The President in Germany

[David Casseres]

[I wrote]
>I believe President Ronald Wilson Reagan, surely an auteur in life if not
>in movies, once told a puzzled audience that he had been among the first
>American troops to enter Auschwitz, with an Army documentary film unit.

Don Larsson sez
>If he did so, it was another of those bits of "creative" history that he
>was so prone to.  Reagan was cozily stateside for most, if not all, the war,
>working on supposed propaganda stuff.

Oh yeah, that was why the audience (journalists) was puzzled.  They knew 
that Reagan's Army unit never left Hollywood.

>And then he went and honored those dead SS "victims" of the war!

In a speech written by Buchanan, to give blame where it is due -- and 
never recanted or repudiated in any way by any American administration, 
as far as I know.


Cheers,
David