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
Suffolk Reserves
Superior Rotary Club of Florence, Arizona
Taylor, Hope
Third Reich. See Germany, Nazi (Hitler’s Third Reich)
39th United States Colored Troops (USCT) Regiment Infantry
Thoms, Adah
366th Infantry Regiment (U.S. Army)
368th Infantry Regiment (U.S. Army)
Tomblin, Barbara Brooks
Treaty of Versailles
Truman, Harry
tuberculosis epidemic
Tucson, Arizona
Tuskegee Institute nursing training course
Tutsek, Charlotte Albert
on childhood with brother Frederick
on Elinor and Frederick’s life in Germany
on Frederick’s postwar return to Europe
on growing up under the Third Reich
on her father
marriage
on parents’ discipline and emotional remoteness
in postwar Vienna
25th Infantry (U.S. Army)
Underground Railroad
U.S. Armed Forces Radio
U.S. Army Nurse Corps. See black army nurses of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps
U.S. Public Health Service
V-Discs (records for U.S. military personnel)
Veitscher Magnesitwerke
Vienna, Austria
Albert family’s relocation to
postwar
Village Creek community (South Norwalk, Connecticut)
Vogelbeck, Germany
Walter Baker & Company (Milton, Massachusetts)
Weimar Republic
Weiskircher, Captain (German POW at Camp Florence)
White, Walter
Wilcox, Roger
Wilhelm, Kurt
Wilkins, Roy
Wollaston, Massachusetts
Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAC)
Woolworth’s department store (Phoenix, Arizona)
World War I
black nurses
black soldiers
German POWS detained in U.S.
Germany and the war’s aftermath
Lawrence Powell’s service
World War II
American war preparedness efforts
Americans’ service
black soldiers
end of
Hitler’s occupation of Poland
northern Africa campaigns
nursing shortage and proposed conscription
Pearl Harbor attack
postwar Germany
postwar process of returning POWs to Europe
postwar return of American soldiers
POW statistics
See also black army nurses of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps
X, Malcolm
Yank (army weekly newspaper)
Young, Charles
Ziegler, Adolf
Zürn, Paul
About the Author
About the Author
Previously an editor at Town & Country magazine, Alexis Clark is a freelance journalist who has written for the New York Times, Yahoo, The Root, Condé Nast Traveler, and other publications. An alumna of Spelman College, Clark holds master’s degrees from the University of Virginia and Columbia Journalism School, where she’s currently an adjunct professor. She lives in New York City.
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