Chronicle: Ritchie Boys. As the world commemorated the 80th anniversary of “V-E Day”, the end of World War Two in Europe, the family of an Omaha man talked with KETV Newswatch 7 about their ...

The Ritchie Boys. The story of German Jews who escaped Nazi Germany only to return as US Army intelligence soldiers. For the first time, the surviving ‘boys’ speak on camera about their rigorous ...

A lot of other Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria felt the same way and they ended up becoming “Ritchie Boys” who trained at the top-secret Camp Ritchie located in the mountains of Maryland.

The so-called Ritchie Boys, who included around 2,000 Jewish refugees, would come to be responsible for what was later estimated as around 60% of the U.S.’ usable intelligence during the war.

A lot of other Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria felt the same way and they ended up becoming “Ritchie Boys” who trained at the top-secret Camp Ritchie located in the mountains of Maryland.

During WWII, the U.S. formed an elite intelligence unit -- mostly German Jewish academics -- at Camp Ritchie, Maryland. Tasked with devising ways to break the morale of the SS, these men are often ...

Guy Stern, Holocaust refugee who interrogated Nazi POWs, dies at 101. The sole member of his family to escape Nazi Germany, he returned to Europe as one of the U.S. military intelligence soldiers ...

Born in Germany to Russian-Jewish parents, he grew up in Paris but fled to the United States during the German occupation of France, experiences he recounted in a highly regarded memoir, “Trains ...