Obviously, there were a lot of prejudice in this movie. There were institutionalized discrimination and envious discrimination. A lot of interactions between German and Jewish were performed in this movie. Most of the interaction was between soldiers (except for Schindler) and Jewishs.
The soldier showed German's typical negative emotions which were created and triggered by Hilter. These emotions include envy, resentment hostility and fear. Hitler chose Jewish to be their German's enemy in order to unite the German and hold the power. There were some behaviors would be shown from those individuals with envious prejudice.
Individuals with envious prejudice would avoid, exclude, segregate and exterminate the people they have a prejudice with. For examples, Nazy extensively segregate Jewish from German's community. In this film, the governors repeatedly labeled all the Jewish and Poles. They treated them as some flesh that could provide labor. They created an atmosphere that they pretended them as non-human. For example, a soldier told a girl he liked that he thought the girl was seducing him. He would not develop a romantic relationship with her because the whole German society should treat Jewish as rat or other species but not human.
The Jewishs were controlled by the feelings of fear. They were not able to fight back, but some of them were still trying. Schindler could eliminate his prejudice towards the Jewish because he truly understands the situation. He was in a situation that he knew he could do something for his own good at first. However, gradually he started to sacrifice and put more efforts for his Jewish workers after having a clear understanding the whole situation and realized that he could do something. The situation he was in actually was a two-side situation. He had to choose which side he stands for. However, Jewish's side was more able to fulfill his demands based on social identity theory.
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