After Goeth attempts to shoot the rabbi only to have his pistol fail to fire he pulls a second semi-automatic pistol from his pocket to shoot the rabbi. After this pistol also fails to fire several times Goeth hits the rabbi and walks away dropping the pistol on the ground. The pistol that he drops is a revolver and not the semi-automatic he removed from his pocket.
The Doctor who poisons his patient in an act of mercy killing is first seen covered in blood scrambling to get the poison from a pharmacy. Moments later he is seen in a perfectly clean identical coat when he is distributing the poison. A bit later he is seen carrying a wounded woman who is subsequently shot by an SS man, the former bleeding out on the doctor.
When Schindler goes to kiss the Jewish girl, he puts his hands
on her shoulders. In the next shot, he pulls his hands away from her cheeks.
When the kid is painting the letters "DIREKTOR" for the first time, a serif font is used. In a subsequent shot the word is shown in a sans-serif, bolder, almost stencil-like font. The size of the word is also much larger than before.
In the ammunition factory, Schindler approaches the rabbi working at a grinding machine from behind and asks him a question. The rabbi does not hear it, due to machine noise, so Schindler calls him a little louder. The rabbi then switches the machine off and answers the original question, which he did not hear and Schindler did not repeat.
At the end of the film, it is written that Oskar Schindler was declared righteous in 1958. Schindler, however, was not declared righteous until 1993, the same year the film was released and 19 years after his death.
Among the decorations worn by Amon Goeth on his SS uniform are the Iron Cross 2nd Class, the Sudentenland Medal, and the Silesian Eagle. Goeth was never awarded any of these decorations; in the case of the Silesian Eagle, Goeth would have been 11 years old when the badge was presented.
Oskar Schindler was never awarded the Golden Nazi Party Badge, and thus couldn't have sold it to save more Jews. In any event, all but a few of the badges were made of gold-plated brass.
When the gassing story is told in the women's barracks, one woman is seen to run her hands through her hair. On her index finger is a ring. All the jewelry was confiscated.
Jews bandages with the star of David should sit on the left arm, not on the right arm.
When the train containing the women leaves Krakow-Plaszow and is mistakenly rerouted to Auschwitz (roughly 25 miles west of Krakow), the train is shown passing a mountain range. in reality, there are no mountains between Krakow and Auschwitz-Birkenau. In real life transports to Auschwitz and the other death camps didn't always go direct and were often times rerouted via less direct routes , so this transport may have passed mountains (the Tatra mountains are around 160km from Krakow). This could also add considerable travel time to the transports; journeys that should have taken hours could take days.
When they are separating the healthy from the sick, one of the men running naked is clearly not circumcised. However, many of the Jewish prisoners were not Torah-observant but, in fact, had been assimilated into Gentile society; thus, they may not have been circumcised.
When Schindler takes his meal, he uses his fork with the right hand and his knife with the left. Not being left-handed, this would be a very unusual thing for a German to do. In fact, Germans and many Europeans do cut their meat with their dominant hand and do not rotate utensils. Rather the meat is eaten straight from the knife, so the way Schindler eats in that scene is technically culturally correct.
When Schindler is getting dressed to go to the night club at the beginning of the film, he pours a clear liquid into his glass from a Hennessy VSOP Cognac bottle. Hennessy VSOP Cognac has a dark, amber color and wouldn't be clear for any reason.
Just after the little boy is held up to pull down another icicle from the roof of the train, the camera angle switches to the exterior and pulls back to show the train going by with no trace of snow or ice anywhere else on the train except right over that one doorway.
At the train station, when Schindler saves Stern from being sent away, an officer is seen flipping through pages of names, but all the pages are exactly the same.
After the scene in the factory where the workers are shown how to make soup pots, Stern leads a group of people to the front of the line to obtain their work permits, but he isn't wearing his armband with the Star of David.
When Goeth holds up the list to Schindler to say that there is a clerical error at the bottom of the last page, referring to the blank space being reserved for Helen Hirsch, the page shows that the blank is numbered 297. Since the list actually included between 1100 and 1200 people, the last number on the last page should be in that range.
The bottle of Hennessy cognac as seen in the movie is the new shape released in 1990s. The original bottle shape was taller and had different label.
In the 1940s, almost all European women did not shave any of their armpits, legs, or pubic areas, especially work or death camp women who were not allowed even the basics. All but one of the women in the film are trimmed and groomed.
When one train of the male Jews were taken to Czechoslovakia, we can see some electric columns for electric rail tracks. At that time and place, all locomotives were steam-engine.
A 1950 Mercedes-Benz 170 Va can be seen during the evacuation scenes.
When Rudolph Höss meets with Schindler, Höss states that I.G. Farben needs labor for "his chemical factory" as if the name were for a specific person. I.G. Farben was in fact the name of an industrial conglomerate and the not the name for one particular individual.
When the evicted family is shown moving into its new ghetto apartment, a woman who is already there is rocking a baby in her arms. There is crying, but the baby itself is calm.
When Schindler and Stern negotiate with the Jewish investors outside the ghetto, Steven Spielberg is reflected on the rear window (his jacket is blowing in the wind).
The first time Amon Goeth shoots a Jewish prisoner, the large dirt squib is clearly visible in the background before it detonates.
The scene inside the cellar between Oskar and the maid, when she faces the camera head on, there is no light coming from the right, yet as the scene progresses and the shot tightens, somebody turns on a light which becomes visible as they cut to her left and her head tilts forward.
When the train containing the women leaves Krakow-Plaszow and is mistakenly rerouted to Auschwitz (roughly 25 miles west of Krakow), the train is shown passing a mountain range. in reality, there are no mountains between Krakow and Auschwitz-Birkenau.
(German version only) When Schindler and Goeth argue about the disposition of Helen Hirsch, we hear Goeth pronouncing the name of Auschwitz incorrectly, he says "Aus-schwitz". This error can be noticed at times in German public as people indeed seem to confuse the name of Auschwitz (which is German for the Polish town name Oswiecim) with "Ausschwitz" (where "ausschwitzen" actually means "to exude").
Oskar Schindler tells a guard, that only a kid can polish a 45 mm shell from inside. However, German army did not use 45 mm caliber guns at all (not counting a small quantity of captured Soviet tanks, for which the Germans did not manufacture ammunition anyway).
When Goeth tries to execute the rabbi, he pulls a semi-automatic pistol from his pocket. When it doesn't fire, he manually recharges the weapon by pulling back the slide. The very first time he does so, a cartridge is ejected from the weapon, but each time he racks the slide after that, the weapon fails to eject a cartridge, meaning that the magazine was empty.
During the clearing of the Krakow ghetto, a SS soldier berates another soldier for shooting the boy he was dragging back to the assembly area. This soldier repeatedly mispronounces the verb "schiessen" (to shoot) with an "i" sound instead of the correct "e", making it sound like he is using the verb "scheissen" (to defecate).
After the little boy takes the saddle out of the car and after Schindler says thank you - he passes on some cigarettes to a Schutz-Staffel personnel at the camp and Schindler calls him "Rottenführer", but the rank/insignia of the SS man responds to a different rank called Sturmmann which is one rank lower than the Rottenführer rank.