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The Military Intelligence Training Center and the war against Nazism

AS AMERICAN MILITARY forces approached Germany in 1944, most soldiers didn’t know what to expect as they prepared to confront the Nazi enemy for the first time. But those among them who had recently emigrated from Germany were back on familiar ground, and understandably viewed their unusual return to their former homeland with mixed feelings. The numbers of these recent emigr es were significant. According to the US Military History Institute, thirtythree thousand German-born members of the US armed forces during the Second World War were recent emigr es; of this number, slightly less than half were naturalized when they entered the armed forces. Their road back to Germany was far from easy for these men. Their foreign backgrounds made it difficult for them to enter the army and to find acceptance once they were admitted. About two thousand found their niche in military intelligence, where their talents and backgrounds were put to good use. Their linguistic talents, knowledge about German customs and culture—coupled with their training at the Military Intelligence Training Center at Camp Ritchie, Maryland—made them a powerful and heretofore virtually unheralded weapon