Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler

Enough Materiel for a Series of WWII Movies The second most astonishing thing about this account – after deducing that someone (or doubtless several highly-placed someones) in the bowels of the Big Green Army Machine in the early days of WWII had the good sense and forethought to utilize that very specialized human capital presented to the US Army in the form of young male German-Jewish refugees in the most useful possible manner – is t. Excellent history Jill Meyer I think most readers of WW2 histories know a bit about the American and British soldiers who translated for the Allies in occupied Germany after the war. These men often did more than just interpret; many were hunters of war criminals and did other investigative work. Most of these men - native German speakers - were Jewish and had left Germany in the 1930's and early 1940's for safety in the United State. "True Stories of World War II" according to Letta Meinen. Sons and SoldiersThis book Sons and Soldiers – The United States Story of the Jews who Escaped the Natzis and Returned with the U. S. Army to Fight Hitler by Bruce Henderson was a different play on World War II. I found it very fascinating and loved the story of each individual of how they escaped Germany to find their way to the United States. It was heart breaking to read how Jewish families set t

Joining the ranks of Unbroken, Band of Brothers, and The Boys in the Boat, the little-known saga of young German Jews, dubbed the Ritchie Boys, who fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s, came of age in America, and returned to Europe at enormous personal risk as members of the US Army to play a key role in the Allied victory. Though they knew what the Nazis would do to them if they were captured, the Ritchie Boys eagerly joined the fight to defeat Hitler. Bruce Henderson draws on personal interviews with many surviving veterans and extensive archival research to bring this never-before-told chapter of the Second World War to light. Sons and Soldiers is an epic story of