Enemies in Love : : a German Pow, a Black Nurse, and an Unlikely Romance

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Call Number: Black Studies 940.547 Cl
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Elinor -- Frederick -- Fighting Hitler and Jim Crow -- German POWs in the United States -- Prisoners and nurses -- A forbidden romance -- End of war -- An uncertain future -- Searching for acceptance -- Finally home.
"This is the nonfiction love story of Elinor Powell, an African American army nurse, and Frederick Albert, a German prisoner of war. The two met when black army nurses were put in regular contact with German POWs who were detained in the United States during World War II, an unlikely and little-discussed circumstance during one of the most documented periods in history"-- Provided by publisher.

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Unique His/Her-Story-Cal True Romance submitted by ekjensen on July 8, 2018, 4:34pm This book is an inviting story about a man and woman from fundamentally different cultures who fall in love at difficult moment in history, World War II. The book is also full interesting and sad facts about prejudice and frustrations for African Americans/Blacks/Negroes in the military, in nursing schools, in housing markets in the Northeast, in Jim Crow South and Southwest with counter play with Nazi and post war Germany, and the dysfunction of the family the German POW. One part of the narrative that is lacking (with needed detail) is what happens to the man and woman from their middle years until their deaths.