The movie Schindler's List focuses...
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The movie Schindler's List focuses on the heroism and self-sacrifice of Oskar Schindler, a Catholic from Krakow, Poland.
In one scene, we see Jews being herded like cattle onto freight trains, hungry, hot and thirsty. The train is taking them to the death camps. German soldiers are lolling about the station docks and enjoying the suffering they see, when tall, clean, rested and pampered Schindler arrives in a spotless white suit. The colonel offers him a drink and he glad-hands among the soldiers for a minute. He has a bright idea! "Let's hose down the cars!" He convinces the colonel to give him a soldier to man the hose, and they begin spraying the cars.
In this way the captives could drink and be cooled. And Schindler did not have to give away too much in the appearance of compassion. In fact, he and the soldier seemed to be having fun with the fire hose, even to getting the colonel to order another length of hose, so they could reach the last car.
While Schindler was playing with the hose, and the prisoners were squealing and reaching for the water, the colonel said, "Oh Oskar, you are too cruel! You're giving them hope!"
Of course there were people like that colonel. There still are. For the truth is, not everyone cares if they are right with God. Their life is right with them, and that's okay. What they don't know is that all of life, World War II or 2002, is a life or death struggle. Maybe not literally, as in war, but on the inside, all the time.
In one scene, we see Jews being herded like cattle onto freight trains, hungry, hot and thirsty. The train is taking them to the death camps. German soldiers are lolling about the station docks and enjoying the suffering they see, when tall, clean, rested and pampered Schindler arrives in a spotless white suit. The colonel offers him a drink and he glad-hands among the soldiers for a minute. He has a bright idea! "Let's hose down the cars!" He convinces the colonel to give him a soldier to man the hose, and they begin spraying the cars.
In this way the captives could drink and be cooled. And Schindler did not have to give away too much in the appearance of compassion. In fact, he and the soldier seemed to be having fun with the fire hose, even to getting the colonel to order another length of hose, so they could reach the last car.
While Schindler was playing with the hose, and the prisoners were squealing and reaching for the water, the colonel said, "Oh Oskar, you are too cruel! You're giving them hope!"
Of course there were people like that colonel. There still are. For the truth is, not everyone cares if they are right with God. Their life is right with them, and that's okay. What they don't know is that all of life, World War II or 2002, is a life or death struggle. Maybe not literally, as in war, but on the inside, all the time.
