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Published: 05/27/08

Obama Misrecollects Auschwitz Liberation

By  David Knowles - Politics Daily
Obama Misrecollects Auschwitz Liberation

Giving a speech in New Mexico on Memorial Day, Barack Obama said the following:Well, it turns out that the concentration camp in question wasn't Auschwitz, it was Buchenwald. And the man in question was a great uncle of Obama's, and not the sibling of one of his parents. Opponents of Obama's have pounced on the gaffe, and his campaign later released the following statement:"Senator Obama's family is proud of the service of his grandfather and uncles in World War II--especially the fact that his great uncle was a part of liberating one of the concentration camps at Buchenwald. Yesterday he ...

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