First published at 06:34 UTC on November 4th, 2017.
The public's perception of the Holocaust has been heavily influenced by the film "Schindler's List" (1993) by Steven Spielberg. Following its release, Jewish groups around the western world campaigned to have the film made mandat…
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The public's perception of the Holocaust has been heavily influenced by the film "Schindler's List" (1993) by Steven Spielberg. Following its release, Jewish groups around the western world campaigned to have the film made mandatory viewing in public schools. This met with resistance from parents who did not want their children exposed to the full frontal nudity and violence that are ubiquitous in the film, but despite this, Jewish activist groups were largely successful.
Most people who watched Schindler's List are unaware of the fact that the film is a work of fiction. The film is based on a historical fiction novel named "Schindler's Ark" (ISBN: 0-340-27838-2) which was released in Australia in 1982 and won the "Los Angeles Times" Book Prize for Fiction in 1983. The original book is available for purchase here: https://www.amazon.com/SCHINDLERS-ARK-Thomas-Keneally/dp/0340278382/
The author of the novel, Mr. Thomas Keneally, make it clear to his readers that the plot of his novel was the product of his imagination and not based on historical research. He did so by explicitly using the word "fiction" on the title page of his book. In fact, the book explicitly states that "This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously" and that "Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental".
Steven Spielberg, on the other hand, was not so straightforward. In his adaptation he deliberately mislead cinema-goers into thinking that the story he depicted was true. He even went so far as to make his film in black and white, to give it the appearance of an old newsreel and an aura of authenticity.
In this video, the late Mr. Ernst Zundel talks to Paster Peter John Peters about the film and the role it was playing, at that time, in brainwashing a new generation of children into believing in the Holocaust Lie. They also discuss the symbols that were used to brainwash their own generation to the same end.
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