Barack Obama Admits He Never Liberated Auschwitz Barack Obama has admitted that he lied about his uncle liberating Auschwitz during the last World War, when really it was the Communist Soviets. This "error" provides empirical evidence that he's also lying about everything else. For example, when he says Americans need "Hope," he really means Americans need "Pope," which plagiarizes the entire JFK platform in 1960. According to the campaign, he "meant to refer to the Buchenwald camp, which American soldiers did liberate. Obama was also apparently referring to his great uncle."