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struggle4progress

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Thu Sep 18, 2025, 10:52 PM Sep 18

Captured German Nurses Shocked By American Medical Abundance [View all]

the untold story of German Red Cross nurses captured during World War II who experienced profound ideological transformation while working in American military hospitals. This historically documented account reveals how DRK-Schwestern like Iron Cross recipients Ilse Schulz and Grete Fock, captured at Cherbourg and in North Africa between 1943-1945, witnessed American medical abundance that shattered Nazi propaganda about Allied weakness. Through verified firsthand accounts from the 45th Evacuation Hospital, Camp Opelika, and Glennan General Hospital, learn how German nurses trained in racial medicine encountered revolutionary treatments including penicillin, blood plasma banking, and advanced surgical techniques while treating POWs under American supervision. This 16,000-word historical documentary explores how 371,683 German POWs in American custody, including medical personnel across 200+ facilities, experienced medical care that contradicted everything they believed about democracy, ultimately transforming enemy nurses into advocates for humanitarian medicine who would rebuild post-war Germany's healthcare system. Based on military archives, Geneva Convention records, and documented testimonies, this video reveals how American medical superiority achieved what military victory alone couldn't: the complete ideological conversion of Nazi medical personnel through the simple daily practice of scientific, compassionate medicine that treated all patients—even enemies—with equal dignity.

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