This DESTROYED US! | Watching SCHINDLER'S LIST (1993) For First Time

[@erikaronska1096]

This movie should be seen by every person at least once in their life. Never forget.

[@DaKidsReact]

Totally agree

[@timbuktu8069]

Especially college kids.

[@ym5891]

@@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.

[@montrelouisebohon-harris7023]

I heard that when the director went to meet the lead actor and shook his hand that the moment he laid eyes upon him shook hands with him and just started talking he knew Batman was Schindler.. sure enough he was.. I'm seeing clips of the new movie but I've never seen the entire movie

[@montrelouisebohon-harris7023]

​@@timbuktu8069 indeed they do college kids and people in their twenties since 60% or more of them don't go to college and then even some people in their thirties... It wouldn't hurt high school kids to see it either.. I went to school in the 1970s and 80s during the Cold War and everything was anti-communism!!! It's pure evil and our government has a lot of problems and a lot of corruption & the bureaucracy is most corrupt and so is the CIA and FBI but they're not elected officials but they get into government and they have a lot of power and create a lot of problems... It's a lot of the bureaucrats working with the media that try to silence people and do their best to censor everything- NOW all of a sudden CNN and MSNBC act so shocked about Joe Biden and they can't be honestly surprised because they've hidden everything about this family for a long long time... It is possible that they may not have known because after the debate Jake Tapper said "you can't tell people they didn't see what they saw and that they didn't hear what they did hear!" He's right because to do that would be gaslighting and the press secretary does that all the time...

[@lilychris811]

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.

[@Eowyn187]

"Evil flourishes when good men do nothing."

[@MaynardsSpaceship]

Silence is compliance.

[@saturahman7510]

Thank you for your video. It is important.

[@user-sx6eu4rg2x]

Sad thing is many have forgotten, especially when we see what's happening today.

[@TheTurinturumbar]

How many genocides since then? We forgot it in the only sense that matters a couple of years after.

[@alliel9970]

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.

[@DaKidsReact]

He could finally show how much he truly cared. Broke our hearts watching that scene. Agreed, incredible movie.

[@charlesbradshaw]

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[@RunswScissors]

Me too

[@melancholyghost18]

Same here

[@Kepi_Kei]

Such an incredible man.

[@pauletteriddle3776]

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.

[@dorindas7330]

I was going to say the same thing. As bad as it was in the movie, in reality it was so much worse 😢

[@bambooseragardenista8329]

They really softened the truth of what really happened, which was so much more horrific that most people wouldn't be able to watch the movie.

[@patticrichton1135]

@@bambooseragardenista8329 That is SO true. I saw documentaries back in the late '50s and early '60s, with actual film footage of what was really done to people in the camps, and how the survivors looked when the camps were liberated (like living skeletons, literally just skin and bone from starvation), the experiments that were done on people, the torture, etc. I was 11-14 years old when I saw these. Yes it was HORRIFIC, but I am glad I saw it, because i will NEVER forget it, and I don't EVER want anything like that to happen again! I WISH they would bring those films back (much of it was filmed BY the Nazi party when this was all taking place. They didn't manage to destroy everything (film evidence) and so it was found by the Allies and then made public around the time I saw this films on TV.

[@dawnhauton7543]

Sophie's choice broke my heart in so many ways.....

[@14FrensAnd88Eagles]

@@patticrichton1135 Why were they starved? Because the stinking Allies cut off all the food. EVERYONE was starving. The ALLIES even bombed some of those camps...war crimes. But only the Germans did wrong. The Germans locked up reds and enemies of the state. Something every country would do in their situation. Those films were very deceptive, on purpose.

[@texasps91]

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!

[@DaKidsReact]

Appreciate the kind words and love! ❤ I definitely wonder what the number is today, it would be amazing to know!

[@daedalron]

@@DaKidsReact Last number known was in 2012, they were 8,500. So they should be coming close to 10,000 in 2024, or somewhere around that number.

