In The Military Intelligence Training Center and the War against Nazism, Patricia Kollander argues that “works covering the history of German and Austrian Americans during the Second World War era say little about the recent émigrés who fought in the U.S army [against the Nazism].” Patricia Kollander is a professor of History at Florida Atlantic University. She worked very hard to bring the achievements of the Germen and Austrian émigré soldiers to light by publishing many articles including “Boomerang Resistance: German Emigres in the U.S. Army …” , “A companion to the Second World War”, “I must be the part of the War: A German-American’s Fight Against Hitler and Nazism”, and more. Thus in this article, Kollander highlighted the contribution
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According to the Author of this article, scholars have paid scarce attention to émigrés, training at Camp Ritchie. According to this article, “several émigrés published their individual memoirs, but none placed their experiences in the wider context of their overall contribution against Nazism in particular.” To continue on this topic, the only known book about the Camp Ritchie or Ritchie boys was by the late German filmmaker Christian Bauer. However, even this book was based on oral histories as opposed to the archival research. However, the author of “Victim Soldiers: German- Jewish Refugees in the American Armed Forces during World War II”, Joshua Franklin believed it differently, he mentioned in the article that “Jews who served in the American Armed forces during World War II has been a topic that has received significant attention from scholars.” Well, this might be true but as I was looking for more Academic journal articles for German Austrian U.S. soldiers’ experience in World War II, I had hard time finding them. But, I found a website called “The Ritchie Boys” and it had some stories, press articles and the name of the German and Austrian émigrés who fought against their homeland, Germany, with the U.S. However, even on that website it is said that the story of Ritchie boys is more untold in many ways than told, not many people know about
According to the Author of this article, scholars have paid scarce attention to émigrés, training at Camp Ritchie. According to this article, “several émigrés published their individual memoirs, but none placed their experiences in the wider context of their overall contribution against Nazism in particular.” To continue on this topic, the only known book about the Camp Ritchie or Ritchie boys was by the late German filmmaker Christian Bauer. However, even this book was based on oral histories as opposed to the archival research. However, the author of “Victim Soldiers: German- Jewish Refugees in the American Armed Forces during World War II”, Joshua Franklin believed it differently, he mentioned in the article that “Jews who served in the American Armed forces during World War II has been a topic that has received significant attention from scholars.” Well, this might be true but as I was looking for more Academic journal articles for German Austrian U.S. soldiers’ experience in World War II, I had hard time finding them. But, I found a website called “The Ritchie Boys” and it had some stories, press articles and the name of the German and Austrian émigrés who fought against their homeland, Germany, with the U.S. However, even on that website it is said that the story of Ritchie boys is more untold in many ways than told, not many people know about