Paul Fairbrook: Well, because it was an unusual part of the United States Army. Guy Stern: This one was our most effective leaflet and why was that? Museum to Confer its Highest Honor, The Elie Wiesel Award, Secret Unit Formed 80 Years Ago Was Instrumental in Nazi GermanysDefeat and Included Many Who Had Fled the Regime. It was the viewing of that film that converted Dan into a Ritchie Boy Wannabe and launched him on a quest to help publicize this heroic group. You want to give them that feeling that you know who they are, they know who you are. After the war, Guy Stern and the other Ritchie Boys were celebrated for their achievements. According to the Holocaust Museum, two Jewish soldiers were taken captive and executed after being identified as German-born Jews, and there were about 200 Ritchie Boys alive as of May 2022. After Pearl Harbor brought America into the war, many of those sons were eager to return to Europe and find their families. We were all on the same wavelength. Web4.73K subscribers The Ritchie Boys of World War Two were more than 15,000 servicemen who fled Nazi Germany and Austria, becoming instrumental in the allied war effort with On June 6, 1944, D-Day the Allies launched one of the most sweeping military operations in history. Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Courtesy of the Holocaust Memorial Center, Hosted by Defense Media Activity - WEB.mil, https://www.defense.gov/Explore/Spotlight/WWII/. Guy Stern: I was called to the company office and told you're shipping out. In the Ardennes region of Belgium, the Germans mounted a massive counteroffensive, which became known as the Battle of the Bulge. Victor Brombert: We were supposed to arrest important Nazi officials. Every day, Americas service members selflessly put their lives on the line to keep us safe and free. Ritchie Boys Approximately 20,000 menmany of whom were immigrants and refugees from more than 70 countries, including 2,800 German and Austrian refugees who fled We see those who are the greatest of the greatest generation. As was philanthropist David Rockefeller and media baron and billionaire John Kluge. You know a lot about them already. After Hitler's defeat, many of them took on a challenging new assignment using their language and interrogation skills to find and arrest top Nazi war criminals. Already available are biographies and memoirs by and about individual Ritchie Boys as well as the book by the NYT best-selling author Bruce Henderson and books about Austrian-born Ritchie Boys by Robert Lackner and Florian Traussnig.
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