How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Schindler's List.
Quote #4
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. They came with nothing. And 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.
Goeth is not just planning to kill the Jews. He's getting ready to wipe out all memory of them: to destroy Jewish culture and its history. What makes it so terrifying is that the Nazis might actually have done it had they won the war.
Quote #5
SS OFFICER: A big shot from the SS Budget and Construction Office came to lunch and he told us that to believe the Jewish skilled worker had a place in Reich economics was a treasonable idea.
Nazi hatred of Jews is so deep that they can't even view them as a resource to be exploited.
Quote #6
GOETH: Take it down, re-pour it, rebuild it, like she said.
Goeth says this after shooting the woman who gave him this exact advice. Why? Because he can't have Jews arguing with Nazis. Giving a Jew credit for a useful idea would have been against the party line. Jews were considered worthless sub-humans.