Elina Powell

Elina Powell

A black nurse named Elina Powell who served during World War 2 was assigned to work at a POW camp, like most African-American nurses at the time. She fell in love with a German Prisoner Of War named Frederick Albert there. They married and had children despite it being illegal in both the U.S and Germany during this time period.

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