Some of them were trained as spies and some of them went on to careers as spies Jon Wertheim: What you describe, it almost sounds like these were precursors to CIA agents.ĭavid Frey: They were in fact. and I said "may I know where I'm going?" and he said "no, military secret".ĭavid Frey: It was a very broad range. Guy Stern: I was called to the company office and told you're shipping out. Jon Wertheim: How did you find out you were going to go to Camp Ritchie?
You really have to understand it helps to have been born in Germany in order to – in order to do a good job.īoth refugees like Fairbrook and Stern, as well as a number of American born recruits with requisite language skills, were drafted into the Army and sent to Camp Ritchie. Paul Fairbrook: You really know an awful lot of the subtleties when you're having a conversation with another German and we were able to find out things out in their answers that enabled us to ask more questions. And that's what the key to the success was Paul Fairbrook: You can learn to shoot a rifle in 6 months but you can't learn fluent German in 6 months. But within a few months the government realized these so-called enemy aliens could be a valuable resource in the war. We were delighted to get a chance to do something for the United States.Īt the time though, the military wouldn't take volunteers who weren't born in the U.S. And there's nothing that I wanted more is to get some revenge on Hitler who killed my uncles, and my aunts and my cousins and there was no question in my mind, and neither of all the men in Camp Ritchie. Jon Wertheim: Why did you want to enlist initially? His Jewish family left Germany in 1933 when he was 10. Now 97, Fairbrook is the former dean of the Culinary Institute of America. In New York, Paul Fairbrook had a similar impulse. Personal, of course, but also this country - I was really treated well. Guy Stern: I had an immediate visceral response to that and that was this is my war for many reasons.
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