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...documentary, set to be shown on campus Monday, is "filled with inaccuracies" about the role of the Black troops credited with aiding the liberation of Nazi concentration camps Dachau and Buchenwald, according to University of Texas professor of history Robert H. Abzug...
...film has been the subject of many accusations of historical inaccuracies, including some in a recent article in The New Republic. Abzug said the film misdates events, places troops in wrong locations and misidentifies specific camps...
...didn't want my name attached to something so inaccurate," said Abzug, who authored the book Inside the Vicious Heart: Americans and the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps...
Kelly also said the filmmakers did consult Abzug "during the research phase of the film," as well as for the film's the companion book. Abzug, however, said he had no contact with producers since last August, after he was asked to be named as a consultant on a federal grant application...
...problem is that the negotiators cannot operate in a world divorced from dogmas. In the case of discussions about birth control, the pressures came from the Vatican and fundamentalist Muslims. Ironically, according to summit officials, feminists led by former U.S. Congresswoman Bella Abzug may have unintentionally aided the forces aligned against family planning by pushing aggressively for a more liberal women's reproductive-rights agenda than the conservative cultures in the developing world could accept...