Back Enemies in Love Save as PDF
Chapters (19)
  1. Title Page
  2. Dedication
  3. Author’s Note
  4. Introduction
  5. 1. Elinor
  6. 2. Frederick
  7. 3. Fighting Hitler and Jim Crow
  8. 4. German POWs in the United States
  9. 5. Prisoners and Nurses
  10. 6. A Forbidden Romance
  11. 7. End of War
  12. 8. An Uncertain Future
  13. 9. Searching for Acceptance
  14. 10. Finally Home
  15. Postscript
  16. Acknowledgments
  17. Notes
  18. Index
  19. About the Author

Germany, postwar

African Americans and Germans in

American occupation

civilian deaths

concentration camps

devastation

Elinor and Frederick’s residence in Göttingen

German immigration to the U.S.

mixed-race children (“brown babies” or mischlingskinder)

POWs’ return to

racial discrimination against black soldiers

racial prejudice against mixed-race couples

G.I. Nightingales: The Army Nurse Corps in World War II (Tomblin)

Gillespie, Dizzy

Girl Scouts of America

Göttingen, Germany

Elinor and Frederick’s residence at the Albert home

Jews of

right-wing ideas and racism

Grammer, Mabel

Grammer, Oscar

Great Britain

black nurses assigned to English hospitals

German POWs and postwar labor

POW agreement with U.S.

Great Depression

Great German Art Exhibition

Great Migration

Hackbarth, Karl-Heinz

Harlem, New York

race riots (1943)

tuberculosis epidemic

Harlem Renaissance

Haus, Fritz

Hayden, Carl

Hicks, Ora

Hitler, Adolf

the Alberts and

and “degenerate art,”

occupation of Poland

POWs’ attitudes toward

rise of

suicide

See also Germany, Nazi (Hitler’s Third Reich)

Hitler Youth

Holiday, Billie

Hoover, J. Edgar

Horne, Lena

Hotel Braddock (Harlem)

House Military Affairs Committee

Howard University (Washington, D.C.)

Immigration and Naturalization Act (1924)

immigration to the U.S., postwar German

International Red Cross

interracial (mixed-race) couples

Elinor and Frederick’s challenges as mixed-race family

Gallup poll of white Americans’ opinions on (1958)

interracial marriage laws

landlords, mortgages, and housing restrictions

mixed-race children in the U.S.

obtaining life insurance

in postwar occupied Germany

prejudicial treatment in postwar America

prejudicial treatment in postwar Germany

school enrollment and segregation in Morton, Pennsylvania

Village Creek community in South Norwalk, Connecticut

Italian prisoners of war (POWs)

jazz music

in the Albert family household

black musicians

Chris Albert’s career

Frederick’s passion for

Hitler’s opinion of

V-Discs and U.S. military personnel

Jenkins, Dorothy

Jim Crow system. See racial discrimination and segregation (Jim Crow laws)

Johnson, Joe

Kentucky

King, Martin Luther, Jr.

Kirk, Norman T.

labor unions

Lammersdorf, Hans

Lincoln School for Nurses (Bronx, New York)

Little, Robert

Littlefield, Samuel

Louis, Joe

Louisville, Kentucky

lynchings

Magee, James

Magma-Arizona Railroad Company

Mahoney, Mary Eliza

March on Washington

“marriage bars”

Massachusetts Historical Commission

May, Andrew J.

May Bill

Media, Pennsylvania

Miller Stuart, Oneida

Milton, Massachusetts

Gladys Powell’s community work

history

integrated Girl Scouting

Littlefield/Powell house on Granite Place

Powell family

Powell’s Emerson Road house

racial tolerance and progressiveness

Milton High School

Milton Record

mischlingskinder (“brown babies”)

mixed-race children

(“brown babies” or mischlingskinder) in post-occupation Germany

school enrollment and segregation in Morton, Pennsylvania

Stephen Albert’s experiences

Mögel, Friedrich

Montgomery, Bernard

Moore, Gwyneth Blessitt

assistance with Frederick’s immigration to the U.S.

and Elinor and Frederick’s relationship at Camp Florence

experiences of discrimination and treatment at Camp Florence

on German POWs’ kindness toward black nurses

postwar

Morton School Board (Morton, Pennsylvania)

NACGN. See National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN)

Nash Engineering Company

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

Boston branch

and Elinor’s stand on school segregation

National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN)

National Council of Negro Women