[@carmenburton4918]

​@DaKidsReact my grandfather fought in the war, got captured, escaped. A old women in a captured transport told him to try jump from the moving train..he did, got shot, but survived. Its because of this that I went to Auchwitz. She hD told him the rumours of the camps but he didn't believe her. She was proved right. I went to the camp and in one display were shoes of people the got gased immediately.. I will never forget a pair of shoes for a child no older than 6 with the name Rebecka written in each shoe. It broke me, after that we went to the gas chamber and got locked in to feel, maybe what the last moments of the victims were like, after that we went past the body ovens. Bear in mind that these are the original real buildings.. I couldn't continue. I've seen people killed I'm front of my eyes and have a strong stoic resolve for a women..but those shoes... after I saw them..and the chamber and ovens..I just couldn't.. I burst into tears in front of our guide. He asked if my family had lost people.. my mother family left Belgium/Holland in 1912 to 1923.. so we lost contact with the 3 people who stayed behind.. my mother families were very strict Christians. And 4 years after I went to Auchwitz.. I tried looking my family up as I had moved back to Europe.. the 2 ladies I could find no record of after WW2.. but her great uncle was execute at Sobibor I had no family left in Europe from her side at all.. there's nothing left at Sobibor..just a memorial... so I'm glad I put flowers down at Auchwitz 4 years before. When I was at school in Africa, we had refugees from China, Rwanda and Zaire(now DRC).. GENOCIDE after genocide.. my Rwandan friends entire family was chopped up..she somehow survived with heinous scars.. andvwas adopted by a white family in SA. PLEASE watch "Hotel Rwanda " but at the end of the movie it says that 800000 people were killed in 6 weeks.. to be fair..its closer to 2million killed in 8weeks. Red Cross and amnesty International were there and dudnt do a damn thing to save ANYONE. Breaks my heart... to this day , they are still finding mass graves in Rwanda .. Thank you fir watching this..we must never forget.. the Armmenian genocide and Nigerian Christian genocide don't even make the need these days.. It seems humans never change..unfortunately

[@FredAlexander-wx5sp]

I AGREE!

[@aleatharhea]

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.

[@mithroch]

The scene between Schindler and Stern... where Stern finally willingly takes a drink with Schindler after refusing the entire movie... gets me every time.

[@sefafefa]

Me too, more than "i could have got more" one...

[@kylaarmstrong-benjamin8066]

At that moment, he accepted that he was a real friend. And no longer involved just to make himself rich anymore. He saw an opportunity to get rich, but the opportunity to save lives, outweighed his original plans and he HAD to do the right thing, because he just couldn't see what was happening and do nothing.

[@Tolkienlady]

"Evil is allowed to continue when good people do nothing." - author unknown Never say, "It's none of my business." People's suffering is ALWAYS our business.

[@Kindnessloveunderstanding]

Yes yes yes, amen

[@kimmypfeiffer9130]

the sad thing is that people don't always recognize 'evil'

[@xhagast]

@@kimmypfeiffer9130 When they came to get the Communists, I said nothing, I wasn't a Communist. When they came to get the Jews, I said nothing, I wasn't a Jew. When they came to get the Democrats, I said nothing, I wasn't a Democrat. When they came to get the Catholics, I said nothing, I wasn't a Catholic. When they came to get me, nobody said anything, there was nobody left.

[@Dej24601]

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.”

[@fredfinks]

it was hitler, theres a deleted scene inwhich schindler gifts him a fancy shaving kit in a christmas hamper.

[@Dej24601]

@@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.

[@fredfinks]

@@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.

[@SPT1]

@@fredfinks lol good trolling

[@G02372]

@@fredfinks😂😂😂

[@leslieoneal4464]

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.

[@TheTurinturumbar]

Nah, just another mf. Look up Stanford prison experiment and the Milgram study.

[@user-tm8jt2py3d]

yeah, we've heard some pretty wild stories about what went on. some very wild, crazy, some would say almost unbelievable stories.

[@MrVvulf]

The movie barely touched on the experimentation conducted on the prisoners - horrific stuff.

[@DaKidsReact]

A lot of people have made this comment, couldn't imagine what this people really went through being around this guy.

[@ahoyforsenchou7288]

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.

[@paulinarodier7999]

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.

[@saturahman7510]

Yes. So much respect for all of them and all of you as well. Greetings from Finland

[@johnwest5837]

Greetings from Texas, Finland.

