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"Douglas Baldwin (GD 1996)" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 6 Mar 1994 00:39:17 -0400
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For a student in a seminar, I am looking for references to respectable
sources detailing historical _inaccuracies_ in "Schindler's List"
(specifically the film, although refs to historical misrepresentation
in the novel would be useful to her also, I believe).
 
She is especially concerned with the shower scene (i.e., were any of the
gas chamber showers ever even piped for water? why would their clothes
have been indiscriminately tossed if they were not to be killed, &c.).
 
Further issues concern Spielberg's occasional use of German at
crucial moments during the film, the lack of any reference to the Warsaw
uprising, the failure to create developed empathy for any who are
subsequently killed, and other scholarly/critical questions raising
ideological readings of the film.

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