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...says E.G. McConnell, one of the veterans of the 761st Tank Battalion who's quoted in The New Republic...
...film during his "return" to Buchenwald with another veteran and a survivor--says he stopped cooperating with the film's producers when he began to doubt their accuracy. "We were nowhere near those camps when they were liberated. I first went to Buchenwald in 1991 with PBS, not the 761st...
...totally inaccurate," says a former captain in the 761st. "[The men] couldn't have been where they say they were because the camp was sixty miles away from where we were on the day [of liberation...
...battalion's former commander says: "In our after-action reports, there is no indication that we were near either one of [the camps]....[We] do not claim to have liberated those camps." Nine other veterans of the 761st, including the president of its veterans' association, also deny having liberated Dachau or Buchenwald...
...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...