There is another serious mistake in a controversial exhibit about Germany’s World War II army that was recently shut down. Jan Philipp Reemtsma, director of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research, which mounted the exhibit, has admitted that the 1941 murder of 4,500 Jews in a Soviet town was actually committed by Lithuanian Nazis and not by German soldiers. The exhibit, “The War of Extermination: Crimes of the Wehrmacht From 1941 to 1944,” had been scheduled to come to New York next month, but it has been shut down for three months while it is being investigated by historians.
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