Anna Mucha – Danka Dresner — Schindler's List

"[To Helen] I came to tell you that you really are a wonderful cook and a well-trained servant. I mean it. If you need a reference after the war, Id be happy to give you one. Its kind of lonely down here, it seems, with everyone upstairs having such a good time. Does it? You can answer. "What was the right answer?" Thats – thats what youre thinking. "What does he want to hear?" The truth, Helen, is always the right answer. Yes, youre right. Sometimes were both lonely. Yes, I mean, I would like, so much, to reach out and touch you in your loneliness. What would that be like, I wonder? I mean, what would be wrong with that? I realize that youre not a person in the strictest sense of the word. Maybe youre right about that too. You know, maybe whats wrong isnt – its not us – its this. I mean, when they compare you to vermin and to rodents and to lice, I just, uh … you make a good point, a very good point. [He strokes her hair] Is this the face of a rat? Are these the eyes of a rat? "Hath not a Jew eyes?" I feel for you, Helen. [He decides not to kiss her] No, I dont think so. Youre a Jewish bitch. You nearly talked me into it, didnt you? [He beats her]"

"[To Brinnlitz guards] Under Department W provisions, it is unlawful to kill a worker without just cause. Under the Businesses Compensation Fund, I am entitled to file damage claims for such deaths. If you shoot without thinking, you go to prison, I get paid. Thats how it works. So, there will be no summary executions here. There will be no interference of any kind with production. In hopes of ensuring that, guards will no longer be allowed on the factory floor without my authorization. [To the Commanding Officer, Josef Liepold] For your cooperation, you have my gratitude."

"The unconditional surrender of Germany has just been announced. At midnight tonight, the war is over. Tomorrow youll begin the process of looking for survivors of your families. In most cases … you wont find them. After six long years of murder, victims are being mourned throughout the world. Weve survived. Many of you have come up to me and thanked me. Thank yourselves. Thank your fearless Stern, and others among you who worried about you and faced death at every moment. I am a member of the Nazi Party. Im a munitions manufacturer. Im a profiteer of slave labor. I am … a criminal. At midnight, youll be free and Ill be hunted. I shall remain with you until five minutes after midnight, after which time – and I hope youll forgive me – I have to flee. [To the factorys SS guards] I know you have received orders from our commandant, which he has received from his superiors, to dispose of the population of this camp. Now would be the time to do it. Here they are; theyre all here. This is your opportunity. … Or, you could leave, and return to your families as men instead of murderers. [The guards gradually exit; he addresses the workers again] In memory of the countless victims among your people, I ask us to observe three minutes of silence."

"[Defending Schindler] He likes women. He likes good-looking women. He sees a beautiful woman – he doesnt think. He has so many women. They love him, yeah, they love him. I mean, hes married, yeah, but … all right, she was Jewish, he shouldnt have done it, but you didnt see this girl. I saw this girl. This girl was, wuff, very good-looking. They cast a spell on you, you know, the Jews. When you work closely with them like I do, you see this. They have this power, its like a virus. Some of my men are infected with this virus. They should be pitied, not punished. They should receive treatment, because this is as real as typhus. I see this all the time. Its a matter of money, hm?"

"Im a policeman now, could you believe it? Thats whats hard to believe … its a good racket, Poldek. Its the only racket here. Look, maybe I could put in a good word for you with my superiors … come on, theyre not as bad as everyone says. Well, theyre worse than everyone says, but its a lot of money, a lot of money."

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