"I had an uncle who was one of the, um, who was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps. And the story in our family is that when he came home he just went up in the attic and he didn't leave the house for six months."
Amazing if true as Auschwitz was liberated by the Soviet Red Army in January 1945, whilst the US Army had yet to cross the Rhine.
The Obama camp have tried to limit the damage by saying that their man meant to say Ohrdruf, which was part of the Buchenwald camp system in Lower Saxony. Now this camp was liberated by the US Army on April 4th 1945.
Who knows the truth? Maybe Barack Obama's uncle's story has been changed over the years by the retelling of it. Maybe the only death camp that Barack Obama could think of as he told the story was Aushwitz. Maybe lots of things; but as Barack Obama tries to persuade Jewish Democrats that he is not an enemy of Israel and that he does not agree with many of his supporters who hate Israel and some of whom just hate Jews, this will not help.
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