German Jewish leaders accompanied director Steven Spielberg on a visit to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Spielberg later told reporters that his first visit to a camp on German soil had left him deeply moved. Spielberg, who had visited numerous former concentration camps in Poland while filming “Schindler’s List,” is in Germany to receive a medal of honor for his efforts to generate a broader understanding of the Holocaust. Millions of Germans, including large numbers of schoolchildren, saw the 1993 film.
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