Schindler's List

Amon Goeth:
They cast a spell on you, you know, the Jews. When you work closely with them, like I do, you see this. They have this power. It's like a virus. Some of my men are infected with this virus. They should be pitied, not punished. They should receive treatment because this is as real as typhus. I see it all the time. It's a matter of money? Hmm?

Amon Goeth:
The truth is always the right answer.

Itzhak Stern:
How many cigarettes have you smoked tonight?

Oskar Schindler:
Too many.

Itzhak Stern:
For every one you smoke, I smoke half.

Amon Goeth:
This is very cruel, Oskar. You're giving them hope. You shouldn't do that. *That's* cruel!

Itzhak Stern:
This list... is an absolute good. The list is life. All around its margins lies the gulf.

Oskar Schindler:
Stern, if this factory ever produces a shell that can actually be fired, I'll be very unhappy.

Amon Goeth:
Today is history. Today will be remembered. Years from now the young will ask with wonder about this day. Today is history and you are part of it. Six hundred years ago when elsewhere they were footing the blame for the Black Death, Casimir the Great - so called - told the Jews they could come to Krakow. They came. They trundled their belongings into the city. They settled. They took hold. They prospered in business, science, education, the arts. With nothing they came and with nothing they flourished. For six centuries there has been a Jewish Krakow. By this evening those six centuries will be a rumor. They never happened. Today is history.

Reiter:
I'm a graduate of Civil Engineering from the University of Milan.

Amon Goeth:
Ah, an educated Jew... like Karl Marx himself. Unterscharfuehrer!

Hujar:
Jawohl?

Amon Goeth:
Shoot her.

Reiter:
Herr Kommandant! I'm only trying to do my job!

Amon Goeth:
Ja, I'm doing mine.

Oskar Schindler:
Look, All you have to do is tell me what it's worth to you. What's a person worth to you?

Amon Goeth:
No, no, no, No. What's one worth to you!

Amon Goeth:
I would like so much to reach out to you and touch you in your loneliness. What would it be like, I wonder? What would be wrong with that? I realize that you are not a person in the strictest sense of the word, but, um, maybe you're right about that too. Maybe what's wrong, it's not us, it's this... I mean, when they compare you to vermin, to rodents and to lice. I just, uh, you make a good point. You make a very good point. Is this the face of a rat? Are these the eyes of a rat? "Hath not a Jew eyes?" I feel for you Helen.

Amon Goeth:
No, I don't think so. You Jewish b*tch, you nearly talked me into it, didn't you?

Oskar Schindler:
I could have got more out. I could have got more. I don't know. If I'd just... I could have got more.

Itzhak Stern:
Oskar, there are eleven hundred people who are alive because of you. Look at them.

Oskar Schindler:
If I'd made more money... I threw away so much money. You have no idea. If I'd just...

Itzhak Stern:
There will be generations because of what you did.

Oskar Schindler:
I didn't do enough!

Itzhak Stern:
You did so much.

Oskar Schindler:
This car. Goeth would have bought this car. Why did I keep the car? Ten people right there. Ten people. Ten more people.

Oskar Schindler:
This pin. Two people. This is gold. Two more people. He would have given me two for it, at least one. One more person. A person, Stern. For this.

Oskar Schindler:
I could have gotten one more person... and I didn't! And I... I didn't!

Itzhak Stern:
Let me understand. They put up all the money. I do all the work. What, if you don't mind my asking, would you do?

Oskar Schindler:
I'd make sure it's known the company's in business. I'd see that it had a certain panache. That's what I'm good at. Not the work, not the work... the presentation.

Amon Goeth:
You want these people?

Oskar Schindler:
These people. My people. I want my people.

Amon Goeth:
Who are you? Moses?

Helen Hirsch:
My first day here, he beat me because I threw out the bones from dinner. He came down at midnight and asked for them. And I asked him, I don't know how, I could never ask him now, I said, "Why are you beating me?" He said, "The reason I beat you now is because you ask why I beat you."

