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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

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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