“... we inadvertently wrote that American troops liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau. He was, of course, released by the Soviet troops, ”the embassy said in a statement on Twitter.
The Russian Embassy in the United States, commenting on what happened, called it a shameless rewriting of history.
Earlier, the French leader Emmanuel Macron during a memorial ceremony in the Paris Holocaust Museum, dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, noted the role of Soviet soldiers in the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland.