Ritchie Boys

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:group_of_people
gptkb:military_unit
gptkbp:activeDuring gptkb:World_War_II
gptkbp:awarded various U.S. military honors
gptkbp:composedOf mainly German-speaking immigrants
mainly Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany
gptkbp:contributedTo Allied victory in Europe
gptkbp:country gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:documentedIn gptkb:Ritchie_Boys_(2004_documentary)
books and articles on WWII intelligence
gptkbp:estimated_number about 9,000
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Ritchie Boys
gptkbp:legacy contributions to postwar U.S. intelligence
influence on U.S. psychological warfare doctrine
gptkbp:namedAfter gptkb:Camp_Ritchie
gptkbp:notable_member gptkb:Martin_Blumenson
gptkb:Hans_Scholl
gptkb:Herbert_Marcuse
gptkb:Robert_K._Merton
gptkb:Walter_Kohn
gptkb:Yehuda_Bauer
gptkb:Stefan_Heym
gptkb:Ernst_Cramer
gptkb:Kurt_Klein
gptkb:Hans_Habe
gptkb:Henry_Kissinger
gptkb:Ralph_Ingersoll
gptkb:Klaus_Mann
gptkb:Hans_Morgenthau
gptkb:Peter_Masters
gptkb:Peter_Sichel
gptkb:Guy_Stern
gptkb:Julius_Goldstein
gptkb:Werner_Michael_Blumenthal
gptkb:Arno_Mayer
gptkb:David_Robert_Seymour
gptkb:Eric_Hamberg
gptkb:Frank_Blaichman
gptkb:Fred_Howard
gptkb:Gerhard_L._Weinberg
gptkb:Hans_Trefousse
gptkb:Hans_W._Gatzke
gptkb:Hans_Zimmermann
gptkb:John_Dolibois
gptkb:Martin_Sellinger
gptkb:Murray_Polner
gptkb:Paul_Fussell
gptkb:Ralph_G._Neppel
gptkb:Richard_Schifter
gptkb:Richard_Sonnenfeldt
gptkb:Richard_W._Sonnenfeldt
gptkb:Siegfried_Halbreich
gptkb:Victor_Brombert
gptkb:Walter_H._Haeussermann
gptkb:Werner_Angress
gptkb:Hans_Kohn
gptkb:Wolfgang_Leonhard
gptkbp:role psychological operations
counter-propaganda
analysis of enemy order of battle
debriefing of defectors
frontline intelligence gathering
interrogation of German prisoners
support for Allied occupation authorities
support for Nuremberg Trials
translation of captured documents
gptkbp:specializesIn military intelligence
counterintelligence
interrogation
psychological warfare
gptkbp:trainer gptkb:Camp_Ritchie
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Guy_Stern
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7