In Schindler's List who see the girl in the red coat Schindler or Goeth?

Answer 1

Schindler. Göth is looking, but he doesn't _see_.

"In his book "Schindler´s Ark" Thomas Keneally tells about Oscar Schindler, on horseback, as he views the liquidation of the Cracow ghetto from atop an adjacent hill. The child in red compells Schindler's attention, and his mistress Ingrid comments that the child must be female, because little girls get obsessed by color, especially a bright shade of red like that. In the beginning the SS guard corrects her drift and nudges her back into line. Schindler can not see why he does not bludgeon her with his rifle butt, since at the other end of Krakusa Street mercy has been cancelled."

" "At last Schindler slithered from his horse, tripped, and found himself on his knees hugging the trunk of a pine tree. The urge to throw up his excellent breakfast was, he sensed, to be suppressed, for he suspected it meant that all his cunning body was doing was making room to digest the horrors of Krakusa Street."

"Later in the day, after he had absorbed a ration of brandy, Oscar understood ... they permitted witnesses, such witnesses as the red toddler, because they believed all the witnesses would perish too ... " "

"Schindler had previously rationalized to himself that the reports of atrocities were just the isolated acts of individuals, but now realizes that if such atrocities are occuring in full view of this little girl, the Nazis must be acting with the full knowledge of their superiors, with the approval of the highest authority."

"Schindler identifies with the little girl in red, as she makes her way, aimless and alone, past the madness and chaos in the street."

"The Girl in Red" : http://www.oskarschindler.com/13.htm

"It is one image in particular that condenses all of the Nazi sadism into one small pictorial area, a metonymic displacement of the mass murder of millions of people to a tiny remnant, a red coat of a small girl, one of the few color images in the entire film that bounces through the streets of Krakow until we finally see her mangled body and the red coat being carried on a small wagon as Amon Göth and his crew orchestrate the burning of the last traces of the remains of the murdered prisoners. Oskar Schindler follows this image in a visual romance until he finally sees her body, at which point his conscience is miraculously brought to life, a moral reawakening that slowly but surely changes his capitalist fantasies into a singular dedication to save as many Jews as possible."

"Romancing the Holocaust, or Hollywood and Horror: Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List", Robert S. Leventhal, Department of German, University of Virginia : http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/holocaust/schinlist.html

Answer 2

not really sure, but i was under the impression that it was schindler.

Answer 3

normally all people see in colour the viewers meant to recognise the dead girl in her redcoat later on in a wheelbarrow to pull at you re heart strings .