False

BBC News

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Reagan, who died in 2004, was indeed commissioned a captain in the US Army during the war, but his poor eyesight left him ineligible for service overseas.

True

Ronald Reagan (40th President of the United States)

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President Ronald Reagan Shamir was said to have been impressed by Reagan's recollection - in fact, false - of seeing a Nazi death camp In 1983, President Ronald Reagan told Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir that he had served as a photographer in a US Army unit assigned to film Nazi death camps at the end of World War II, the Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv reported at the time.

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Mr Shamir related the tale to his cabinet, and a few months later, Reagan repeated the story to Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal and Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the Washington Post reported.

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Mr Shamir related the tale to his cabinet, and a few months later, Reagan repeated the story to Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal and Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the Washington Post reported.

BBC News - Political falsehoods, exaggerations and embellishments

Mr Shamir related the tale to his cabinet, and a few months later, Reagan repeated the story to Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal and Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the Washington Post reported.