Sons and Soldiers

The Extraordinary Story of the Ritchie Boys, the Jews Who Returned to Fight Hitler Bruce Henderson This is the story of the Ritchie Boys, a group of some two thousand young German Jews who had taken refuge in the United States fleeing Nazi persecution, and who were trained by the American army in the tasks of interrogating prisoners of war and gathering intelligence. Divided into small elite groups, they joined all American combat units: they participated in the Normandy landings, advanced with Patton through France, participated in the Battle of the Bulge, and discovered in the Buchenwald camp all the horror of the Holocaust. Bruce Henderson has drawn on the personal memories of the survivors to follow the story of a group of these men from their flight from Germany, throughout the war and in their attempts to discover the fate of their families. A fascinating book that reveals an unknown chapter of World War II history. An epic story of heroism and courage