Michael Hanrahan narrates this relatively unknown story of 10 primarily German-born Jews expelled from Nazi Germany, who would become true heroes. These scholarly gentlemen used their wealth of knowledge by joining the U.S. Army and being trained at the Military Intelligence Training Center at Camp Ritchie in Maryland. Becoming known as the Ritchie Boys they would return to Europe and help break German resistance in covert operations. Their interrogations of POWs would physically demoralize Hitler's troops, but even more psychologically. The Ritchie Boys knew that the main fear of German soldiers was being turned over to the Russians. The Ritchie Boys never claimed to be fighters...but intellectuals; and most had no idea that after fleeing Germany they would play a major role in the Allied war effort. In total these young immigrants were about 10,000 strong. The cast features several prominent members of the Ritchie Boys: Guy Stern, Fred Howard, Morris Parloff, Hans Spear, Si Lewen, Hans Habe, Werner Angress and Stefan Heym.
Review of The Ritchie Boys