Oskar Schindler:
I am sorry for your troubles, Helen.

Helen Hirsch:
I have accepted them.

Oskar Schindler:
Accepted them?

Helen Hirsch:
One day, he will shoot me.

Oskar Schindler:
No, he won't shoot you.

Helen Hirsch:
He will. I see things. We were on the roof on Monday, young Lisiek and I and we saw the Herr Kommandant come out of the house on the patio right there below us and he drew his gun and shot a woman who was passing by. Just a woman with a bundle, just shot her through the throat. She was just a woman on her way somewhere, she was no faster or slower or fatter or thinner than anyone else and I couldn't guess what had she done. The more you see of the Herr Kommandant the more you see there are no set rules you can live by, you cannot say to yourself, "If I follow these rules, I will be safe."

Oskar Schindler:
He won't shoot you because he enjoys you too much. He enjoys you so much he won't even let you wear the star. He doesn't want anyone to know it's a Jew he's enjoying. He shot the woman from the steps because she meant nothing to him. She was just one of a series neither offending him or pleasing him.

Amon Goeth:
I pardon you.

Oskar Schindler:
Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't.

Amon Goeth:
You think that's power?

Oskar Schindler:
That's what the Emperor said. A man steals something, he's brought in before the Emperor, he throws himself down on the ground. He begs for his life, he knows he's going to die. And the Emperor... pardons him. This worthless man, he lets him go.

Amon Goeth:
I think you are drunk.

Oskar Schindler:
That's power, Amon. That is power.

Amon Goeth:
One of you is a very lucky girl. There is an opening for a job away from all this back-breaking work, in my new villa. Umm, which of you has domestic experience? Ja, on second thought, I don't really want someone else's maid. All those annoying habits I'd have to undo.

Oskar Schindler:
I've been speaking to Goeth.

Itzhak Stern:
I know the destination. These are the evacuation orders, I'm to help arrange the shipments, put myself on the last train.

Oskar Schindler:
That's not what I was going to say. I made Goeth promise to put in a good word for you. Nothing bad is going to happen to you there, you'll receive special treatment.

Itzhak Stern:
The directives coming in from Berlin talk about "special treatment" more and more often. I'd like to think that's not what you mean.

Oskar Schindler:
Preferential treatment. All right? Do we have to create a new language?

Itzhak Stern:
I think so.

Julian Scherner:
We give you a Jewish girl at five marks a day, Oskar. You should kiss us, not them. God forbid you ever get a real taste for Jewish skirt, there's no future in it. They don't have a future. That's not just good old fashioned Jew hating talk. It's policy now.

Itzhak Stern:
By law I have to tell you, sir, I'm a Jew.

Oskar Schindler:
Well, I'm a German, so there we are.

Itzhak Stern:
It's Hebrew, it's from the Talmud. It says, "Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire."

Oskar Schindler:
My father was fond of saying you need three things in life - a good doctor, a forgiving priest, and a clever accountant. The first two, I've never had much use for.

Oskar Schindler:
The unconditional surrender of Germany has just been announced. At midnight tonight, the war is over. Tomorrow you'll begin the process of looking for survivors of your families. In most cases... you won't find them. After six long years of murder, victims are being mourned throughout the world. We've survived. Many of you have come up to me and thanked me. Thank yourselves. Thank your fearless Stern, and others among you who worried about you and faced death at every moment. I am a member of the Nazi Party. I'm a munitions manufacturer. I'm a profiteer of slave labor. I am... a criminal. At midnight, you'll be free and I'll be hunted. I shall remain with you until five minutes after midnight, after which time - and I hope you'll forgive me - I have to flee.

Oskar Schindler:
I know you have received orders from our commandant, which he has received from his superiors, to dispose of the population of this camp. Now would be the time to do it. Here they are; they're all here. This is your opportunity. Or, you could leave, and return to your families as men instead of murderers.

