Word: 761st
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Criticism surrounds the film's claim that the Black 761st and 183rd Battalions helped liberate prisoners from the notorious Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps...
...Holocaust survivors the film quotes as saying they were liberated by the 761st, at least three of them can no longer remember when the first encountered Black soldiers. "It hard to say now," says one. "I know there were Black soldiers in the camp, but I don't know when exactly...
...Holocaust Memorial Museum has issued a statement saving there is no "positive written evidence" that the 761st helped liberate Dachau or Buchenwald...
...film didn't have to be this way. All Black Army units did help liberate some concentration camps, according to the Holocaust Memorial Museum. Indeed, the 761st helped liberate the smaller camp of Gunskirchen, while the all-Black 703rd Tank Battalion helped liberate a subcamp of Buchenwald...
...despite discrimination in the U.S. Army, Black soldiers performed heroically when faced with the more challenging task of fighting the Germans. The 761st has an outstanding battle record--particularly during the Battle of the Bulge--for which it received a Presidential Unit Citation. The citation, by the way, did not mention any role played in liberating Dachau or Buchenwald...