Chapter 486
Amon's repressed feelings for Helen finally broke out completely. On the one hand, he despised the Jews, but on the other hand, he couldn't control Helen's attraction to him, which made Amon take all the responsibility on Helen and beat him severely. Helen, vented her inner entanglements and contradictions in this way. The kind of ferocity and paranoia, madness and ruthlessness, punched Helen with punch and punch, and at the same time punched in the hearts of every audience at the scene, a cold sweat broke out behind them. Souls are trembling.
At the same time, a happy Jewish wedding was held in the barracks, and Schindler was also celebrating his birthday in the factory. After Schindler blows out the candles on the cake, he kisses every woman around him. The Jewish girl in the factory brought a Jewish girl and also held a cake to wish Schindler a happy birthday on behalf of all the workers. Schindler kissed them too, not wanting this to be the beginning of a disaster.
The concentration camps started a new round of cleaning, they concentrated the Jews in the name of group showers, but they were actually sent to the gas chambers and killed everyone. This made all the Jews panic. This time, another group of Jews came to Plaszow concentration camp from Hungary. In order to clear enough barracks to arrange these Jews, a new round of cleansing had to be started.
As Amon is undergoing a medical check-up - he has high blood pressure due to eating too much meat, doctors want him to control his weight. So Amon made up his mind temporarily and wiped out all the sick Jews. The officers asked all the Jews to take off their clothes for the examination. The women broke their fingers and squeezed blood and smeared it on their faces and lips to increase the color; while all the Jews on the playground were being physically examined, their dignity had already been established. doesn't exist anymore,
After the inspection, some Jews were left behind, but before they had time to celebrate, they saw that the children in the concentration camp were all driven into trucks and taken away together with those who failed the inspection. "Survivors" panicked, but even desperate shouting could not save the truck from disappearing at the end of the road.
The poor children were also forced to flee, looking for a place to escape the search in the concentration camp, and even willingly jumped into the cesspool in order to prolong their lives. In order to survive, the children also launched fierce and cruel competition, just to be able to survive, and the children's innocence has long been consumed in the cruelty of the concentration camp. This is the most terrifying part of the war.
Those Jews who were put on the truck were all loaded into the train containers. The Jews who stayed in the stuffy tanker were scorched by the scorching sun and were thirsty. Witnessing this scene, Schindler handed Amon sitting on the platform ice-cold soda and suggested calling a fire truck to spray the Jews with water bridles for fun. So, Amon ordered the soldiers to execute it, and the Jews greeted the fountain of life with their mouths. Looking at the poor Jews, Schindler involuntarily stepped forward and instructed the soldiers to spray more on the roof of the car. Amon, who was watching him, realized something, and the smile on his face suddenly converged.
The Gestapo arrested Schindler on charges of violating the Führer's racial code by inadvertently kissing the Jewish girl who delivered the cake on his birthday. For his own economic interests, Amon explained to the Gestapo head Julius, interceded for Schindler, and solved the problem with money. Schindler was released on bail after a warning.
By April 1944, more than 10,000 Jews had been killed in the Krakow and Plaszow ghettos. Amon was ordered by his superiors to dig out the long-buried corpses and incinerate them. The soot from the incinerated corpses poured down a torrential rain in the air, covering the entire sky, and the stench emitted completely polluted the air. , this overwhelming soot is the proof of life.
Schindler saw the redness again in the exhumed corpse. The little girl in red was lying on the cart like this lifeless, as if all hope in the whole world had been extinguished. .
Amon was then responsible for transporting the remaining Jews to Auschwitz. Schindler learned of the situation and asked Amon to give his accountant Stein special treatment. As for Schindler himself, he was disheartened. Seeing that the factory would be unsustainable, he planned to go back to his hometown, but Stein said he could continue to open the factory, but of course he had to hire new workers. However, Schindler did not agree to this proposal. He was grateful to Stein from the bottom of his heart, and now he decided to return to his hometown and his wife with the money that he could not squander in his life. "All this will come one day. The past." Witnessing what happened to the Jews, Schindler's inner shock and scars will never be repaired.
