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...says E.G. McConnell, one of the veterans of the 761st Tank Battalion who's quoted in The New Republic...
...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...
...former commander of the 183rd Combat Engineer Battalion, which the film says helped liberate Buchenwald, says his want visited that camp only after it had been liberated. And another former member of the 183rd says he cannot remember precisely when he arrived at the camp...
...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...
Students in both the BSA and Hillel agree with Epps that interest among undergraduates seems high, despite lack of student sponsorship and recent controversy about the film's historical accuracy. According to an article in The New Republic, many of the soldiers involved in the 761st Tank Battalion and the 183rd Combat Engineer Battalion said their units were not involved in the liberation of Dachau on Buchenwald. The film says soldiers from those battalions were involved in liberating those specific camps...