[bronxville]

Mr Obama soon called Mr Payne to check the details of his war experience, he said. "He wanted to know where this camp was that I had helped liberate. I told him that it was Ohrdruf and that it was a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp. I described a little bit of what I had seen," he said.

[bronxville]

Mr Payne - Obama's great-uncle

[Eagles6]

Ouch! That’s gonna leave a mark.

[Yaelle]

Was this the uncle who was thrown under the Obama Bus by way of the story of how he returned from the war and spent years cowering in the attic???

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Of course, lost in all the hoopla is the fact that Ohrdruf-Nord was a work camp filled with ex-German soldiers charged with constructing Hitler’s final bunker. It was not a concentration/death camp like Buchenwald or Auschwitz. There were few if any Jews or POW’s there.