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General News 5/31/2009 at 12:34 PM EDT

Barack Obama's Great Uncle Criticises Him over Buchenwald Visit

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Barack Obama faced unprecedented public criticism from a member of his own family when his great uncle said he was only visiting a concentration camp next week for 'political reasons'. Charles Payne, 84, was among the American infantrymen who liberated Ohrdruf, a subdivision of the Buchenwald camp, in April 1945.

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