The Stories

The Stories collects narrative essays about Camp Ritchie and individual Ritchie Boys. Full essays live here; matching soldier pages carry only a short summary and a link back.

Camp and themes

• Camp Ritchie Background — Founding of the Military Intelligence Training Center
• The Enemy I Knew — German Jews in the Allied military in World War II

Profiles from The Enemy I Knew

• Fred Fields — Fred Fields
• John Brunswick — John Brunswick
• Karl Goldsmith — Karl G. Smith (Karl Goldsmith)
• Kurt Klein — Kurt Klein
• Manfred Steinfeld — Manfred Steinfeld
• Ralph Baer — Ralph Baer
• William Katzenstein — William Katzenstein

People

• The Patricia Crane Story — WAC T/5 Patricia Crane and a later family reunion
• Memoirs of Sidney Dombroff — Memoirs of Sidney Dombroff
• Eric Waldman — The life and times of Captain Eric Waldman
• Herbert K. Oehmichen — Memorial biography for Herbert K. Oehmichen
• Guy Stern — Guy Stern
• Kurt Kugelmann — Kurt Kugelmann
• Hans A. Land — Hans A. Land: a life defined by fortune and resilience
• My Life as a Fish — Autobiography excerpts by Alfred G. Meyer (Camp Ritchie chapters)

See also

• Introduction
• Secret Heroes/First Class
• Secret Heroes/Battle of the Bulge
• Camp Ritchie
• Contents