying to make you go down a rabbit hope. But the Pianist is one of the best holocaust movies. It about a Polish musician Wladyslaw POV of what he went through as a Jew during the war. You feel his pain. It's an amazingly made film. it will make you cry.