Chapters (19)
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Author’s Note
- Introduction
- 1. Elinor
- 2. Frederick
- 3. Fighting Hitler and Jim Crow
- 4. German POWs in the United States
- 5. Prisoners and Nurses
- 6. A Forbidden Romance
- 7. End of War
- 8. An Uncertain Future
- 9. Searching for Acceptance
- 10. Finally Home
- Postscript
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author
21. Hope Taylor interview, October 24, 2014.
22. Ibid.; Chris Albert interview, June 29, 2012.
23. Pamela Ballard interview, May 8, 2012.
24. In 1967, the Supreme Court ruled that anti-miscegenation laws banning interracial marriages were unconstitutional in Loving v. Virginia.
25. Chris Albert interview, May 8, 2012.
26. Alethea Felton interview, April 7, 2013.
27. Hope Taylor interview, October 24, 2014.
28. Chris Albert interview, June 29, 2012.
29. Chris Albert interview. May 7, 2012 and August 17, 2012.
30. Pepperidge Farm ad for new apple pie tart, Life, May 1, 1970. Frederick Albert ran product development at Pepperidge Farm during this time. The Pepperidge Farm archivist couldn’t confirm which recipes Frederick specifically created.
31. Charlotte Tutsek interview, November 30, 2015.
Postscript
1. Chris Albert interview, August 17, 2012.
2. Stephen Albert interview, June 29, 2012.
Index
Index
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Academy of Fine Arts (Vienna)
Albert, Charlotte. See Tutsek, Charlotte Albert
Albert, Christopher Wilhelm Farrow (“Chris”)
birth
childhood
experiences as mixed-race child
on father’s love of jazz music
on father’s wartime story
as jazz musician
on mother
on relationship with his father
Albert, Elinor Elizabeth Powell
as army nurse at Camp Florence
basic training at Fort Huachuca
cooking skills
death
decision to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps
early career aspirations
early feelings for Frederick
experiences of racism and discrimination
family and early life in Milton, Massachusetts
family life in Village Creek community
family role as stay-at-home mother
first pregnancy and childbirth
gardening hobby
marital problems and Frederick’s infidelity
married life and challenges of being a mixed-race family
married life and frequent moves
married life in Germany
married life in the U.S.
nursing school in New York City
physical appearance
relationship with Frederick at Camp Florence
relationship with mother Gladys
second pregnancy and childbirth
sociability, confidence, and quick wit
war’s end and temporary separation from Frederick
Albert, Frederick Karl Josef
artistic interests
boating/sailing hobby
Camp Florence guards’ beating of
Camp Florence kitchen job
at Camp Florence POW camp
capture as POW in Italy and detention
culinary school and baking career
death
early feelings for Elinor
and Elinor’s first pregnancy
employment and career struggles
employment with father’s company
English language proficiency
feelings for African American people
financial worries
German childhood and young adulthood
German family
German military service
infidelity and adultery
jazz music interests
married life and challenges of being a mixed-race family
married life and frequent moves
married life and role as sole family provider
married life in Germany
married life in the U.S.
parents’ response to marriage
physical appearance
postwar immigration to the U.S.
postwar return to Europe
relationship with Elinor at Camp Florence
relationship with father Karl
relationship with his sons
relationship with mother Margarete
romance with Charlotte’s landlady
social awkwardness and emotional reticence
Albert, Karl (Frederick’s father)
business career
coldness and detachment from family
death
extramarital affairs
Frederick and Elinor’s residence with
and Frederick’s marriage to Elinor
German nationalism
and postwar Europe
Albert, Margarete (Frederick’s mother)
death
Frederick and Elinor’s residence with