"These men were complicit in a "symbolism over substance" pr stunt. The lie is the stunt.
They need to come clean fast, say mea culpa and now publish the record better. How many books are now wrong?
How many black history month propaganda films are now wrong but are NEVER going to be corrected in order to protect image over substance? Answer NONE."
Here is another link to a rewriting of history, it is about an award winning documentary that was revealed to be simply made up.
"It took a months-long campaign by veterans of the genuine liberator units to get PBS to disavow the 1992 documentary,"Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II," which falsely credited the 761st Tank and another African-American battalion (183rd Combat Engineers) with liberating Buchenwald and Dachau, the two largest camps freed by Americans."
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b125b384e8f.htm
Here's another snip from a review about Brokaws book about Johnnie Holmes that is not mentioned in the article you linked:
A case in point is the shocking story of Sgt Johnnie Holmes, who "encountered real, bitter racial hatred and segregation for the first time" when he arrived for training in Kentucky. Brokaw records that "Holmes is persuaded that Fort Knox dentists experimented on the black soldiers. He remembers being strapped in a dentist chair and getting his teeth drilled with no novocaine" (p. 195).
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0ICK/is_2_14/ai_68507718