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Despite this, Powell fell in love with a German prisoner, Frederick (German: Friedrich) Albert, who was a Luftwaffe medic from Vienna who had been captured in Italy. This was incredibly risky, as such a relationship could get her court-martialled. Powell met Albert in the mess hall, where he was assigned to work as a cook.
- 2005 (aged 83–84)
- 1921, Milton, Massachusetts, U.S.
15 de may. de 2013 · Elinor Powell Albert was a nurse who tended to German P.O.W.'s at a camp in Arizona during World War II. She met her husband, Frederick Albert, while he was a prisoner in the camp. Credit...
But Friedrich Albert had it right: Elinor Powell was the girl of his jazz-drenched dreams. Their secret romance began, for her, as a rebellion against the segregated Army’s racism — and...
15 de may. de 2018 · Elinor remained at POW Camp Florence for the duration of the war, and fell in love with a German prisoner, Frederick Albert. While fellow Americans humiliated her with segregation, a German,...
11 de nov. de 2019 · In the book, Clark tells the little-known (but true!) story of Elinor Powell, a black army nurse who met and later married Frederick Albert, a German prisoner of war. She had to fight just to be a nurse. Elinor Elizabeth Powell came from Milton, Mass – just outside of Boston.
17 de jun. de 2018 · During World War II, Elinor Powell, an African American nurse, joined the racially segregated army in Jim Crow-era Arizona. The discrimination she faced compounded after she fell in love with...
20 de nov. de 2022 · Like a gemstone, or all those radioactive boars that have risen from the Chernobyl disaster. Or the time when African-American nurse Elinor Powell fell in love with Frederick Albert—a German prisoner of war—in Arizona in 1944. The lesson here is twofold: First, don’t eat any boar you catch in Central Europe.
