The group known as the Ritchie Boys, made of several thousand young Germans and Austrians, nearly all Jews, had fled their native homelands before the war. After joining the US army, their knowledge of the German language and culture was crucial for counterintelligence, interrogation and psychological warfare. Elly Kleinman the president of Americare shares how the Ritchie Boys were often the only survivors of their families in Europe and  tells their stories about how during battle, they risked being shot by their fellow Americans because of their accents and feared of being captured by the Germans if discover that they were Jews.