A Berlin movie theater stepped in to save a school trip to death camp memorials outside Germany. Jurgen Paster, spokesman for the Kinocenter Spandau, said he was moved to act after he learned that the Berlin Senate did not want to subsidize 15 students from the Spandau school for the educational trip to Majdanek and Sobibor in Poland.
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