Looking for information in my great grandfather, a member of the Ritchie Boys during WWII

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My great grandpa's name was Walter Steene (Originally Steiner, but changed when he moved to the US, some records it appears as Steene or Steiner). A few years ago my family found out that he was part of the Ritchie Boys after seeing him in a photo of the 60 minutes special. I've been researching him for a while, and have found his name on some lists but have been unable to find much more. My grandma recalls him possibly doing some translation or interrogation during the Nuremberg Trials as well. There is also a possibility that he is linked to the discovery of Hans Frank's diary. (A Walter A Stein is mentioned in the footnotes of the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, which my grandma discovered and believes to be her father). If anyone is able to help me find more records and information about Walter that would be great. I'm also happy to see anything about the discovery of Hans Frank's journal in general. Thank you!

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kenziek 
 
 Thank you for posting your request on History Hub! 
 
 If you have not done so already, we suggest that you request a copy of your grandfather&rsquo;s Official Military Personnel File (OMPF) , which should be in the custody of NARA's National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) in St. Louis. In many cases where Army and Air Force personnel records were destroyed in the 1973 fire , proof of service can be provided from other records such as morning reports, payrolls, and military orders, and a certificate of military service will be issued. Please complete a GSA Standard Form 180 and mail it to NARA's National Personnel Records Center, (Military Personnel Records), 1 Archives Drive, St. Louis, MO 63138-1002. Veterans and next of kin of deceased veterans also may use eVetRecs to request records. See eVetRecs Help for instructions. If there is any information requested by the form that you do not know, you may omit it or provide estimates (such as for dates), but the more information you provide, the easier it will be to locate the correct file if it survived the fire. For more information see Official Military Personnel Files (OMPF), Archival Records Requests . 
 
 For a complete copy of a personnel file, in Section II, on the line for "Other" (Specify), write "Complete copy of every page of personnel file - not an extract." 
 
 Archival OMPFs may also be requested by visiting the Archival Research Room at the National Archives at St. Louis . Please see the linked web pages for more information. Please email stlarr.archives@nara.gov for further assistance prior to making an appointment. 
 
 Next, we searched the National Archives Catalog and located the series Training Records of the Military Intelligence Training Center, Camp Ritchie, Maryland, 1942-1946 (entry NM-84 207) 
 in the Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs (Record Group 165) that may contain some relevant information. These records are indexed by the series Card Files Relating to Training Records of the Military Intelligence Training Center, Camp Ritchie, Maryland, 1942-1946 in Record Group 165. We also located the General Records, 1942-1946 Military Intelligence Training Center, Camp Ritchie, MD in the Records of the Army Staff (Record Group 319) and the series Project Decimal Files, 1941-1945 in Record Group 319 that contain information related to Camp Ritchie and the Military Intelligence Division. These records have not been digitized. Please contact the National Archives at College Park - Textual Reference (RDT2) at archives2reference@nara.gov for access to these and similar records. A brief history of Camp Ritchie is available in the Catalog, too. 
 
 Finally, we recommend that you review these previous History Hub discussions related to the "Ritchie Boys" for more information about potentially relevant resources. 
 
 We invite you to continue the conversation with community members on History Hub, but should you have follow up questions for the staff at Archives II, please email us at archives2reference@nara.gov so that we can assist you further. 
 
 We hope this is helpful for your research! 
 
 Sincerely, 
 
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