UPDATE #2: Uh Oh. Great-uncle Charles was in the navy in WWII. How did they get to Buchenwald ? Up the Rhine ?
UPDATE: Somebody liberated Auschwitz, we just don’t know who. I think it’s a Tuzla moment but you won’t hear as much about it as Hillary’s embellishment.
I decided to include a new feature in the blog. Obama is a walking, talking gaffe machine. Here is one of the gaffes from yesterday.
Obama also spoke about his uncle, who was part of the American brigade that helped to liberate Auschwitz. He said the family legend is that, upon returning from war, his uncle spent six months in an attic. “Now obviously, something had really affected him deeply, but at that time there just weren’t the kinds of facilities to help somebody work through that kind of pain,”
Auschwitz was liberated by the Red Army on January 25, 1945. The US Army was not yet across the Rhine having just fought the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium. Maybe Obama’s uncle served in the Red Army.
Now that I think about it ….