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== Biography ==

~~Wiki profile records list~~ [[Stern, Guy (37413105)|Guy Stern]] (ASN 37413105), also known as [[Stern, Guy (37413105)|Günther Stern]]~~, as~~ born in 1922 in Germany, of Jewish faith, with Camp Ritchie Class 8 (section 5C, private), IPW Team 41, specialty POW interrogation, and Military Intelligence Service. He enlisted at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri; ~~civilian records~~ list two years of college and an occupation as a waiter~~. He died in 2023~~.

[[Stern, Guy (37413105)|Guy Stern]] (ASN 37413105), also known as [[Stern, Guy (37413105)|Günther Stern]] was born in 1922 in Germany, of Jewish faith, with Camp Ritchie Class 8 (section 5C, private), IPW Team 41, specialty POW interrogation, and Military Intelligence Service. He enlisted at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri; Records list two years of college and an occupation as a waiter.

He fled Nazi Germany for the United States and served in U.S. Army military intelligence as one of the German-Jewish Ritchie Boys. At Camp Ritchie he trained in interrogation methods that Bruce Henderson later summarized from Stern's account in ''Sons and Soldiers'': superior knowledge of enemy units, controlled incentives such as food or cigarettes, finding common interests with a prisoner, and exploiting a prisoner's fears—always under the Judge Advocate General admonition never to touch a prisoner.

With Fred Howard, and with help from Capt. [[Kann, Edgar W. (01183329)|Edgar Kann]], Stern also took part in the well-known "Commissar Krukov" ruse used to pressure German prisoners of war~~. Facebook posts on the Ritchie Boys of WWII page place him among the German-Jewish trainees highlighted by Henderson and identify him with IPW Team 41 teammates~~.

With Fred Howard, and with help from Capt. [[Kann, Edgar W. (01183329)|Edgar Kann]], Stern also took part in the well-known "Commissar Krukov" ruse used to pressure German prisoners of war.

Three days after D-Day (D+3), Stern landed at Normandy with a special military intelligence unit composed largely of German-, Austrian-, and Czech-born Jewish soldiers and interrogated prisoners of war on the front lines. After the war he remained a public interpreter of that experience: he was featured in the documentary film ''The Ritchie Boys'', spoke at events such as "Sunset on the Mountain" at the former Fort Ritchie Officers' Club, and served as director of the Harry and Wanda Zekelman International Institute of the Righteous at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills, Michigan. He was also a long-time board member of the Leo Baeck Institute in New York.

His memoir ''Invisible Ink''~~—anticipated on the Facebook page through~~ 2020 ~~and released that August—describes~~ his training, Normandy landing, and later life~~. The Ritchie Boys of WWII page reported his death in December 2023; contemporary coverage summarized his path from flight from the Nazis to wartime intelligence service and noted that he died at 101~~.

His memoir ''Invisible Ink'' (2020) describes his training, Normandy landing, and later life.

== Research notes ==

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 == Biography ==
-Wiki profile records list [[Stern, Guy (37413105)|Guy Stern]] (ASN 37413105), also known as [[Stern, Guy (37413105)|Günther Stern]], as born in 1922 in Germany, of Jewish faith, with Camp Ritchie Class 8 (section 5C, private), IPW Team 41, specialty POW interrogation, and Military Intelligence Service. He enlisted at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri; civilian records list two years of college and an occupation as a waiter. He died in 2023.
+[[Stern, Guy (37413105)|Guy Stern]] (ASN 37413105), also known as [[Stern, Guy (37413105)|Günther Stern]] was born in 1922 in Germany, of Jewish faith, with Camp Ritchie Class 8 (section 5C, private), IPW Team 41, specialty POW interrogation, and Military Intelligence Service. He enlisted at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri; Records list two years of college and an occupation as a waiter.
 He fled Nazi Germany for the United States and served in U.S. Army military intelligence as one of the German-Jewish Ritchie Boys. At Camp Ritchie he trained in interrogation methods that Bruce Henderson later summarized from Stern's account in ''Sons and Soldiers'': superior knowledge of enemy units, controlled incentives such as food or cigarettes, finding common interests with a prisoner, and exploiting a prisoner's fears—always under the Judge Advocate General admonition never to touch a prisoner.
-With Fred Howard, and with help from Capt. [[Kann, Edgar W. (01183329)|Edgar Kann]], Stern also took part in the well-known "Commissar Krukov" ruse used to pressure German prisoners of war. Facebook posts on the Ritchie Boys of WWII page place him among the German-Jewish trainees highlighted by Henderson and identify him with IPW Team 41 teammates.
+With Fred Howard, and with help from Capt. [[Kann, Edgar W. (01183329)|Edgar Kann]], Stern also took part in the well-known "Commissar Krukov" ruse used to pressure German prisoners of war.
 Three days after D-Day (D+3), Stern landed at Normandy with a special military intelligence unit composed largely of German-, Austrian-, and Czech-born Jewish soldiers and interrogated prisoners of war on the front lines. After the war he remained a public interpreter of that experience: he was featured in the documentary film ''The Ritchie Boys'', spoke at events such as "Sunset on the Mountain" at the former Fort Ritchie Officers' Club, and served as director of the Harry and Wanda Zekelman International Institute of the Righteous at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills, Michigan. He was also a long-time board member of the Leo Baeck Institute in New York.
-His memoir ''Invisible Ink''—anticipated on the Facebook page through 2020 and released that August—describes his training, Normandy landing, and later life. The Ritchie Boys of WWII page reported his death in December 2023; contemporary coverage summarized his path from flight from the Nazis to wartime intelligence service and noted that he died at 101.
+His memoir ''Invisible Ink'' (2020) describes his training, Normandy landing, and later life.
 == Research notes ==