Gaffe? GAFFE?
It was his uncle. No, his great-uncle. Who we’ve never heard of before, even when comparable references were made prior. It was his grandfather we heard about before, who heard of the liberation, instead of this [great-]uncle who was there. Or was nearby. He was in the Army, which he joined the day after Pearl Harbor ... no wait it was the Navy he joined six months later. Yeah, he was there at Auchwitz. The Americans liberated that camp ... or was it the Soviets. No wait, it was Buchenwald he was at. Well, a sattellite camp. Yeah he was there. Or he heard about the liberation from soldiers that were there.
Ya know, when _every_ facet of the story is wrong, it ain’t just a “gaffe”.
Buchenwald was liberated on 11 April 1945 by elements of the 83rd AND the 89th Division.The 89th liberated Ohrdruf (a Buchenwald subcamp)
He also left out the 4th and 6th Armoured Divisions..the 89th was one of several units and was NOT the only one there as he implies
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=
neither was the navy, heh.