Word: buchenwalde
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...emperor, in this case, is the film "The Liberators," a PBS documentary being shown tonight at Sanders Theater. The film is about the all-Black Army units that it says helped liberate Dachau and Buchenwald, two of the biggest concentration camps in Nazi Germany...
...recent articles by Jeffrey Goldberg in The New Republic and The Forward have pointed out, the Black units featured in the film played no role in capturing Dachau or Buchenwald. That's the small problem. The big one is that most people--at Harvard and elsewhere--hold the noxious attitude that the film's historical inaccuracies are less important than its political message...
McConnell--shown in the 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...
...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...
...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...