Let's go with the story Mia, and see where it leads...
America blog opens up with the banner:
America, Love it or Fix It.
hmmm...
Now the story isn't that the American 89th Division liberated a Concentration camp, but that his uncle was one of the first to liberate it. I guessed that Obama mistakenly said Auschwitz instead of Dachau, another Nazi death camp American soldiers liberated.
Now, notice what the Holocaust Museum said, The unit that Obama's relitive is believed to have served in liberated Buchenwald. I did not see them say it was Charles W. Payne who liberated it.
I can not find any such statement at the US Holocaust Museum web-site,
http://www.ushmm.org/ , and can't seem to find the story except on the bolg you linked.
hmmm...
I did find this:
In fact, Obama's great uncle took part in the liberation of one of the concentration camps at Buchenwald, spokesman Bill Burton said this afternoon.
http://weblogs.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/blog/obama/You'd think Chicago trib would be hot on this 'proof'.
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.
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/politics/16407801/detail.html?rss=bos&psp=news[well, not really the camp per se, but a camp related to the camp...]
Boston, that hotbed of Republican politics, should be jumping on this new news story!
The holocaust Museum says:
On April 4, 1945, the 89th overran Ohrdruf, a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Ohrdruf was the first Nazi concentration camp liberated by U.S. troops in Germany. A week later, on April 12, Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower, George S. Patton, and Omar Bradley visited Ohrdruf to see, firsthand, evidence of Nazi atrocities against concentration camp prisoners.Not quiet the news release stating Obama was 'factually correct'.
And what of Ohrdruf? http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10006131
Created in November 1944 near the town of Gotha, Germany, Ohrdruf supplied forced labor in the form of concentration camp prisoners for railway construction leading to a proposed communications center, which was never completed due to the rapid American advance. In late March 1945, the camp had a prisoner population of some 11,700, but in early April the SS evacuated almost all the prisoners on death marches to Buchenwald. The SS guards killed many of the remaining prisoners who were too ill to walk to the railcars.
When the soldiers of the 4th Armored Division ( and the 89th Infantry Division, credited with the liberation) entered the camp, they discovered piles of bodies, some covered with lime, and others partially incinerated on pyres. The ghastly nature of their discovery led General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe, to visit the camp on April 12, with Generals George S. Patton and Omar Bradley
The 4th Armored Division's discovery of the Ohrdruf camp opened the eyes of many U.S. soldiers to the horrors perpetrated by the Nazis during the Holocaust.
