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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...
...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...
...article, Jeffrey Goldberg, the New York bureau chief of The forward, a weekly Yiddish newspaper, cites the commanders of the 761 st Infantry Division and the 183rd Combat Engineer Battalion as saying their units were nowhere near Dachau and Buchenwald, camps which the filmmakers say the Black units helped liberate...
...United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, in a statement issued last fall, says there is certainly evidence that Black soldiers fought heroically at the Battle of the Bulge and were liberators in Euchenwald, Gunskirchen, and Dora-Mittelbau concentration camps, but that their direct involvement at Buchenwald or Dachau could not be confirmed or denied...
Veteran Paul Parks, a Black mine engineer whose unit visited Dachau after its liberation, said he has reason to doubt the film's veracity...