Oskar Schindler:
In memory of the countless victims among your people, I ask us to observe three minutes of silence.

Amon Goeth:
It has a nice sheen to it. What is it, silk?

Oskar Schindler:
Of course! I'd say I'd get you one but the man who made it's probably dead.

Oskar Schindler:
They won't soon forget the name "Oskar Schindler" around here. "Oskar Schindler," they'll say, "everybody remembers him. He did something extraordinary. He did what no one else did. He came with nothing, a suitcase, and built a bankrupt company into a major manufactory. And left with a steamer trunk, two steamer trunks, of money. All the riches of the world."

Amon Goeth:
Scherner told me something else about you.

Oskar Schindler:
Yeah, what's that?

Amon Goeth:
That you know the meaning of the word 'gratitude.' That it's not some vague thing with you like it is with others. You want to stay where you are. You've got things going on the side, things are good. You don't want anybody telling you what to do. I can understand all that. You know, I know you... What you want is your own sub-camp. Do you have any idea what's involved? The paperwork alone? Forget you've got to build the f***ing thing, getting the f***ing permits is enough to drive you crazy. Then the engineers show up. They stand around, they argue about drainage, foundations, codes, exact specifications, parallel fences four kilometers long, six thousand kilograms of electrified fences... I'm telling you, you'll want to shoot somebody. I've been through it, you know, I know.

Oskar Schindler:
Well, you know, you've been through it. You could make things easier for me. I'd be grateful.

Oskar Schindler:
What are you doing? These are mine. These are my workers. They should be on my train. They're skilled ammunition workers. They're essential. Essential girls!

Oskar Schindler:
Their fingers polish the inside of shell metal casings. How else am I to polish the inside of a 45 millimeter shell casing? You tell me. You tell me!

Itzhak Stern:
There will be generations because of what you did.

Amon Goeth:
Can you believe this? As if I don't have enough to do, they come up with this? I have to find every rag buried up here and burn it. The party's over, Oskar. They're closing us down, sending everybody to Auschwitz.

Oskar Schindler:
When?

Amon Goeth:
I don't know. As soon as I can arrange the shipments, maybe thirty, forty days. That ought to be fun.

Russian officer:
You have been liberated by the Soviet army!

Itzhak Stern:
Have you been in Poland?

Russian officer:
I just came from Poland.

Itzhak Stern:
Are there any Jews left?

Russian officer:
Don't go east, that's for sure. They hate you there. I wouldn't go west either, if I were you.

Chaim Nowak:
We could use some food.

Russian officer:
Isn't that a town over there?

Oskar Schindler:
I could try to read this, or I could eat my lunch while it's still hot. We're doing well?

Itzhak Stern:
Yes.

Oskar Schindler:
Better this month than last?

Itzhak Stern:
Yes.

Oskar Schindler:
Any reason to think next month will be worse?

Itzhak Stern:
The war could end.

Itzhak Stern:
Somehow I left my work card at home. I tried to explain to them that it was a mistake, but... I'm sorry. It was stupid!

Oskar Schindler:
What if I got here five minutes later? Then where would I be?

Oskar Schindler:
What do you say we get your fire hoses out here and hose down the cars? Indulge me.

Amon Goeth:
Hujar.

Albert Hujar:
Yes sir?

Amon Goeth:
Bring the fire hoses.

Albert Hujar:
Where's the fire?

Oskar Schindler:
How are you doing Rabbi?

Rabbi Menasha Lewartow:
Good Herr Direktor.

Oskar Schindler:
The sun is going down.

Rabbi Menasha Lewartow:
Yes it is.

Oskar Schindler:
What day is it? Friday? It is Friday, isn't it?

Rabbi Menasha Lewartow:
Is it?

Oskar Schindler:
What's the matter with you? You should be preparing for the Sabbath, shouldn't you. I've got some wine in my office. Come.

