“At the very least it is fair to say he knows nothing about the history of the liberation of Europe in 1945.”
Or the history of his family. It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if his campaign folks find stuff like this and give it to Obama on the plane ride to the next speech. (”Oh wait - TOMMORROW is Memorial Day? Quick, find something in his family’s history about WAR”.)
Would account for the uncle vs. great uncle. Aushwitz (famous) vs. Buchenwald (not quite so famous), etc. Sort of like giving the answers on a pop-quiz.
As someone else said on a related thread, at this point we very well might wonder if in fact the Payne family home even had an attic.