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Schindler's List -- Historical Accuracy Research Proposal

There are several cliches meant to captivate the audience and reach their hearts. The scene where Schindler watches the little girl dressed in red running through the crowd is clearly an act of fiction. Also, the episode in which the German soldier plays the piano while all the hiding Jewish people are being murdered is invented. In spite of the fact that historians might not enjoy the movie, and, believe that it has a sugary script, they would have to consider the fact that it a movie in its essence. Movies are meant to have fiction involved in them so that the audience would not be fed up with the...

His wife, Emilie, also helped in providing adequate living conditions to "Schindler's Jews," as the people that Schindler saved had been called.
Works cited:

1. Raven, Greg. (1994). 'Schindler's List:' A review.. The Journal for Historical Review. 14(3). 7.

2. Smith, Dinitia. (2004, November 24). Oskar Schlindler's Legend Explored In Recent Biography. The New York Times.

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Works cited:

1. Raven, Greg. (1994). 'Schindler's List:' A review.. The Journal for Historical Review. 14(3). 7.

2. Smith, Dinitia. (2004, November 24). Oskar Schlindler's Legend Explored In Recent Biography. The New York Times.
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