[@qwert86055]

Do the Auschwitz guides still tell stories about human soap and lampshades?

[@thepontiacbandit7329]

In Israel too.

[@annephillips8494]

There is YT footage of local Civilians being made to visit a camp and see what went on there Harrowing.​@@qwert86055

[@AgnesPerditaX]

Thank you for bringing this film to a new audience. It is really important not to lose the knowledge of such horrors people can do to other people. Let's not forget. 💔

[@Bravo-ry9st]

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.

[@Gallawenn]

All my classroom went to the cinema to see this film, and we were only 14 years old. Thank goodness my generation used to see a lot of movies about WW2, and most of us had read many books about the Holocaust, but the movie was hard to see for us. I also remember seing some films about the WW1, about the apartheid in South Africa, the slavery, the civil war in my country (Spain)... and we were just kids. Our parents and grandparents wanted us to know about the history, and movies were the faster way. No filters, they let us saw almost anything and they didn't mind how hard the story was. Not very sure if that was good or bad for us (GenXs)

[@ky9933]

LOVE Hotel Rwanda and this film too

[@nac.mac.feegle]

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.

[@melissahillyer1119]

Sadly, it’s happening again, NOW. This level of hate has never been acceptable before. Never forget where it leads. 😥

[@liamwinchesterchasten2229]

And now THIS is what the GOP today are trying to turn America into in the here and now.

[@kimmypfeiffer9130]

yes, the democrat party and their media minions have many 'good' people fooled into believing the people that disagree with them are 'nazi's' and they dehumanize trump supporters making it ok to attack and kill them...and they refuse to see it... the biggest difference between the U.S. and 1930's germany is that we have not and will not allow ourselves to be disarmed...

[@kimmypfeiffer9130]

@@melissahillyer1119 and never disarm!

[@bassnazi4713]

It goes back to the end of the first World War...Germany got punished severely, then the Great Depression hit. Many blamed the higher people involved in politics and finance, on top of the fact they surrendered when actually doing quite well. It was a festering thing that some knew might occur at the end of the peace deals.

[@3ScotsInk]

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.

[@DaKidsReact]

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.

[@kimmypfeiffer9130]

yes, the democrat party and their media minions have many 'good' people fooled into believing the people that disagree with them are 'nazi's' and they dehumanize trump supporters making it ok to attack and kill them...and they refuse to see it... the biggest difference between the U.S. and 1930's germany is that we have not and will not allow ourselves to be disarmed...

[@Serai3]

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.

[@jeffsherk7056]

Thank you for sharing these stories with us.

[@Serai3]

@@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?)

[@Konterfeit]

​@@Serai3 John Rabe probably takes the cake in that regard.

[@sivonni]

Albert Goring, the brother of Hermann Goring (one of Hitler's top men), helped many Jews escape in a manner similar to Schindler (buying labor) but he just let them go. He also forged his brother's signature to help many get out of Poland, I think. No one did anything to him because of who his brother was. There were tons of stories where he did stuff publicly just because he could. One I remember is Nazis made Jewish women scrub the street one day and Albert saw them being humiliated and got down to scrub with them. The Nazis checked his ID and, seeing who he was, stopped the women scrubbing just so Albert would stop the public display. Most people hated him after the war because of who his brother was but tons of Jews came forward with stories during the Nuremberg trials to save his life.

[@sherglovier3393]

Calling Schindler a “Sheep in wolf’s clothing” is a brilliant way to describe how he manipulated the stupid Amon Goeth and the Nazi system. Hitler wasn’t in the movie, a lot of Nazis were pretty much interchangeable - all evil, all brainwashed, unredeemable. This story is basically true. Schindler lived and saved the people on the list. Of course, to make a movie, some things had to be changed, but it’s basically true.

[@bg7606]

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.

[@DaKidsReact]

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.

[@SerTasera]

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".

[@stephanthomas4410]

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.

[@jaelzion]

It's crazy, there's even a family resemblance between them.

[@DaKidsReact]

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!

[@stephanthomas4410]

@@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 ;)

[@ahoyforsenchou7288]

@@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.

