History Fridge / SchindlersList

* Chances are that there were many other people who, like Schindler, tried to save a lot of innocent Jews. Unfortunately, many of those heroes were caught early on, and their plans failed, and no one ever made a movie about them.

* Chances are that there were many other people who, like Schindler, tried to save a lot of innocent Jews. Unfortunately, many of those heroes were caught early on, and their plans failed, and no one ever made a movie about them.
** Many such people are not even ''[[UnPerson remembered]]'' for their attempted heroism, particularly if all their allies died with them and there was no one left alive who knew what they'd been trying to do.

* A very scary thought is that if others had witnessed the atrocities being committed firsthand as Schindler did during the liquidation scene, they too may have made an effort to defy the Nazis. Remember that racism and prejudice had been a normal part of society around the world for millennia. The Nazis just took it to an extreme point. Many Europeans knew Jews were being rounded up and forced into Ghettos and work camps. They did not know they were being tortured and systematically exterminated. Most Americans weren't aware until many years after the war.
** That said, the world leaders were well aware of what was going on but didn't do anything until the US founded the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Refugee_Board War Refugee Board]] in 1944, 2 years after the Nazis had made their intention for a FinalSolution official.

* All those [[SarcasmMode wonderful]] things Amon Goeth has done? They were based on his actions in Real Life, except deliberately downplayed due to the [[RealityIsUnrealistic belief that nobody would believe anyone like him could exist in real life]]. And some critics ''[[GoodCannotComprehendEvil still expressed disbelief that anyone could be that wantonly monstrous]].''

* A bit of self-inflicted FridgeHorror Schindler puts on himself is that he believes the little girl in red is safe. After all, he turns away from the horrible scene when he spots her hiding in a building unnoticed. When she turns up at the cremation scene, he is struck with how merciless the Nazi's efforts are...
** Steven Spielberg has gone on record to explain his reason for using color in that scene. He intended it as a TakeThat directed toward the US government during World War II, which learned about the plight of European Jews early on but did nothing to stop it. All the evidence was there, as obvious as the red coat standing out against the black-and-white ghetto streets, but no one acted on it.
* That poor little girl is FridgeHorror regardless. She's far too young to be wandering around on her own, which means that at best, she and her parents got separated in the chaos and she's desperately trying to find them (and they her), or at worst--and most likely--they've been killed, probably right in front of her, and she's just as desperately trying to find someplace to hide. The last we see of her, she ''has'' managed to find somewhere, but now we have the FridgeHorror of realizing that she was among those killed when the Nazis returned that night to find those who escaped.

* The title of the movie ''[[Film/SchindlersList Schindler's List]]'' became this for this Swedish troper. When the movie was released most foreign movies were given Swedish titles, and with this film they simply dropped the apostrophe, making its Swedish title "''Schindlers list''". Which translates into "Schindler's Plan/Strategy", or "Schindler's Cunningness". I always thought the title referred to the clever way in which he outsmarted the nazis and saved a lot of Jewish lives. It wasn't until I actually saw the movie, years after its release (I was too young to see it when it first came out), that I found out that the original title was "Schindler's List" and that it referred to the actual list he makes. My reaction was pretty much: "Holy shit!" That was a very clever way of giving the film a Swedish title, and to this day I prefer the Swedish to the original.
** This Dutch troper thought that the title has a double meaning, since indeed in Dutch the word 'list' means something like a cunning plan as well. But I also realized that there is a list in the film. It was only later that it dawned to me that there is no such meaning in English.

* A very scary thought is that if others had witnessed the atrocities being committed firsthand as Schindler did during the liquidation scene they too may have made an effort to defy the Nazis. Remember that racism and prejudism had been a normal part of society around the world for millennia. The Nazis just took it to an extreme point. Many Europeans knew Jews were being rounded up and forced into Ghettos and work camps. They did not know they were being tortured and systematically exterminated. Most Americans weren't aware until many years after the war.