_Schindler's List_ opened here last night in English with German subtitles. A reporter attempting to interview people coming out of one theater was met with choked-up "no comments" or expressions of disbelief (careful: not "disbelief" as in "I don't believe it happened," but rather "I can't/don't want to believe it happened like that.") My German friend watching the news with me shakes her head. "Why do they act so surprised?" she wants to know. Indeed, this certainly would have been their first encounter with the holocaust. Is there something about the "Spielberg touch" that can make an experience of this history seem new to a German audience? PS: Today's newspaper carries a photo of Spielberg and his wife at Auschwitz. Mr. Jurassic Camp is sporting the ever-appropriate baseball cap (I can't see if it says "Schindler's List" on the bill). "No comment." Cary Nathenson Freie Universitaet Berlin Washington University in St. Louis [log in to unmask]