There were a few diaries over this earlier.
Conservatives have been foaming at the mouth over a comment Barack made about his uncle being one of the first American soldiers to enter Auchswitz. Anyways, The Obama camp has clarified.
Earlier, the Republican National Committee pounced on Obama's improbable statement that an uncle had served in the unit that liberated Auschwitz.
In fact, campaign spokesman Bill Burton says, his great uncle was a member of the 89th Infantry Division that liberated the Ohrduf camp, part of Buchenwald and, according to the Holocaust Museum, the first concentration camp liberated by U.S. troops.
The soldier in question, Burton said, is Obama's grandmother's brother, who's still alive.
So he got the name of the camp wrong. But his uncle was part of the first American division that liberated a concentration camp. Really interesting! And it's great to know that he is still alive and watching his great-nephew become the President of the United States!