Politics | Auschwitz Auschwitz Gaffe Trips Obama Candidate mixes up his camps when talking about great-uncle By Rob Quinn Posted May 28, 2008 7:00 AM CDT Copied Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks during a Memorial Day town hall-style meeting at the Farm and Ranch Museum in Las Cruces, N.M., Monday, May 26, 2008. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson) Barack Obama has admitted he got his concentration camps mixed up when speaking to a Memorial Day audience, Reuters reports. The candidate spoke of how his great-uncle helped liberate Auschwitz when, as Republicans were quick to point out, that couldn't have happened unless his relative was in the Soviet Red Army. Obama's great-uncle was actually among the American troops who liberated the prisoners at Buchenwald. Read These Next North Carolina shooting suspect once walked the red carpet. The gunman who killed 4 at a Michigan church was an ex-marine. 'We heard a big bang,' says churchgoer in Michigan Multiple people have been shot at a Mormon church in Michigan. Report an error