Schindler's List - The Injustice of the List
SS officer: [[w:Schutzstaffel|SS]
This storm is different. This is not the Romans. This storm is the ].
Jewish Woman: [to the [[w:Judenrat|Judenrat]
They come into our house and tell us we don't live there anymore. It now belongs to a certain SS officer … aren't you supposed to be able to help?
Mr. Lowenstein: [to Stern; to Schindler]
The SS beat me up. They would have killed me, but I'm essential to the war effort, thanks to you. … I work hard for you. … I'll continue to work hard for you. … God bless you, sir. … You're a good man. … He saved my life. … God bless him. … God bless you.
Clerk: [to Schindler, about Stern]
I'm sorry. You can't have him. He's on the list. If he were an essential worker, he would not be on the list … it makes no difference to us, you understand. This one, that one. It's the inconvenience to the list. It's the paperwork.
SS Officer: [to Schindler, about relocating to Płaszów]
Since your labor is housed onsite, it's available to you at all times. You can work them all night if you want. Your factory policies, whatever they've been in the past, they'll continue to be, they'll be respected.
Oberführer Scherner: [to Schindler]
We give you Jewish girls at five marks a day, Oskar. You should kiss us, not them. God forbid you ever get a real taste for Jewish skirt – there's no future in it. No future. They don't have a future. And that's not just good old-fashioned Jew-hating talk. It's policy now.
Winston Churchill (on radio): [[Dwight Eisenhower|General Eisenhower; [Alfred Jodl|General Jodl]
Yesterday morning, at 2:41 AM, at ]'s headquarters, ] signed the act of unconditional surrender of all German land, sea, and air forces in Europe to the Allied Expeditionary Force and simultaneously to the Soviet High Command. The German war is therefore at an end. But let us not forget for a moment …
Rabbi Lewartow: [to Schindler]
We've written a letter trying to explain things in case you are captured. Every worker has signed it.
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Amon Goeth was arrested while a patient in a sanatorium at Bad Tolz. He was hanged in Kraków for crimes against humanity. … Oskar Schindler failed at his marriage and several businesses after the war. … in 1958, he was declared a righteous person by the council of the Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, and invited to plant a tree in the Avenue of the Righteous. It grows there still. … The Schindler Jews today. … There are fewer than four thousand Jews left alive in Poland today. There are more than six thousand descendants of the Schindler Jews. … In memory of the more than six million Jews murdered.
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