Pioneer Press Review
September 14, 2026
After [his induction into the US Army] Paul was able to help the Jewish [and American] cause by becoming part of the intelligence group called “the Ritchie Boys” who helped interrogate Nazi prisoners. This secret U.S. military intelligence unit, composed mostly of Jewish refugees, was trained at Camp Ritchie, Md. Later in life Paul sought justice by working for reparations for Jews who had lost everything under the Third Reich. “He understood that defeating fascism is not a one-time victory; it is generational work,” Mayer writes of his father. Pioneer Press Review