12/28/2024

I feel you. I watched this movie for the first time last week. Ive seen a lot of war movies, ww2 movies, but never made it to this one for whatever reason. But watching it in the current political climate, it hits hard. Not enough people really grasp the danger of authoritarianism or fascism today. How easily a regime could callously commit atrocities against a scapegoated population. And how few were able and willing to stand up to it. Also the tragic denial of the Jews who were displaced or sent to camps, unable to acknowledge just how much worse their plight could, and would get. Not knowing much about it other than it was about a German who saved many Jews from the camps, I was struck at how even Schindler wasnt a very good person, at least in the beginning. A shrude businessman who initially takes advantage of Jews for essentially slave labor. But over the course of the holocaust he changes into a savior. I dont think a lot of people understand that the initial plan for the Jews in Nazi Germany was to deport them out of the country.

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