[@ilove6kies]

Don’t know you realized it by now but that demonic SS officer Amon Goeth is played by Ralph Fiennes - who portrayed Voldermort

[@vixenwinters6375]

don't forget Pharaoh Ramses!

[@Vanipollonia1]

@@vixenwinters6375 And Voldemort.

[@vixenwinters6375]

@@Vanipollonia1 lol check original comment. did you mean to name a different character?

[@Vanipollonia1]

@@vixenwinters6375 lol! I did not see that comment before. It may have been edited. Oh well! 😁

[@WileChile51]

@@vixenwinters6375 That is one of my favorite roles of his, his voice acting is fn fantastic.

[@Kepi_Kei]

That last scene where it turns into color and you see the survivors coming over the hill makes me weep every time. Thank God for Oskar Schindler.

[@michellegray7892]

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

[@sheldonf]

Child, please.

[@Kepi_Kei]

@@sheldonf This is just a rumor that has been going around for years. If people would look at Ammon Goethe's picture they would realize not only does Ralph Fiennes not look anything like him, he is much more handsome. People these days seem to accept anything they hear or read or see as fact.

[@babyfry4775]

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.

[@russellward4624]

Williams called him every night. Jerry Seinfeld woukd send him the daisy's from Seinfeld also.

[@troymash8109]

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.

[@MsMungus]

Typhus victims that died after the camp was liberated

[@troymash8109]

@@MsMungus He once beat two college students to near death for saying what you just said. 1951. Judge threw the charges out. You're an imbecile.

[@Aqua23-ammg]

They actually had survivors on the set who had suffered through Amon Goeth´s cruelties at the camp. When they saw Ralph Fiennes in full costume and make up, they began shaking incontrollably to the point of almost passing out. That´s how much he resembled their torturer and how deep the trauma was, despite so many decades having passed since the liberation.

[@josephinelamkins7661]

😮🥺🥺🥺 wow

[@hasicazulatv2078]

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.

[@maryrichardson1318]

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.

[@LordLOC]

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?

[@Dreamfox-df6bg]

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.

[@DaKidsReact]

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.

[@stephanthomas4410]

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”.

[@ahoyforsenchou7288]

Except she was right and it didn't happen. WOODEN DOORS!

[@luxiwow2615]

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

[@DaKidsReact]

Appreciate the love and support! Happy you enjoyed it!

[@FredAlexander-wx5sp]

I know you meant lesser than.

[@louielouie22]

Heart wrenching when he realized he could've gotten one more person. (The little girl in red)

[@DaKidsReact]

So sad! He knew that thought would haunt him. Masterpiece of a film.

[@GSP-76]

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.

[@Abi_81]

The girl in red is symbolic of the world ignoring something so clear and obvious; the genocide of the Jews. The world knew what Hitler was doing in Poland, but Europe only started caring when Hitler started invading their countries. The murder of the Jews is like the girl in red - everybody sees her, but nobody tries to save her.

[@piotrjeske4599]

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.

[@DaKidsReact]

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.

[@g1015m]

Your greatgrandmorher is a hero, I hope to thank her one day.

[@DarkSister.]

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 😔

[@CBGB_1977]

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.

[@Emilyb21-dm3bf]

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

[@xhagast]

Watch Kenneth Brannagh's Conspiracy. And I get the AWFUL feeling that the Ns were actually being kind. They wanted rid of the lot. The gas chambers were quicker and less painful than starving or croaking of cholera. Stalin was crueler. And he prosecuted his own people.

[@mithroch]

Liam Neeson was a journeyman actor, minor and secondary roles for years until Schindler's List made him an A-list lead actor.

[@brooklynbridgealias]

He was married to Natasha Richardson - daughter of anti-Semite Vanessa Redgrave.

[@kimmypfeiffer9130]

i remember him from 'the bounty'..he had a lucky face!

[@MomCatMeows]

Schindler was in denial of what was happening around him for a good portion of this movie. Such a beautiful character transformation. ♥️🙏

[@DaKidsReact]

Agreed beautiful character transformation.

[@BigTroyT]

No, he wasn't in denial - he was just selfish and looking to take advantage and finally become successful. He originally didn't care about the Jews. But spending time around them, and especially around Stern, and also around the Nazis - particularly Goethe - slowly changed his mind. He gradually changed from putting himself above all-else to putting the Jews above all-else. It was definitely a transformation, but at the beginning, he knew full well what he was doing. He went from amoral to being moral.

