Werner E. Stark

Werner E. Stark
Personal details
Born	1921 Munich Germany
Died	25 July 1995 Oakland, Michigan
Nativity	Germany
Religion	Jewish
Military service
Allegiance	United States
Branch	United States Army
ASN	36598320
Rank	Private First Class
Camp Ritchie	Class 25 (30 November 1944 – 29 January 1945)
Section	5C
Team	IPW 208

Teammates

Team — IPW 208

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Werner E. Stark (1921 – 25 July 1995) was a Ritchie Boy (from Germany; Jewish) who trained at Camp Ritchie in class 25 and served with IPW Team 208.

Biography

Werner Erwin Stark, February 12 1921, born in Munich Germany, was from a Jewish family of textile merchants. During World War Two, Stark enlisted in the US Army and was trained in counterintelligence at Fort Ritchie, Maryland. Stark performed a variety of counterintelligence tasks, including being dropped into Germany under a false name. According to a summary of an oral history Stark provided to the Holocaust Memorial Center, Zekelman Family Campus, in Michigan, he also served "... as an interpreter at the Nuremberg trials of war criminals, ... [interrogated] the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele, and [provided] surveillance of the former girlfriend of Ernst Kaltenbrunner, chief of the German Security Service as related to her associations with American army officers.". Werner Stark died July 25 1995 in Oakland Michigan. Together with his older brother Walter, he immigrated to the United States via France in 1938. His parents and sister were able to join him shortly thereafter. He served in Europe as one of the "Ritchie Boys.

Research notes

• Mengele (Oral history)
• Jackie Odom (dau)
• Jim Burnstein
• 15th Army
• OCR (89%) of `5797157686972771.jpg` (gallery document).

Gallery

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Technical record

Field	Imported value
Approx Age at Death	74
Class_ASN	36598320
Class_Name	STARK, Werner E.
match_method	asn_exact_name_exact
row_source	both

Sources

• Camp Ritchie class roster (classes 1–31), merged research file
• NARA World War II Army enlistment records (where a NARA ASN is present)
• 1940 U.S. Census (where a census match is present)
• Ritchie Boys of WWII Facebook page, post dated 2022-10-23 (1 post)
• OCR-reviewed Facebook gallery document: 5797157686972771.jpg