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“Enemies in Love”: An Unlikely Romance Between a Black Nurse and a German POW

May 5, 2018

Today, one in six newlyweds marry someone outside their race. It’s a big increase from the landmark 1967 Supreme Court ruling, Loving V. Virginia, which legalized interracial marriage. But two decades before that, there was another forbidden love story about a couple who gave it all up for love and struggled to find acceptance. Soledad O’Brien sits down with journalist Alexis Clark, the author of “Enemies in Love”, who uncovered the story of an African-American nurse, a German prisoner of war and an unlikely romance in an Arizona POW camp during WWII.

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