"I wanted to say, when are we going to have a drink." Schindler looked at Stein and said with emotion.
"I think it's better to drink now." Stern tried to squeeze out a smile, but a line of tears fell in his eyes, because he knew that leaving Plasov concentration camp this time may be a goodbye.
That night, Schindler tossed and turned awake.
The next day, Schindler came to Amon with a few suitcases full of money and said that he was going to buy his workers. Amon asked suspiciously: "It's not good for you, you have to ship them all. Go to the Czech Republic and rebuild the barracks. Why on earth? You must have ulterior motives, you have to tell me the truth!"
Schindler replied: "In this way, I don't need to train workers. It's good for me, it's good for you, and it's good for the army. I want to produce arms." "How much is a life worth to you?"
But Amon shook his head, "No no no, how much should a life be worth to you?"
In the factory office, Schindler was smoking one cigarette after another, dictating the list to Stein who was typing. He finally bought Amon and Julius with money, and he left all the children. There are also factory investors, teachers, doctors, technicians, and artists, who have saved one innocent life after another.
On this list, each name is a life, and it is also the life continuation of the Jewish race, which makes Schindler's list longer and longer. At this time, Schindler showed a strange "greed", he once Go to see Julius again and again and try to give as many places as possible.
Stern held the long list he played, his hands trembling, and the fire of life burned in front of his eyes.
On the last page of the list, there was a blank space reserved for Helen, Amon's Jewish maid. Amon refused to hand her over to Schindler, saying that he would never send her to a concentration camp, but would take her back to Vienna and live with her. Schindler reminded him that it was just wishful thinking. But Amon said it would be better to take Helen to the woods and shoot her in the head. But in the end, Amon retreated and compromised, and handed Helen over to Schindler at 14,800 marks to work in the labor camp.
Fourteen thousand eight hundred marks, the highest price for a life, and the price of a Nazi officer's love for a Jewish maid.
After the Jews on the list are registered at the square, they will be sent by train to Zwito-Brunlitz in the Czech Republic, where the munitions factory is located and Schindler's hometown. Schindler told the Jewish men who had arrived earlier that the women's train had left Plaszow and would soon arrive at the munitions factory. The women's train was moving, and the carriage was full of jubilation. However, the train went to Auschwitz because of a misregistration, and the women were ordered to strip naked, cut their hair for bathing and disinfection, and the frightening thing in the legend finally happened to them, and people were in a panic.
Distraught Schindler rushed to Auschwitz and asked the camp boss to get his workers back. Under the combination of hard and soft, the leader who accepted the bribe wanted to be replaced by another 300 people. However, Schindler disagreed, and at his insistence, the leader finally let go. After returning to his hometown, Schindler repeatedly told the German soldiers that they were not allowed to shoot and kill Jewish workers in the munitions factory.
Schindler found his wife in the church, and he assured her, "All the porters or the foreman will think you are the one and only Mrs. Schindler." Schindler's soul was finally complete, and he returned to his hometown to return to his wife around.
The factory began to operate, but the situation was not very good. Stein came to report to Schindler: the quality of the shells produced by the factory was all substandard, and he was afraid of being prosecuted by the military. But Schindler said calmly that he would explain to the Germans. He told Stein that the shells they produced were of poor quality, and he was very happy. Because deep down in Schindler's heart, he wanted the Germans to lose, and he didn't want to supply the army with more weapons, especially weapons made by Jewish hands.
For seven months, Schindler failed to produce a qualified product. At the same time, he spent millions of marks to supply his workers and to bribe German officials, while also using the money to buy some artillery shells from the arms market as a product for the military factory, to prevaricate the German army. In doing so, Schindler was bankrupt and on the verge of bankruptcy.