Itzhak Stern:
But Moses is also a skilled metal worker, he can make pots, he can make tanks, he can make whatever Mr Schindler asks.

Chaim Nowak:
Not essential? I think you misunderstand the meaning of the word. I teach history and literature, since when it's not essential?

Amon Goeth:
Heil Hitler.

Schindler:
There's a company you did the books for on Lipowa Street, made what – pots and pans?

Stern:
By law, I have to tell you, sir, I'm a Jew.

Schindler:
Well, I'm a German, so there we are. A good company, you think?

Stern:
Modestly successful.

Schindler:
I know nothing about enamelware, do you?

Stern:
I was just the accountant.

Schindler:
Simple engineering, though, wouldn't you think? Change the machines around, whatever you do, you could make other things, couldn't you? Field kits, mess kits, army contracts. Once the war ends, forget it, but for now it's great. You could make a fortune, don't you think?

Stern:
I think most people right now have other priorities.

Schindler:
Like what?

Stern:
I'm sure you'll do just fine once you get the contracts. In fact, the worse things get, the better you will do.

Schindler:
Oh, I can get the signatures I need – that's the easy part. Finding the money to buy the company, that's hard.

Stern:
You don't have any money?

Schindler:
Not that kind of money. You know anybody? Jews, yeah. Investors. You must have contacts in the Jewish business community working here.

Stern:
What "community"? Jews can no longer own businesses. That's why this one's in receivership.

Schindler:
Ah, but they wouldn't own it. I'd own it. I'd pay them back in product. Pots and pans.

Stern:
Pots and pans.

Schindler:
Something they can use. Something they can feel in their hands. They can trade it on the black market, do whatever they want. Everybody's happy. If you want, you could run the company for me.

Stern:
Let me understand. They'd put up all the money. I'd do all the work. But what, if you don't mind my asking, would you do?

Schindler:
I'd make sure it's known the company's in business. I'd see that it had a certain panache. That's what I'm good at, not the work, not the work – the presentation.

Stern:
I'm not sure I know anybody who'd be interested in this.

Schindler:
Well, they should be, Itzhak Stern. Tell them they should be.

Pfefferberg:
Do you have any idea how much a shirt like this costs?

Schindler:
Nice things cost money.

Pfefferberg:
How many?

Schindler:
I'm going to need some other things too as things come up …

Pfefferberg:
This won't be a problem.

Schindler:
… from time to time.

Schindler:
For each thousand you invest, I will repay you with two hundred kilos of enamelware a month, to begin in July and to continue for one year – after which time we're even. That's it. It's very simple.

Investor:
Not good enough …

Schindler:
Not good enough? Look where you're living. Look where you've been put. "Not good enough." A couple of months ago, you'd be right. Not anymore.

Investor:
Money's still money.

Schindler:
No, it is not. That's why we're here. Trade goods, that's the only currency that'll be worth anything in the ghetto. Things have changed, my friend. Did I call this meeting? You told Mr. Stern you wanted to speak to me. I'm here. I've made you a fair offer.

Investor:
Fair would be a percentage of the company.

Schindler:
[laughs] Forget the whole thing. Get out.

Investor:
How do we know that you will do what you say?

Schindler:
Because I said I would. Do you want a contract? To be upheld by what court? I said what I'll do, that's our contract.

Stern:
The standard SS rate for Jewish skilled labor is seven marks a day, five for unskilled and women. This is what you pay the Reich Economic Office, the Jews themselves receive nothing. Poles you pay wages. Generally, they get a little more. Are you listening? … The Jewish worker's salary – you pay it directly to the SS, not to the worker. He gets nothing.

Schindler:
But it's less. It's less than what I would pay a Pole … that's the point I'm trying to make. Poles cost more. Why should I hire Poles?

