I shared my father's letters about Nazi horrors with a high school class
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.
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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