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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 Elizabeth Powell was an African-American military nurse. Frederick Albert was a German prisoner of war. Their paths crossed in Arizona in 1944.
The German POW Freidrich Albert (left) worked in the kitchen and wooed nurse Elinor Powell (right) with secretly made wiener schnitzel and apple strudel. One glance, and the young soldier...
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.
- Aly Walansky
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...
15 de may. de 2018 · Elinor, like many other black nurses in the Army Nurse Corps, was tasked with caring for German POWs—men who represented Hitler’s racist regime of white supremacy.
27 de may. de 2018 · So how did Elinor and her future husband, Frederick Albert, meet? They met at a prisoner of war camp in Florence, Arizona. The closest city was Phoenix, which is about an hour and a half away.