Schindler:
My father was fond of saying you need three things in life. A good doctor, a forgiving priest, and a clever accountant. The first two, I've never had much use for them. But the third …

[Schindler raises his glass to recognize Stern, but the accountant doesn't respond]

Schindler:
Just pretend, for Christ's sake.

[Stern mechanically raises his glass slightly]

Stern:
Is that all?

Schindler:
I'm trying to thank you. I'm saying I couldn't have done this without you. The usual thing would be to acknowledge my gratitude. It would also, by the way, be the courteous thing.

Stern:
You're welcome.

Schindler:
Three hundred and fifty workers on the factory floor with one purpose … to make money – for me! … They won't soon forget the name Schindler, either. I can tell you that. Oskar Schindler, they'll say. Everybody remembers him. He did something extraordinary. He did something no one else did. He came here with nothing, a suitcase, and built a bankrupt company into a major manufactory. And left with a steamer trunk, two steamer trunks, full of money. All the riches of the world. … There's no way I could have known this before, but there was always something missing. In every business I tried, I can see now it wasn't me that had failed. Something was missing. Even if I'd known what it was, there's nothing I could have done about it, because you can't create this thing. And it makes all the difference in the world between success and failure.

Emilie:
Luck.

Schindler:
War.

Reiter:
Herr Kommandant! The entire foundation has to be torn down and repoured. If not, there will be at least a subsidence at the southern end of the barracks. Subsidence, and then collapse.

Goeth:
And you are an engineer?

Reiter:
Yes. My name is Diana Reiter. I'm a graduate of Civil Engineering from the University of Milan.

Goeth:
Ah, an educated Jew … like Karl Marx himself. Unterscharführer!

Hujar:
Jawohl?

Goeth:
Shoot her.

Reiter:
Herr Kommandant! I'm only trying to do my job!

Goeth:
Ja, I'm doing mine.

Hujar:
Sir, she's foreman of construction.

Goeth:
We're not going to have arguments with these people.

[Hujar starts to drag Reiter away; Goeth stops him]

Goeth:
No. Shoot her here, on my authority.

Reiter:
It will take more than that …

Goeth:
I'm sure you're right.

[Reiter is shot]

Goeth:
Take it down, repour it, rebuild it, like she said.

Pfefferberg:
I respectfully report I've been given orders to clear the bundles from the road so there will be no obstructions to the thoroughfare.

Goeth:
[laughing] Finish and join the lines, little Polish clicking soldier.

Adam Levy:
[to the SS troops] I've searched the building. There's no one here. … [to Mrs. Dresner] Come with me. I will put you in the good line.

Mrs. Dresner:
Do you know the saying, "An hour of life is still life"? You are not a boy anymore. I'll say a blessing for you.

Goeth:
What I don't understand is that you've been working since I think what, about six this morning, yet such a small pile of hinges.

[Lewartow is led out to be shot, but Goeth's gun won't fire]

Lewartow:
Herr Kommandant, I beg to report that my heap of hinges was so unsatisfactory because the machines were being re-calibrated this morning. I was put onto shoveling coal.

[Goeth slams the gun into Lewartow's head]

Schindler:
So, what can I do for you?

Krause:
They say that no one dies here. They say your factory is a haven. They say you are good.

Schindler:
Who says that?

Krause:
Everyone. My name is Regina Perlman, not Elsa Krause. I've been living in Krakow on false papers since the ghetto massacre. My parents are in P?aszów. Their names are Chana and Jakob Perlman. They are older people. They're killing older people now in P?aszów. They bury them up in the forest. Look, I don't have any money. I – I borrowed these clothes, I'm begging you – please, please bring them here.

Schindler:
I don't do that. You've been misled. I ask one thing: whether or not a worker has certain skills. That's what I ask and that's what I care about … such activities are illegal. You will not entrap me, Miss Krause. [Krause starts to cry] Cry and I'll have you arrested, I swear to God.

