Word: dachau
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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...
...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 Memorial Museum has issued a statement saving there is no "positive written evidence" that the 761st helped liberate Dachau or Buchenwald...
...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...