Spielberg and the 6 Million

[Bruce Appelbaum]

     Schindler was certainly not a saint, and he was not portrayed as a 
     saint in the film.
     
     However, he did what he could to keep those people alive.  Yes, they 
     were basically slave labor.  But Schindler did what he could to 
     provide for them and treat them as humans, which is more than the 
     Nazis and their local cohorts did.  
     
     I don't think the horrors of Auschwitz were at all softpedaled -- they 
     lurked in the background for most of the film and were in the 
     foreground in the rest.


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Subject: Re[2]: Spielberg and the 6 Million
Author:  <LBernier at tribune.com> at Internet
Date:    6/11/96 10:37 AM


  Steely sez:
     
        The only redeeming virtue of Schindler's List--which, afterall,     
        glorified a businessman who utilized slave labor and soft-pedaled   
        the horror chambers of Auschwitz--was Y. Perlman's haunting score,  
        IM--humble--O.
     
  So, would it have been better if Schindler had been a flawless man who 
  chose not to utilize slave labor, and all those people had died?  This is 
  not a black & white issue.  Do not judge it as such.
     
  Jean.