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Thanks, OP! Article said, a documentary has been done on the Ritchie Boys. I look forward to seeing that. If you're tracking it, please let us know when it gets released. Also, there was a 60 Minutes segment on the Ritchie Boys in 2021. I'm going to try to pull that up on youtube.
60 Minutes 1-hr. segment on the Ritchie Boys. Click on "watch on youtube", and from there, click on "I wish to continue" when the "this may no be suitable for some audiences" warning shows.
These men were sent into combat zones in Europe and faced some of the same perils as combat infantrymen. I believe that during the Battle of the Bulge some of them were captured and summarily executed simply because of their Jewish heritage.
I found an article from a German media outlet NDR (Norddeutsche Rundfunk) about how memorial cobblestones (Stolpersteine in German) were placed on the sidewalk in front of the home where Guy Stern's family lived in Hildesheim. The home is still there, and the memorial cobblestones show the names of each family member, and say that were deported to the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942 and murdered there. These memorial cobblestones were placed last year while Guy Stern was still a living 100 year old. His comment on the memorial cobblestones was "This is a nice gesture. It comes late, but it is here now". The article also goes on to mention the "survivor's guilt" that Guy Stern has dealt with, but he used it as a force to accomplish good things in life.
There are nearly 100,000 of these memorial cobblestones in cities and towns in most parts of Germany. When I lived in Chemnitz, Germany there were many in my neighborhood and even on the same street where I lived. Passing by a "stolperstein", it was always a jolting reminder that a deep, dark point in history was not that long ago.
The late diplomat, Henry Kissinger also served as a US Army translator. As a boy, he immigrated from Bavaria to NYC.
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