[Enchante]

"he heard the stories of fellow troops who first entered Auschwitz and Treblinka"

Good find - and this is from 2002, and he says it's his grandfather hearing accounts from fellow soldiers - who of course did not first enter Auschwitz and Treblinka in particular since they were in the Soviet zone of conquest in Poland (Treblinka was actually shut down near the end of 1943 because they had murdered just about all of the Polish Jews left and then there was a prisoner revolt and the Nazis just wiped out anyone that was left - so there was not too much for the Soviets to "liberate" at Treblinka by 1945).

I think that what's most likely happening is that Obama is plugging in any concentration camp name(s) he can think of to whatever he may heard from his grandfather or anyone in school. He's just not knowledgeable enough to realize that there were all these different concentration camps in different locations and that the US Army did not liberate all of them (the Brits liberated Bergen-Belsen for instance). Obama's brain thinks "Nazi concentration camp" and just plugs in whatever name he can come up with to tell the story.

[CharlesWayneCT]

And remember, his reason for bringing up concentration camps is NOT to talk about how important it is to stand up to tyranny and terrorists, to liberate people from death camps like we did in Iraq, to actually fight for right.

No, his reason is to talk about how hard it was for his uncle to have to see the camps, and how government needed to spend billions of dollars because of it.

It was all about him, his family, THEIR suffering, and how he can use that to talk people into spending more money on government programs.

Using concentration camps as political pawns should be strictly off-limits, but not to Barack.