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Auschwitz Gaffe Trips Obama

Candidate mixes up his camps when talking about great-uncle

By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff

Posted May 28, 2008 7:00 AM CDT

(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...   Read full story »

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