Obama's World War II historyEarlier, the Republican National Committee
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0508/Soldiers_in_the_family.html">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
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10006140">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.
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