No rancor, no bitterness, no hatred
Tim Smith was from my home town, Lake Geneva. In 1965 he enlisted in the Marine Corps, at 18.
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Tim Smith was from my home town, Lake Geneva. In 1965 he enlisted in the Marine Corps, at 18.
To tap into the German PoWs’ greatest dread, Stern pretended to be ‘Commissar Krukow’, an irascible, semi-demented Russian liaison officer
Guy Stern, who has died aged 101, was a German-born member of the Ritchie Boys, an American Military Intelligence interrogation unit, in the Second World War.
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.
Guy Stern, one of the last surviving members of an elite branch of the U.S. Army known as the “Ritchie Boys” died on Thursday, Dec. 7. He was 101 years old.