Schindler:
People die, it's a fact of life. He wants to kill everybody? Great, what am I supposed to do about it?! Bring everybody over? Is that what you think? "Send them over to Schindler, send them all. His place is a 'haven', didn't you know? It's not a factory, it's not an enterprise of any kind, it's a haven for rabbis and orphans and people with no skills whatsoever." You think I don't know what you're doing? You're so quiet all the time. I know, I know.

Stern:
Are you losing money?

Schindler:
No, I'm not losing money. That's not the point.

Stern:
What other point is –

Schindler:
It's dangerous! It's dangerous to me. You have to understand, Goeth is under enormous pressure. You have to think of it in his situation. He's got this whole place to run, he's responsible for everything that goes on here, all these people; he's got a lot of things to worry about. And he's got the war. Which brings out the worst in people. Never the good, always the bad. Always the bad. But in normal circumstances, he wouldn't be like this. He'd be all right. There'd just be the good aspects of him, which... he's a wonderful crook. A man who loves good food, good wine, the ladies, making money-

Stern:
killing.

Schindler:
He can't enjoy it.

Stern:
Boyevski told me the other day. (Montage of Goeth murdering prisoners as Stern describes it) Somebody escaped from a work detail outside the wire. Goeth lined up everybody from the missing man's barracks. He shot the man to the left of Byevski, the man to the right. He walked down the line, shooting every other man with a pistol. (pause) Twenty-five.

Schindler:
(defensively) What do you want me to do about it?!

Stern:
Nothing, nothing. We're just talking.

Schindler:
[pause, he pulls out a slip of paper] Perlman. Husband and wife.

Schindler:
A wonderful party, Amon. Thank you. [Goeth, who is very drunk, leans back, then slips and falls to the floor] Why do you drink that motor oil? Hmmm? I send you good stuff, all the time. Your liver's going to explode, like a hand grenade.

Goeth:
[clumsily sits down] You know, I look at you. I watch you. You're not a drunk. That's, that's real control. Control is power. That's power.

Schindler:
Is that why they fear us?

Goeth:
We have the f***ing power to kill, that's why they fear us.

Schindler:
They fear us because we have the power to kill arbitrarily. A man commits a crime, he should know better. We have him killed and we feel pretty good about it. Or we kill him ourselves and we feel even better. That's not power, though, that's justice. That's different than power. Power is when we have every justification to kill... and we don't.

Goeth:
You think that's power.

Schindler:
That's what the emperors had. A man stole something, he's brought in before the emperor, he throws himself down on the ground, he begs for mercy, he knows he's going to die. And the emperor pardons him. This worthless man, he lets him go.

Goeth:
I think you are drunk.

Schindler:
That's power, Amon. That is power. [leans back, gestures toward Goeth as a merciful emperor] Amon the Good.

Goeth:
[he smiles and laughs] I pardon you.

Schindler:
What do you say we get your fire hoses out here and hose down the cars? Indulge me.

Goeth:
This is really cruel, Oskar, you're giving them hope. You shouldn't do that. That's cruel!

Schindler:
I'm going home. I've done what I came here for. I've got more money than any man can spend in a lifetime. … Someday this is all going to end, you know. I was going to say we'll have a drink then.

Stern:
I think I'd better have it now.

Goeth:
You want these people?

Schindler:
These people, my people, I want my people.

Goeth:
Who are you, Moses? Come on, what is this? Where's the money in this, where's the scam?

Schindler:
It's good business.

Goeth:
Yeah, it's "good business" in your opinion. Look, you've got to move them, the equipment, everything to Czechoslovakia, pay for all that and build another camp. It doesn't make any sense … you're not telling me something.

Schindler:
It's good for me. I know them, I'm familiar with them, I don't have to train them. It's good for you. I'll compensate you … it's good for the Army. You know what I'm going to make? … Artillery shells … tank shells. They need that, everybody's happy.

