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Mayer's WWII experience as a Jewish refugee from Germany and member of the U.S. "Ritchie Boys" intelligence unit inspired his deep scholarship on the history of diplomacy.

  (JTA) — Guy Stern, a German Jewish refugee who was one of the last known surviving members of the celebrated World War II military intelligence unit known as the “Ritchie Boys” and who became an accomplished Holocaust scholar after the war, died Dec. 7, a little over a month shy of his 102nd birthday. […]

The Ritchie Boys were intelligence specialists trained at Camp Ritchie, Maryland, including 2,000 German refugees who fought for America.

In her latest novel, the author explores the life and times of Bess Myerson, the daughter of Jewish immigrants who was crowned Miss America in 1945, when hostility against Jews was high. (Sponsored)

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My father had witnessed the liberation of a concentration camp and the dissolution of the Nazi regime, but for 50 years, he told no one.

The Ritchie Boys, many of them Jewish refugees, trained in the U.S. and returned to Europe to help defeat Hitler and the Nazis.

The Ritchie Boys were trained to interrogate prisoners of war who were brought to the site, to translate and intercept messages, to engage in psychological warfare against the Nazis.

Cincinnati man escaped Nazi Germany and eventually served in the U.S. Army interrogating Nazi German soldiers to help the Allied Forces.

Adolph “Ed” Baer never intended to return to the small town of Griedel, Germany, after leaving his home in the middle of the night in 1939 when he was 9