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The Stories
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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[edit | edit source]
- Camp Ritchie Background — Founding of the Military Intelligence Training Center
- Life in Camp Ritchie — Quotes from Bauer’s film about everyday training life
- Passover at Camp Ritchie (1945) — JWB/USO records of the first-night Seder for Jewish trainees, spring 1945
- Camp Ritchie naturalization (July 1943) — Washington Post report of 85 soldiers naturalized (almost all from Camp Ritchie)
- The Enemy I Knew — German Jews in the Allied military in World War II
Profiles from The Enemy I Knew[edit | edit source]
- 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[edit | edit source]
- 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)