The Ritchie Boys: The Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned to Fight Hitler

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Bruce Henderson. The Ritchie Boys: The Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned to Fight Hitler

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Contents

Introduction

Prologue

GERMANY 1938

PART ONE

1

SAVING THE CHILDREN

2

ESCAPING THE NAZIS

3

A PLACE TO CALL HOME

PART TWO

4

CAMP RITCHIE

5

GOING BACK

6

NORMANDY

7

THE BREAKOUT

8

HOLLAND

9

THE FORESTS

10

RETURN TO DEUTSCHLAND

PART THREE

11

THE CAMPS

12

DENAZIFICATION

13

GOING HOME

1. SAVING THE CHILDREN

2. ESCAPING THE NAZIS

3. A PLACE TO CALL HOME

4. CAMP RITCHIE

5. GOING BACK

6. NORMANDY

7. THE BREAKOUT

8. HOLLAND

9. THE FORESTS

10. RETURN TO DEUTSCHLAND

11. THE CAMPS

12. DENAZIFICATION

Dramatis Personae

Acknowledgments

Sources

Appendix

THE RITCHIE BOYS

Bibliography

About the Author

ALSO BY BRUCE HENDERSON

About the Publishers

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For the Jews of Josbach, even their traditional Saturday morning stroll to the synagogue in neighboring Halsdorf had become unsafe. Whenever a flour-mill operator saw them approaching, he released his guard dogs with the command: “Los, fass die Juden!” (Go, get the Jews!) After several incidents, the procession of well-dressed men, women, and children started taking the long way around to bypass the mill.

Military convoys rattled through town almost daily. Once, a group of SA brownshirts stopped and began chanting, “When Jewish blood flows from the knife, that time will be so much better!” A pack of Hitler Youth rode through town on bikes, stoning stores with Jewish names and smashing windows. Even longtime customers were afraid to be seen patronizing Josbach’s Jewish merchants.

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