>THE FILM
• Keneally did not want Spielberg to direct the film adaptation
>Spielberg sacked Keneally as script-writer

• The titular character, Oscar Schindler (Liam Neeson) was a German industrialist who, by all accounts, was a man of rather detestable character
>the very opposite of sympathetic saviour depicted by Spielberg and, indeed, the characterisation that a tree was planted planted to commemorate, in Israel's "Alley of Righteous Gentiles (Among Nations)"

• According to his wife, Emilie Schindler, her husband was no angel, and her opinion on the film was less than endearing: "It (the film) is not good; it is fiction. The best thing you can do with it is wipe your bottom [...] The film is not right -- it's not the true story." (Emilie Schindler)
>in interviews, she was never observed referring to her husband by his given name; when a mic was put in front of the wheelchair-bound woman at the "Schindler Oscars" (1994; seven awards), Spielberg camera bombed and hastily interjected with a discursive spiel about how wonderful a woman she was

• A camp inmate of the Kraków-Płaszów camp, who smuggled out film footage from inside the camp, offered this invaluable insight to Spielberg, and was ignored by the director
>after all, why would a work of fiction need documented reference material?

• Contemporaneous orders by Himmler to minimise camp inmate deaths -- so that they'd could be used as labourers in the war effort -- is not referred to in the film

• The Germans executed their own camp guards, on charges of cruelty, corruption, and murder -- as the SS did to the commandant of Buchenwald, and Göth himself was slated for, until he managed to escape in the chaos of the German withdrawal
>"Those facts subvert the entire premise of the movie." (Alan Critchley, historian)

• Israeli historian, Tom Segev dubbed the film, "Holocaust Park: Spielberg trying to trick his audience into believing that the film is a documentary"