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'The Ritchie Boys': True tale of unlikely heroes
by Hap Erstein

At a time when Japanese-Americans were being interned in camps as security risks, a small group of German émigrés who had fled the persecution of their homeland were being trained by the United States government at Fort Ritchie, Md. — just outside the nation's capital — to interrogate, infiltrate and, in extreme cases, kill their former countrymen. These so-called Ritchie Boys recount their stories in a remarkable documentary by Germany's Christian Bauer. Read the full review

TO SUM UP
As teenagers they had escaped the Nazis. They trained in intelligence work and psychological warfare at Camp Ritchie, Maryland, and returned to Europe as U.S. soldiers — with the greatest personal motivation to fight this war.

FILM FACTS ...

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'The Ritchie Boys'

Director: Christian Bauer
Starring: Hans Peter Hallwachs, Victor Brombert, Fred Howard, Si Lewen, Guy Stern
Run time: 91 minutes
Release date: April 23, 2004
Rating: Not rated
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