German POWs Expected Gestapo Methods The American Asking the Questions Had Fled Hitler

German prisoners of war had grown up under a secret police that questioned people with a cane and a dark cell, and some expected the same from their captors. This is the record of who actually sat across the table: Jewish refugees like Guy Stern of Hildesheim, who had fled Hitler and lost their families to him. Sources: John Hammond Moore, "Getting Fritz to Talk", Virginia Quarterly Review, 1978 National WWII Museum, oral history of Guy Stern 60 Minutes, CBS News, "The Ritchie Boys", 2021 and 2022 Claire Barrett, "Guy Stern: War of Words", HistoryNet, 2020 National Park Service, "POWs and Intel at Fort Hunt in World War II" Nuremberg document 1531-PS, Avalon Project, Yale Law School U.S. Army Intelligence Bulletin, captured German instructions in case of capture, 1942 Geneva Convention of 1929, Article 5 U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, oral history of Helmut von Schweitzer, 2020 CHAPTERS 0:00 A Wired Room Outside Washington 3:04 What the German Manuals Warned 5:42 The Gestapo's Own Rules 10:09 The Questioner Propaganda Promised 12:19 A Boy from Hildesheim 15:13 From Enemy Alien to Soldier 17:15 Camp Ritchie 22:11 Team 41 in Normandy 24:20 A Face from the Old Sports Club 25:59 Fort Hunt 29:19 What the Hidden Microphones Heard 33:56 A Prisoner's Side of the Table 35:53 The Night Roosevelt Died 37:17 Commissar Krukov 43:07 The Men Who Never Talked 44:33 The Hardest Case 46:29 Coming Home to Hildesheim 49:56 The Last Reunion at Fort Hunt