[@MomCatMeows]

@@BigTroyT I agree, he was all of those things

[@daedalron]

@@BigTroyT Schindler was a war profiteer, and he was totally fine with having jews as slave working for his factory. But his bottom-line was still way more humane than the other nazis: Working them as slave was fine for him, but slaughtering them by the masses was not. And being confronted with Goeth, who was particularly evil and cruel, even by SS standards, probably helped Schindler make the decision that this was going too far, and he needed to save those people.

[@xhagast]

@@MomCatMeows Right now tens of thousands are starving in Sudan or Ethiopia. You are not seeing it; you are not involved. Things happen, people die. Shindler had it happen on his doorstep, and he could do something. He fed his unpaid Jewish laborers. It began there.

[@deborahwinder3617]

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.

[@DaKidsReact]

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.

[@kylaarmstrong-benjamin8066]

I saw this in the theater with my Jewish youth group, our Rabbi, our Jewish history teacher and 2 elders of our synagogue that were survivors and one of them was the grandfather of Ryan in our group. We'd already heard his experience just prior to seeing this film. I was 15 years old... We kids were crying so hard and holding each other's arms throughout the whole movie .... But at the end when the Schindler Jews today appeared on screen... We all stood up and cheered crying tears of joy 🥹 Not just us.... But the ENTIRE THEATER!!!❤

[@xhagast]

@@kylaarmstrong-benjamin8066 It was as happy an ending as a Holocaust story can have.

[@kylaarmstrong-benjamin8066]

@@xhagast absolutely!

[@xhagast]

@@kylaarmstrong-benjamin8066 Spielberg's note about there being over 6000 descendants of the Shindler Jews was his spitting on the Nzs. And they are 10,000 today.

[@LightMovies]

I suggest "The Pianist", another great true story about the Nazi period.

[@stephanthomas4410]

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.

[@MCrvngraddip2013]

"The Pianist" is in my top favourite movies ❤😢

[@Mus1c1luv]

It's important that young people learn about world history and the Holocaust so that it will never be repeated. Great reaction, guys.

[@goldilox369]

It IS important. Unfortunately, there have been and still are genocides throughout the world today. It's hard to see.

[@seulk7527]

It’s unfortunate when you say this because they’re still concentration camps till this day

[@iaminsideyourhome69]

it is currently being repeated

[@michaelhuie5878]

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.

[@VoicesfromtheSwamp]

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.

[@CatBuchanan]

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.

[@hasicazulatv2078]

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.

[@hasicazulatv2078]

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.

[@DLites151]

Why are there so many "survivors" of these camps?

[@daedalron]

@@CatBuchanan No, it was not 100% correct. It was toned down quite a bit, Goeth would have appeared as cartoonishly evil and unbelievable if they had done it 100% correct. So they tried to humanize him with the lust for Helen Hirsch (never happened, though he enjoyed ordering them (they were 2 maids in real life) to get naked before beating them up). And they avoided to show the harsher executions, like when he ordered his dogs to tear apart inmates.

[@cog4life]

When you hear the words”essential” and “non-essential “ workers , in light of 2020, it gives me chills

[@emmarose6590]

Or when the unvaccinated were losing jobs and being kept out of business places like restaurants

[@denisebennettahrentzen8340]

It’s more important than ever to remember that these things happened and can easily happen again if we don’t pay attention.

[@nac.mac.feegle]

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.

[@GSP-76]

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.

[@Standgedicht]

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.”

[@Standgedicht]

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!"

[@pattis2641]

@@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.

[@beesnort3163]

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.

[@darajeeling]

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

[@calebsmommy812]

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.

[@ahoyforsenchou7288]

>We all have to learn and make sure something like that never happens again Got bad news for you regarding Israel and Palestine...

[@nac.mac.feegle]

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.

[@xviper2k]

@@ahoyforsenchou7288 Not comparable, at all. The Jews didn't start a war with Germany.

[@hasicazulatv2078]

Even some germans during this time were against the war.

