Cascade may be a small community nestled in the mountains, but what happened there 75 years ago helped changed the world. Guy Stern fled Nazi Germany in 1937 as a young man of 15. He left behind his parents and two siblings. “I made efforts to get the papers for my family to emigrate and I almost succeeded, but in the end it did not work,” said Stern in an interview with the Waynesboro Record Herald. Stern’s family eventually perished in the Holocaust. Meanwhile, Stern attended St. Louis University and was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1942. Only a few months after his basic training in Texas, he received secret orders to transfer to Camp Ritchie in 1943. Because of his German heritage, he had been selected as part of a military intelligence training program. Using the knowledge of Read more…