Goeth:
Everyone's happy except me. You're probably scamming me somehow. If I'm making a hundred, you've got to be making three. And if you admit to making three, then it's four, actually. But how?

Schindler:
I just told you.

Goeth:
Yeah, you did, but you didn't. Yeah, all right, don't tell me, I'll go along with it. It's just irritating I can't work it out.

Schindler:
Look, all you have to do is tell me what it's worth to you. What's a person worth to you?

Goeth:
No, no, no, no. What's one worth to you?

Schindler:
That's it. You can finish that page.

Stern:
What did Goeth say about this? You just told him how many people you needed, and – you're not buying them. You're buying them? You're paying him for each of these names?

Schindler:
If you were still working for me, I'd expect you to talk me out of it. It's costing me a fortune. Finish the page and leave one space at the bottom.

Stern:
The list is an absolute good. The list is life. All around its margins lies the gulf.

Goeth:
Oskar, there's a clerical error here at the bottom of the last page.

Schindler:
No, there's one more name I want to put there. I'll never find a maid as well trained as her at Brinnlitz. They are all country girls.

Goeth:
[referring to Helen] No. No.

Schindler:
One hand of 21. If you win, I pay you 7400 Reichmarks. Hit a natural and I make it 14800. If I win, the girl goes on my list.

Goeth:
I can't wager Helen in a card game.

Schindler:
Why not?

Goeth:
Wouldn't be right.

Schindler:
She's going to Auschwitz on Number Two anyway. What difference does it make?

Goeth:
She's not going to Auschwitz. I'd never do that to her. No, I want her to come back to Vienna with me. I want her to come to work for me there. I want to grow old with her.

Schindler:
Are you mad? Amon, you can't take her to Vienna with you.

Goeth:
No, of course I can't. That's what I'd like to do. What I can do, if I'm any sort of a man, is the next most merciful thing. I should take her into the woods and shoot her painlessly in the back of the head. What was it you said for a natural 21? Was it 14800?

Mrs. Dresner:
Sir, a mistake has been made. We're not supposed to be here. We work for Oskar Schindler. We're Schindler Jews.

Dr. Mengele:
Who is Oskar Schindler?

Auschwitz Guard:
He had a factory in Krakow. Enamelware.

Dr. Mengele:
A potmaker.

Hoss:
I have a shipment coming in tomorrow. I'll cut you three hundred units from it. New ones. These are fresh. The train comes, we turn it around. It's yours.

Schindler:
Yes, I understand. I want these.

Hoss:
You shouldn't get stuck on names. That's right. It creates a lot of paperwork.

.... "its in Hebrew" ...."The one who saves one life saves the world entire"

Oskar Schindler:
[To Pfefferberg] Boxed teas are good, coffee, pâté, um, kie?basa sausage, cheeses, Beluga caviar. And of course, who could live without German cigarettes, as many as you can find. And some more fresh fruit – the real rarities: oranges, lemons, pineapples. I need several boxes of Cuban cigars, the best. And dark unsweetened chocolate, not in the shape of lady fingers, the chunk chocolate, big as my hand. You sample it at wine tastings. We're going to need lots of Cognac, the best – Hennessy. Dom Pérignon champagne. Get L'Espadon sardines. And, oh, try to find nylon stockings.

Oskar Schindler:
It is my distinct pleasure to announce the fully operational status of Deutsche Emailwaren Fabrik – manufacturers of superior enamelware crockery, expressly designed and crafted for military use, utilizing only the most modern equipment. DEF's staff of highly skilled and experienced artisans and journeymen deliver a product of unparalleled quality, enabling me to proffer with absolute confidence and pride, a full line of field and kitchen ware unsurpassable in all respects by my competitors. See attached list and available colors. Anticipating the enclosed bids will meet with your approval, and looking forward to a long and mutually prosperous association, I extend to you, in advance, my sincerest gratitude and very best regards. Oskar Schindler.

