Talk:Ritchie Boys

message: The page says:  "After that there were no veteran reunions or similar events, as World War II had only been a short period in the lives of most of the soldiers." which strikes me as rather foolish as WWI was a short period in the lives of other groups of soldiers, too, but there have been veteran reunions for many other divisions.```` Steph
I am very familiar with the story of Camp Ritchie and the Ritchie Boys. The reason that there were not reunions of veterans of Camp Ritchie was that they were not necessarily part of a single military unit or division during the course of the war and they had been trained for very specialized duties. Because of their specialized training in military intelligence at Camp Ritchie, Ritchie Boys were assigned to different divisional headquarters to work with the G-2 staff on various activities such as document translation, photo interpretation, psychological operations, interrogations of POWs, mobile field communications, etc. As such they frequently moved to different divisions according to the needs for these specialized services.
Let me share an example with you.
My late Father trained at Camp Ritchie and arrived in the ETO shortly before the Battle of the Bulge where he joined the 84th Infantry Division. The 84th was formed with recruits mostly from Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, Arkansas and California. My Dad was a German-Jewish immigrant who settled in Pennsylvania. He served with the 84th Infantry on IPW Team 141 until March 1945 when their team was transferred to the 16th Armored Division for service in Germany and Czechoslovakia. While he was very proud of his military service, most of his time was spent with his small IPW team. 
Incidentally, there was a reunion of Ritchie veterans in Farmington Hills, MI, in July 2011 (http://patch.com/michigan/farmington-mi/new-holocaust-center-exhibit-honors-world-war-iis-ritchie-boys) and again in Washington, DC in 2012 (http://www.npr.org/2012/06/18/155308622/ww-iis-ritchie-boys-were-a-key-intelligence-group). There are a lot of stories and articles about the two reunions.
Bernielubran (talk) 21:51, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: While Jewish emigration was permitted by the Nazis until 1941, in fact, virtually all fled Nazi Germany, not because the Nazis "ousted" them, but because they were escaping the escalating threat against them (such as the "Nuremberg" laws or Reichsbürgergesetz and Kristallnacht, which occured 70 years ago last night). Mikebe (talk) 13:57, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: "ousted by the Nazis"?

message: According to records at the National Archives, approximately 20,000 servicemen took courses at Camp Ritchie (11,637 graduated the main 8-week course). Based on my years of researching the records and talking to Ritchie Boys, I believe a more accurate and informative Wikipedia page is needed. Revision Follows. (Note: I'm posting this for my father who is the researcher.)72.81.191.97 (talk) 14:44, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed Revision 

message: I have spent more than 10 years researching the Ritchie Boys and have written a historical novel that closely follows the true story of one Ritchie Boy.  I now give talks about the Ritchie Boys at museums, libraries, and for veterans' organizations. I also have an information page about the Ritchie Boys on my web-site and a regular blog that sometimes posts articles that share information about specific Ritchie Boys and their training at Camp Ritchie.  For this reason, I feel my website, especially the Ritchie Boy page, should be added to the list of references at the bottom of the Ritchie Boy article on Wikipedia. http://www.klangslattery.com/ritchie-boys
I also feel the article could use much improvement, especially as per the message above from the son of Dan Gross, an expert on all that pertains to the Ritchie Boys, who they were and what they did in WWII. What can be done to improve this article. Why has it not yet been improved since the message above was posted a year ago? I did make a few edits, but am not sure how to add references and am loath to make major changes without a better understanding of how to do it to meet Wikipedia guidelines.  How can I get help with this process?  I would be willing to upgrade the article if I can get some editorial help on how to go about it.    
LangSlattery (talk) 01:52, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  /* External links */  

message: I've removed Philip Johnson's name.  Despite David Rockefeller's sighting of him at Ritchie, the U.S. Army excluded Johnson from any intelligence work -- or any significant work at all -- because of his Fascist activities.  Full details in the standard Schulte biography.  To call him a Ritchie Boy would not be accurate. --Lockley (talk) 21:59, 29 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Philip Johnson 

message: I have no experience editing Wikipedia beyond an ill-advised edit at age 12. However, I noticed that the link on this page for Gardner Botsford leads to the page of Janet Malcolm. I thought it would be appropriate to mention it here. 2601:41:4381:4820:AC46:E27:17AA:1F64 (talk) 03:35, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed, thanks. Dan Bloch (talk) 04:29, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link issue 

message: Paul Fairbrook (Paul Schönbach): taz vom Freitag, 31.3. (Seite 4-5), „Sieger, aber nicht auf dem Schlachtfeld“ von Klaus Hillenbrand, 
„Paul Fairbrook war nach seiner Flucht vor den Nazis Teil einer geheimen US-Armeeeinheit“: 
https://www.taz.de/!5921532 Mobil-Sockenpuppe (talk) 06:54, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interview with Paul Fairbrook (German)