[@debraleesparks]

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.. Love Grandma Debbie

[@DaKidsReact]

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!

[@xhagast]

@@DaKidsReact I tell everybody to NEVER forget that we are all Jews to somebody.

[@brandiwebb930]

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

[@Harbringe]

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.

[@markdiamond6575]

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.

[@DaKidsReact]

We appreciate you & your support💙

[@Eowyn187]

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.

[@biffmarcum5014]

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!

[@Eowyn187]

@@biffmarcum5014 I heard her speak of that and much more, on the day I was speaking of.

[@maryrichardson1318]

I too was blessed to hear her speak. Something I will never forget.

[@robbinsnest6163]

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

[@Eowyn187]

@@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 😆

[@lisahumphries3898]

Another hard movie to watch, but true is The Killing Fields. About Cambodia at the end of the Vietnam War.

[@mark-be9mq]

Good suggestion

[@DaKidsReact]

We'll have to check this out!

[@belindawilson1350]

I thought exactly the same thing. The tears just rolled down every time I watched it. The endure of some people is amazing.😢❤

[@sannaolsson9106]

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.

[@MrGrifter123]

I didn’t watch the whole thing yet and I knew they were going to say something like that 😂😂

[@maryrichardson1318]

It is the equivalent of "Hail Caesar" which would have been a greeting by ancient Roman warriors. Basically Hail to the King.

[@stephanthomas4410]

@@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”.

[@SAXklon-b]

we used to salute the flag the same way, look up bellamy salute....

[@stephanthomas4410]

@@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).

[@kristilouque8412]

You guys are genuine and intuitive. Great reaction. Keep looking at smart, quality films. We will watch.❤️

[@DaKidsReact]

Appreciate the love and the kind words!! We will keep doing our best to bring you guys great content!

[@markjohnson2079]

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...

[@lisakropp3881]

I've talked to survivors. This was very accurate. No Hollywood. History.

[@krazycatz]

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.

[@BractosCrash]

Fake

[@krazycatz]

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.

[@willgold9989]

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”.

[@loristime6607]

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.

[@gunillaforsstrom767]

Wonderful film! ❤

[@BerniceHayden]

Excellent movie....oh my heart

[@maralinekozial9131]

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 !!!!

[@Teddy_The_Runner]

This looks like an AI-generated comment

[@MrsDuck356]

I also heard that he had a hard time playing that character and even had to cry sometimes

[@imjorkingmypeanits]

I thought you were talking about the actor for a full second

[@spazzyshortgirl23]

Did Fiennes not win best supporting?

[@HeidiKunkel]

Great reaction guys! Worth the wait! Watching the survivors place the rocks on Oskars grave gets me every time.

[@DaKidsReact]

Appreciate the love and just when you think you can put away the water works that amazing scene is played! lol

[@biffmarcum5014]

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.

[@whiterabbit201]

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.

[@DaKidsReact]

Can't even imagine the feeling.

[@JoeNienaberNienaber]

I have watched over 20 Schindlers List reactions. your editing has to be in top 3. Excellent job. Nice reaction also.

[@DaKidsReact]

Appreciate the love! Swizz tried his best to get as much as he could in for you guys to enjoy with us. He did an amazing job.

[@bruno3778]

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!

[@DaKidsReact]

Appreciate the love!! We are so happy you are able to enjoy our content, we do our best to keep bringing content to this quality!

[@gabriellesutherlandphd5731]

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.

[@dond3r183]

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.

[@iraboss6691]

The angel of death was josef mengele

[@johannesvalterdivizzini1523]

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.

[@dond3r183]

@@iraboss6691 Thanks youre right edit it.. It was The Butcher of Płaszów

[@dond3r183]

@@johannesvalterdivizzini1523 Youre right, i correct it. Thanks!

[@iraboss6691]

@@dond3r183 yes your correct there. All good bro

[@JBugz777]

Great reaction (Except the part where you thought Hitler was visiting some death camp in Poland.. He didn't get his hands dirty like that + He had a mustache...)

[@erincarnaudrey]

Great reaction! This movie makes me cry every time.

[@johnwest5837]

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.

