Schindler's List Themes

The Holocaust was defined by hate, pure and simple. The Nazis came up with lots of elaborate philosophical explanations as to why they needed to do what they did. But in the end, it came down to pu...

Oskar Schindler's a smart guy: a real con artist in every way that counts. In Schindler's List, we see that he wines and dines the local Nazi elite so they'll be cooperative to his business proposa...

The Nazis were big on national and racial identity; they loved labels and uniforms and classification. After all, you had to label people—Jew or homosexual or "mental defective"—so you knew how...

It's no mistake that the movie opens with a Jewish prayer and closes in a Jewish cemetery. Steven Spielberg wanted to recount this awful period in human history, but he also wanted to show it as a...

Any movie with Nazis has its bad guys all set. You don't get more evil than the Nazis, and, in Schindler's List, we see them in Maximum Evil mode. Yet at the same time, there's something utterly ba...

Throughout Schindler's List, Spielberg emphasizes the bonds that connect the Jewish people to their community. We see the way that they interact with each other—as friends, as neighbors, as folks...