Germany finally surrendered unconditionally. Schindler stood in front of all the workers, "at midnight today, the war is officially over, and from tomorrow they can go to find their relatives. For most people, the result may be disappointing. After six years of massacres, the world mourns these victims, but we survived. Many of you have thanked me in person, but you should be thankful to yourself, and the brave Stern, and those who People who silently take care of each other while facing death threats."
Schindler calmly spread his hands, "I am a Nazi party member and an arms manufacturer, I also illegally enslaved prisoners to work for me, and I have now become a criminal. At midnight tonight you will be free, and I will be Wanted, I will stay here with you until 12:05 tonight, after that, please forgive me, I must start fleeing." Afterwards, Schindler looked at the German soldiers guarding the factory , persuaded them to lay down their weapons, "Go home with dignity, instead of being a murderer."
The soldiers bowed their heads and left quietly.
Afterwards, Schindler looked at the workers again, "In order to mourn those countless innocents who were killed, I hope everyone can observe three minutes of silence together."
After midnight, Schindler, who was about to leave with his wife, told Stein to give all the things in the factory to the workers. The workers melted their dentures, took out gold and cast them into a simple ring with a scripture inscribed in Hebrew, "Whoever saves one life saves the whole world." There is also an explanatory letter signed by all the workers by a Jew. Hand it over to Schindler, in case he gets caught, with everyone's signature on it, proving his innocence.
Looking at the ring in his hand and looking at Stern in front of him, Schindler was so excited that he burst into tears and couldn't help himself. At this time, he realized that he could save more lives, but he still didn't do enough.
Facing the incoherent Schindler, Stein said sincerely, "Because of you, 1,110 Jews were spared, and their descendants have also received his favor, and they will never forget it."
But Schindler said dazedly, "If my life wasn't so extravagant, I could save more people, if I made more money... I'm absurd and splurge..." Schindler looked at His car and his medal, he said with remorse, "This car can save ten more lives; this brooch, which is pure gold, can change at least two more lives, and he will be willing to use it. The exchange of two lives, at least one...he will give me at least one more person, one more person...one more life..."
Looking at the real lives around him, Schindler realized how many lives he had lost with his profligacy and enjoyment, which made Schindler instantly swallowed up by remorse, and he wept on the shoulders of his accountant. Kneel down. Seeing such a fragile Schindler, Mrs. Schindler stepped forward and hugged her husband, and the workers all gathered around and hugged their savior, protecting them with the simplest ray of warmth. with Schindler.
Schindler was gone, and people followed him for a long time, watching him until the end.
The war was over, the Soviet Union liberated the Czech Republic and Poland, and the Jews finally won their freedom and moved toward that faint hope. And the murderous Amon was hanged.
After the war, the world returned to color, and with the blue sky that gradually brightened in black and white in the movie, color entered the world again.
After all, Schindler was unable to save his marriage, and his business failed many times. He was penniless and could only continue to live on the relief given by the Jews he had rescued. In 1958, Schindler was awarded the Order of Justice by the Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem and was invited to plant a small tree on the road of justice.
On October 9, 1974, Schindler died in poverty. He was buried in the Zvetazir mountain in his hometown in a Catholic way. Those saved "Schindler Jews" came to Schindler's tombstone one after another. , to express their respect, each of them left a stone on the tombstone. This stone, which represents "Thanksgiving will never change", expresses the truest feelings of the Jewish hearts, and it is also the heart of the Jews in that cruel and bloody war. The trace of humanity left in it is the thinnest but never extinguished ray of sunshine in those dark years.
Today, there are less than 4,000 Jews living in Poland, and the descendants of Schindler's Jews have exceeded 6,000. Therefore, there are still many surviving Jews and their descendants every year to pay homage to his dead soul.
The movie ended, and the curtain came to an end in the subtitles "I would like to use this film to commemorate the more than six million Jews who were killed," but the shock of the heart was just beginning.