[@johnwest5837]

Spielberg didn't want her to see the movie till she was at least 18, she saw it when she was about 12 .

[@ahoyforsenchou7288]

Does that mean Ukraine can give us our hundreds of billions of tax dollars back?

[@MrAverageViewer]

Powerful true story! Powerful and thoughtful reaction! Thank you!

[@DaKidsReact]

Thank you for the support and love!

[@solvingpolitics3172]

Thank you for your genuine reaction.

[@DaKidsReact]

Appreciate you sticking around, happy you enjoyed your time with us!

[@sspdirect02]

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.

[@joek600]

Frankly if that is even true then it doesnt paint Spielberg in a good light at all.

[@tobaobokoomi1693]

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

[@DaKidsReact]

Just wow. Thank you for sharing the story of your great grandparents. Can't imagine all the emotions they went through.

[@2old4gamez]

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.

[@krisfrederick5001]

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.

[@krisfrederick5001]

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.

[@dneill8493]

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.

[@r2d2rxr]

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

[@DaKidsReact]

Appreciate the love! We are happy we were able to bring this reaction to you guys. Like many said, it’s a hard watch but it’s definitely necessary.

[@yuriboyka9927]

Whenever someone says "what can I do, I'm just one person" they should watch this movie. One righteous man saved so many lives.

[@DaKidsReact]

100% agree!

[@Eds1284]

Im 50 years old from austria and both grandparents lived at that time. We grow up with that horryfying stories at home and in school. Guilt was placed within us and when i was 14 i almost believed that i did all this. It is good that our countries faced the past history, but it also was on the back of all kids of the after-war-era

[@DeathBeforeComicSans]

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.

[@callherfoofoo]

"The boy in the striped pajamas" Its so good yall should watch

[@DaKidsReact]

We are going to try our best to get that movie in whenever we can!!

[@melissahillyer1119]

@@DaKidsReactit is gut wrenching. I cried so much during that one too

[@Sonja-y6m]

That movie is fiction. Sad, yes, but untrue. It never happened! It never could.

[@ccchhhrrriiisss100]

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!

[@DaKidsReact]

Thank you! Appreciate the love!

[@kathramsay1569]

Thank you for the most mature reaction to this film I’ve ever seen.❤❤

[@micheletrainor1601]

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.

[@ethanwinnegrad3402]

That professor as some balls. If this os an ‘A-‘, then an ‘A’ movie simply doesnt exist

[@micheletrainor1601]

@@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.

[@johannesvalterdivizzini1523]

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.

[@rayharley597]

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

[@michelemichi]

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.

[@kylaarmstrong-benjamin8066]

I really appreciate you guys watching this! As difficult and heart wrenching as it is, it's a very important film, it's important that people know about the genocide that was committed. I appreciate the seriousness and dedication to understanding these characters are actual HUMAN beings! Able to live and have life beyond themselves because of one man who was in this for himself...but just couldn't do nothing to help when he understood... He didn't even want the people making shells that worked! You guys commentary after the film was just awesome! This film really touched you guys the way it was meant to! Thank you for doing this!!!❤❤❤❤

[@CBGB_1977]

When my husband and I saw this in the theater we had to sit for a while after to collect ourselves. There were several people who had to do the same.

[@DaKidsReact]

Couldn’t imagine the feel the theaters gave… we took like 15-20 mins to digest the movie after watching it

[@majagara]

I remember how QUIET it was in the theatre right after the lights came on. People putting the chairs up silently, instead of letting them snap into place. I also watched this movie with a friend whose mum survived Auschwitz. Her mother popped over right in the middle of the film. Sat diwn, watched it with us a while. Then she stood up, said she should go, make dinner. It was awful to know that wonderful lady spent her teenage years in the camp.

[@2tone753]

I am a German from Berlin, 62 years old and was in Israel for several weeks while I was at school in 1977. Other students in our group and I lived and worked on a kibbutz. I will never forget how I met a man there who had the concentration camp number tattooed on his forearm. This encounter was decisive for the rest of my life. There is no forgetting for me. Anyone who thinks that time makes our actions forgotten is very much mistaken. You can't "elegantly" shirk responsibility. Since then I have been to Israel very often and have many friends there. They don't hold us younger people responsible for the actions of others, but they do urge caution. I myself am an atheist, the perpetrators of that time will never receive forgiveness from me. Our two children (30 + 34) see it the same way. Far too many were never charged or received ridiculous sentences. There was never an accounting for these peoples - and mass murder. This wasn't a "small" slip-up, but rather a rampage by representatives of an entire country. An excellent film with outstanding actors that aroused the interest of people who were otherwise uninterested in the subject for more information.

