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05/28/2008: "Obama mistaken on name of Nazi death camp"

The Barack Obama campaign said Tuesday the candidate mistakenly referred to the wrong Nazi death camp when relating the story of a great-uncle who helped liberate the camps in World War II.

The Democratic presidential candidate said the story is accurate except that the camp was Buchenwald, not Auschwitz.

"Senator Obama's family is proud of the service of his grandfather and uncles in World War II especially the fact that his great-uncle was a part of liberating one of the concentration camps at Buchenwald," campaign spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement. "Yesterday he mistakenly referred to Auschwitz instead of Buchenwald in telling of his personal experience of a soldier in his family who served heroically."

[ Obama has to get his camps straight if he wants to win the trust of the Jews. Why is this story just coming out now, when he could have capitalized on that much longer ago, I wonder. ]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080528/ap_on_el_pr/obama_nazi_camp;_ylt=AtX5QUm2RYLxmTh39rLIlV2s0NUE