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Auschwitz Gaffe Trips Obama

Posted May 28, 08 7:00 AM CDT in World,  Politics 

(Newser) – Barack Obama has admitted he got his concentration camps mixed up when speaking to a Memorial Day audience, Reuters reports. The candidate spoke of how his great-uncle helped liberate Auschwitz when, as Republicans were quick to point out, that couldn't have happened unless his relative was in the Soviet Red Army. Obama's great-uncle was actually among the American troops who liberated the prisoners at Buchenwald.

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Nazi concentration camp survivors and their family members walk in front of the entrance building in the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar, Germany, Sunday, April 13, 2008.   (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
Nazi concentration camp survivor Emil Alperin from Ukraine cries in the crematory of the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar, Germany, Friday, April 11, 2008.   (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
People walk behind the slogan 'Everyone gets what he deserves" at the entrance of the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar, Germany, Friday, April 11, 2008.   (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
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