[@michellesmith4570]

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.

[@DaKidsReact]

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!

[@karencolb2566]

For anyone interested, Steven Spielbergs Shoah Foundation actually has a large amount of filmed interviews with survivors from over the years. You can find them on KZbin.

[@joedirt688]

A MOVIE THAT SHOULD NOT EVER BE FORGOTTON, IN THIS LIFETIME, OR ANY FUTURE LIFETIME.

[@Ashley_e]

Saw this in high school as an assignment. I remember just being so sad. Incredible film.

[@rayvanhorn1534]

Hey guys, much respect to y’all for doing this film. So much evil in the world that brought agony & grief to tens of millions of people during that time. From all accounts, this film toned the actual events because reality would be just too much for viewers to watch. The black & white played a role all its own for this; the shadowing plus the contrasts showed the heaviness & desperation. I cannot imagine the horror those people went through in Europe & Southeast Asia. Have a suggestion for you that could be considered an addition to this; the film “Conspiracy” from 2001. It shows the root process as to how it all came to be.

[@DaKidsReact]

Appreciate the love!! We've heard that a lot that the film was toned because the horrors were too much to show. We will have to check out that film and see how the schedule looks. We have been getting a lot of great recommendations, so thank you for another one!

[@aliceB357]

The saddest part for me is the end. When I cry’s over the one he could not save.

[@jeanine6328]

Oh boy, this is a tough one to jump into blind. Even with foreknowledge it’s hard hitting.

[@kathramsay1569]

What a brilliant reaction! Many reactors don’t follow closely, understand the horror, or believe Schindler could change. You did! Bravo! ❤❤

[@johnrogan9729]

The little girl screaming Goodbye Jews at the beginning of the movie….that same vitriol and hatred is happening right now on our college campuses toward Jewish students. Despicable.

[@johannesvalterdivizzini1523]

No comparison

[@hayleyferguson3346]

Absolutely. I've witnessed the shouts of hate towards Jews at our local campus. Disgusting.

[@realitycheck5376]

Another great reaction guys! Your comments during and after the movie really show that you absorb everything that your watching and that you truly GET IT! Not all reactors seem to do that. However, there is just one thing that I'm sure you already know but that was not Hitler. Lol. If you guys are interested there's plenty of documentaries on Hitler right here on KZbin that you might find fascinating.

[@DaKidsReact]

Thank you so much and we are happy that we could give you guys a quality reaction that you could enjoy and feel. Also lol I don't know what were thinking but happy we were able to give a few people some laughs during that scene 😂

[@brooklynbridgealias]

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.

[@catholicprodigal]

I cry every time I watch this. They have the Holocaust Museum in Manhattan if you are ever in the City you should go, it has so many photos and artifacts from WWII. I bring my kids there often to remind them we can never allow anything like this to happen again. My grandfather liberated two concentration camps with his regiment, he never was the same after seeing the bodies and the survivors, they were skin and bones.

[@bluelotus369]

Your never quite the same after watching this masterpiece ❤😢❤

[@sammie8923]

The Pianist with Adrian Brody was good too

[@robertcampomizzi7988]

10:29 There was a court, but Jews couldn't appeal to the couet for remedy. 14:19 Nylon was brand new but needed for war for rope and parachutes so hard to get.

[@Renske1006]

When they talk about deportation in project 2025, this is what I as an european see happening

[@history43487]

You guys are so smart in terms of what you pick up, what you notice, the subtle stuff, etc. Well done.

[@DaKidsReact]

This means a lot to us, thank you & much love💙

[@caroldelaney4700]

We all exist today because of what our brave soldiers stopped happening to the civilized world at that time.we are all so lucky.but not very grateful for the freedom we all share.sacrifices were made.let’s never forget.