Army’s Hitler boot camp training manual revealed

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During the height of World War II, when thousands of troops were learning intelligence craft at Camp Ritchie in central Maryland, a much smaller corps of several hundred was being trained for something far more dangerous.

Within the facility’s Military Intelligence Training Center that produced 19,600 intelligence agents known as the “Ritchie Boys,” a group of several hundred were practicing to embed with the Nazis as spies.

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