Ritchie Boys

Richie Boys

The Ritchie Boys are the graduates of the Military Intelligence Training Center, the field intelligence unit of the US Army, known as Camp Ritchie, the training center of the United States Army during World War II. The approximately 9,000 participants were mainly young emigrants from Germany and Austria, mostly Jews, who had found a new home in the United States, to escape Nazi persecution.

Further info

Book:

Henderson, B. (2017).

Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler

Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler. 

United States: HarperCollins.

Film:

The Ritchie Boys IMBd, 2004.