UNTANGLING PAUL PARKS'S TALL TALES RECORDS CONTRADICT MORE WARTIME STORIES From: The Boston Globe | Date: October 22, 2000| Author: Walter V. Robinson, and Thomas Farragher, Globe Staff | Copyright 2000 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

BERLIN - When Boston civil rights leader Paul Parks receives the Raoul Wallenberg Award here tonight for his 1945 role in liberating the Dachau concentration camp, the applause may be tentative, given fresh evidence that he was nowhere near the Nazi death camp and that his multiple stories about his involvement in the D-day landing were also concocted.

But there is much more about the Parks record to question: A review of military documents, interviews with other soldiers, and a close ...

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