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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. Though their presence...
When Black Nurses Were Relegated to Care for German POWs. Before President Truman desegregated the U.S. military on July 26, in 1948, Black nurses had fewer—and less...
Nov 11, 2019. A black Army nurse and a white German POW falling in love during World War II sounds like something out of an Oscar-bait movie – but it happened, and it shows a lot about the power of love overcoming even the most ugly and powerful of forces and boundaries.
By Alexis Clark. May 15, 2013 11:50 am. Comment. 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...
Mary Kay Linge. Published May 19, 2018, 10:08 a.m. ET. The German POW Freidrich Albert (left) worked in the kitchen and wooed nurse Elinor Powell (right) with secretly made wiener schnitzel...
Powell worked as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps based at POW Camp Florence, Arizona, where she was required to help German soldiers, including Nazis captured in Europe and Northern Africa, as black nurses were prohibited from treating white GIs until the last years of the war.
May 27, 20186:00 AM ET. By. Karen Grigsby Bates. Alexis Clark, author of Enemies in Love. Julie Skarratt. A love story between a black Army nurse and a white German POW during World War II?...
