Fleeing Nazi persecution for America in the 1930s, the young German-born Jews
who would come to be known as The Ritchie Boys were labelled ‘enemy aliens’
when war broke out. Although of the age to be inducted into the U.S. military,
their German accents made them distrusted. Until one day in 1942, when the
Pentagon woke up to the incredible asset they had in their ranks, and sent these
young recruits to a secret military intelligence training centre at Camp Ritchie,
Maryland.
These men knew the language, culture and psychology of the enemy better than
anyone, and had the greatest motivation to fight Hitler’s anti-Semitic regime. And
so they were trained and sent back into the belly of the beast, Jews returning to the
frontlines of battlefields across Nazi-occupied Europe to defeat the enemy that
persecuted them and their families.