Oskar Schindler:
[To Gestapo men, as they are arresting him] I'm not saying you'll regret it, but you might. You should be aware of that.

Oskar Schindler:
I violated the Race and Resettlement Act. Though I doubt anyone can point out the actual provision to me. I kissed a Jewish girl.

Oskar Schindler:
The train with the women has already left P?aszów and will be arriving here very shortly. I know you've had a long journey, but it's only a short walk further to the factory where hot soup and bread is waiting for you. Welcome to Brinnlitz.

Oskar Schindler:
[To Brinnlitz guards] Under Department W provisions, it is unlawful to kill a worker without just cause. Under the Businesses Compensation Fund, I am entitled to file damage claims for such deaths. If you shoot without thinking, you go to prison, I get paid. That's how it works. So, there will be no summary executions here. There will be no interference of any kind with production. In hopes of ensuring that, guards will no longer be allowed on the factory floor without my authorization. [To the Commanding Officer, Josef Liepold] For your cooperation, you have my gratitude.

Oskar Schindler:
[To his wife, Emilie] No doorman or Maître D' will ever mistake you again. I promise.

Amon Goeth:
[To Stern] Goldberg and Chilowicz make sure I see my cut from the factory owners in this camp, leaving you to take care of my main account – the Schindler account. He wants his independence. I gave it to him. But independence costs money. This you understand? [Stern nods] Look at me. Don't forget who you are working for now.

Itzhak Stern:
Herr Direktor, don't let the things fall apart. I worked too hard.

Marcel Goldberg:
It's illegal to buy or sell anything on the street. We don't do that. We're here to pray.

Marcel Goldberg:
I'm a policeman now, could you believe it? That's what's hard to believe … it's a good racket, Poldek. It's the only racket here. Look, maybe I could put in a good word for you with my superiors … come on, they're not as bad as everyone says. Well, they're worse than everyone says, but it's a lot of money, a lot of money.

SS officer:
This storm is different. This is not the Romans. This storm is the SS.

Jewish Woman:
[to the Judenrat] They come into our house and tell us we don't live there anymore. It now belongs to a certain SS officer … aren't you supposed to be able to help?

Mr. Lowenstein:
The SS beat me up. They would have killed me, but I'm essential to the war effort, thanks to you. … I work hard for you. … I'll continue to work hard for you. … God bless you, sir. … You're a good man. … [to Stern] He saved my life. … God bless him. … [to Schindler] God bless you.

Clerk:
[to Schindler, about Stern] I'm sorry. You can't have him. He's on the list. If he were an essential worker, he would not be on the list … it makes no difference to us, you understand. This one, that one. It's the inconvenience to the list. It's the paperwork.

SS Officer:
[to Schindler, about relocating to P?aszów] Since your labor is housed onsite, it's available to you at all times. You can work them all night if you want. Your factory policies, whatever they've been in the past, they'll continue to be, they'll be respected.

Winston Churchill (on radio):
Yesterday morning, at 2:41 AM, at General Eisenhower's headquarters, General Jodl signed the act of unconditional surrender of all German land, sea, and air forces in Europe to the Allied Expeditionary Force and simultaneously to the Soviet High Command. The German war is therefore at an end. But let us not forget for a moment …

Rabbi Lewartow:
[to Schindler] We've written a letter trying to explain things in case you are captured. Every worker has signed it.

End titles:
Amon Goeth was arrested while a patient in a sanatorium at Bad Tolz. He was hanged in Krakow for crimes against humanity. … Oskar Schindler failed at his marriage and several businesses after the war. … in 1958, he was declared a righteous person by the council of the Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, and invited to plant a tree in the Avenue of the Righteous. It grows there still. … The Schindler Jews today. … There are fewer than four thousand Jews left alive in Poland today. There are more than six thousand descendants of the Schindler Jews. … In memory of the more than six million Jews murdered.