“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 mistakenly referred to Auschwitz instead of Buchenwald in telling of his personal experience of a soldier in his family who served heroically,” Burton says.
“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 mistakenly referred to Auschwitz instead of Buchenwald in telling of his personal experience of a soldier in his family who served heroically,” Burton says.
Mistakenly referred to Auschwitz and Treblinka in 2002.
In 2002 it was Auschwitz and Treblinka and it was his grandfather ‘hearing’ about it from fellow soldiers - I think he’s not out of the woods yet unless it is known that his great-uncle really was in on the liberation of Buchenwald and it’s simply his grand-nephew who can’t tell the tale accurately.