Yes, Schindler’s List, the film, is quite accurate. I read the book. Spielberg felt it was his duty to portray the events of that period as realistically as possible.
While studying languages in Germany many years ago, I did have the chance to visit a few of the camp memorial sites. This forever changed my view of humanity.
My uncle’s parents were both murdered at Auschwitz. My uncle escaped to this country when he was 16. His parents couldn’t get out in time. He went back to fight for the American army in Europe a few years later. He was a decorated soldier. As you can imagine, this stuff is very real to me.
One memory about the camps that stands out to me is having read once that when the war was over...or almost over...a group of top generals toured one of the recently liberated camps.Ike,Bradley and Patton were among the group on the tour. I read that at one point Patton became physically ill at what he was witnessing. It had to be pretty damn ugly for it to effect Patton like that.