Buchenwald survivors see Obama as family

[sabra]

Source: CNN

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U.S. troops saw the horror of the Nazi regime first hand when they came through this gate on April 11, 1945, and found camp inmates starved to the bone, many too weak to stand.

"We couldn't even show our joy at this moment, which we had been waiting for so long," said former inmate Zeev Factor, recalling the day American troops came to liberate the camp.

Now the camp is getting ready to host President Obama, who has a special relationship with Buchenwald. His great-uncle Charlie Payne, 84, helped liberate a sub-camp here when he was an infantryman fighting in World War II.

"The survivors see President Obama almost like a grandson of theirs," said the director of the Buchenwald memorial, Volker Knigge, speaking just outside the front gate.

"The president is related to one of the brave men who came here and saw the Nazi horror first hand. The soldiers only had vague knowledge of what concentration camps actually were, but here they saw people too weak to survive, even after having been liberated."

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/06/04/obama.pre.visit/index.html

[MADem]

1. That's a great story. What I like best about it is that it will mess with the heads of these putzes

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=124x277213

[santamargarita]

2. President Obama's Great Uncle help liberate Jews from a Nazi camp and....

Bush's Grandfather helped put them there.

[Karenina]

3. Bada-bing, bada-BOOM!

[Kber]

4. Well, that's really all she wrote, isn't it?